Hi I'm 22 years old and experiencing agonizing symptoms that I can't understand. A few months ago I started waking up around 5am having to pee but after doing so I felt the symptoms of a bladder infection. After sitting on the toilet and drinking water for two hours the symptoms disappeared. Night after night this went on for about a week until I read that someone started taking ibuprofen before bed and it helped so for the past three months I have been taking not only ibuprofen before bed but urinary pain relief pills as well. HOWEVER whatever I have is back with a vengeance. The urinary pain pills seen to have no effect and I am once again stuck awake at 5am with symptoms that disappear within a few hours. I also have a burning sensation and swollen vaginal opening I guess you would call it and sex is very painful at first. I know this is NOT a bladder infection not is is BV since I had previously been treated for both. I just want to live a pain free life!