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Lichen Sclerosus: What’s Up With That Itch Down There?

I recently received a diagnosis for a problem I’d tried to silently manage for too long: vulvar itching. I put off going to the doctor until it was so intense it was keeping me up at night. The diagnosis came as a surprise because it’s something I had never heard of—lichen sclerosus...

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