Thanks Melanie, I'm glad you've gotten a diagnosis, I didn't know that could be a problem, hopefully his advice helps improve things.

JIC any other girls are reading/read this thread in the future as having same problem I'll give you an update: In my case the pain very suddenly improved at the 5 month mark (as in it only stung so much on one side where I tore instead of both , and a couple of weeks later the other side drastically improved as well. I'd say I'm probably still a little more 'careful' then I used to be but TBH I think that's just habit now rather then necessary.

Might have just been time helping with the scar healing for me, or it could be because when I was complaining to my Dr about it she asked if I'd always been a bad scarer/slow healer (which I have) she did this survey they have which sent up red flags so she took a blood test as slow healing is associated with zinc deficiency, and I was REALLY low in zinc so started taking treble times the recommended dose of zinc at their recommendation - which was around that time. So that might have helped - so I recommend getting checked out by your Doc anyone with same situation.