Best Menopause Blog, Menopause treatment, Vaginal Dryness, Vaginal Estrogen, VAGINAL PAIN
Vaginal Anatomy The vagina is an amazing part of the body that changes with aging just as the rest of your body changes. During reproductive life, the walls of the vagina are lush, moist, and corrugated. That means they have lots of stretchy folds made from elastic...
Aging, Pelvic Prolapse, Pessary, Uterine Prolapse, VAGINAL PAIN
I was walking through the operating room one day when a cardiac surgeon stopped me and asked for help. “I’m about to do surgery on an older woman and we cannot get a urinary catheter into her bladder. Could you lend us a hand.” The...
Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause, GSM, menopause symptoms, Menopause treatment, Painful Sex, Vaginal Dryness, VAGINAL PAIN
It’s common. It’s painful. But nobody wants to talk about it – vaginal dryness and painful sex. But if you do have it, you’re not alone. Roughly half of women after menopause will have vaginal dryness or painful sex. Doctors call it Genitourinary...
Aging, Menopause, menopause symptoms, Menopause treatment, Pelvic Prolapse, Pessary, stress incontinence, VAGINAL PAIN
Feeling your internal organs dropping is an embarrassing and worrisome problem. The medical term is pelvic prolapse. Or you may have loss of urine when you cough, sneeze, or exercise. This is called stress incontinence. Many women will not share these problems with...
Aging, AMH, BRCA, Breast Cancer Treatment, Causes of Hot Flashes, Early Menopause, General Health, Hot Flashes, medication induced menopause, menopause symptoms, Menopause treatment, Mental Health, Premature Menopause, surgical menopause, Vaginal Dryness, VAGINAL PAIN
Menopause always comes with challenges. When you are 50ish, the symptoms come on gradually. But when you are younger and still have normal or relatively normal hormone levels, treatment causes an abrupt drop in those hormones, and that causes you to be catapulted into...
Breast Cancer, estrogen cream, Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause, Vaginal Dryness, VAGINAL PAIN, Weight Control, Women's Health
There’s a new medical term for an old and too familiar problem. It’s called Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause or GSM and it is the medical term for a group of symptoms that include dryness of the vagina and skin area outside the vagina, burning, and...
