Definition of Generalized Vulvodynia For the purposes of this report, we plan to use the definition of vulvodynia agreed upon at the 2003 meeting of the ISSVD: GV is a pain syndrome characterized by vulvar pain for at least 3-6 months duration with discomfort occurring in the absence of relevant infectious, inflammatory, or neoplastic findings and in the absence of specific clinically identifiable disorder of any kind (i.e., idiopathic). Patients with pain generally characterized as burning pain which is unprovoked, provoked or both and involving most of the vulva (not localized) will be offered enrollment. The pain can be constant or intermittent. Though intermittent symptoms are not part of the 2003 ISSVD criteria, we do plan to enroll patients with intermittent symptoms as we believe that intermittent symptoms may represent "flares" of IC. Further, patients with intermittent symptoms may have vulvodynia that had previously gone unrecognized.