Sex after Menopause -
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In fact, although I've titled this page sex after menopause, the problems with menopause and sex can, and frequently do, actually begin several year before menopause during that stage of our lives known as pre-menopause or peri-menopause.
There are several reasons that menopause sex can be more challenging for us as women than it is earlier in our lives.
But if you are willing to seek natural remedies for menopause to overcome those challenges until you experience natural menopause relief, menopause and sex can become one of the highlights of your life rather than something you struggle with, or perhaps, even dread.
But lets start at the beginning...
Problems with Sex after Menopause
Both personal experience and research have taught me there are two major problems we experience with sex after menopause.- The first may well be that you have no interest in sex. If this is your problem, please rest assured that there are simple straight forward solutions that will overcome it, but those solutions never require prescribed estrogen. Estrogen is not the hormone that increases a woman's libido, (sexual desire).
- The second is usually caused by drying, thinning, or a combination of both, in the epithelial (skin) tissues of the reproductive organs, and especially the vagina. This problem is called vaginal atrophy.
The result is frequently painful intimate relations, and if the condition becomes severe, menopause sex can actually result in bleeding and tearing of the vaginal tissues.
Needless to say, if you're struggling with this problem, you'll be avoiding sex after menopause, not enjoying it as the Creator intended.
Conventional Solutions for Problems with Menopause and Sex
Conventional doctors tend to prescribe estrogen for any menopausal problem a woman may encounter, and frequently it won't even be a natural estrogen but a synthetic hormone or one made from animals, horses, hormones not ours.But in most cases, an increase in estrogen won't fix the problems we have with menopause sex. In fact, more estrogen will almost always make these problems worse in the long term.
Why do I say this?
Because Estrogen Dominance is Key
Most of the symptoms we associate with menopause, including most problems with sex after menopause, are caused by a hormonal imbalance called estrogen dominance.This happens when we have too much estrogen in our bodies in ratio to progesterone. If this imbalance is not corrected, over time it will usually result in many serious health challenges, such as thyroid problems, gallbladder problems, and even female cancers.
Although estrogen does drop after menopause, according to Dr. Jerilynn Prior, a Canadian researcher and endocrinologist, progesterone drops up to 12 times more than estrogen leaving women in menopause with less than men in some cases.
Since progesterone is used by our bodies to make all the other steroid hormones, and is absolutely essential for good health, a level lower than what men normally have is a problem.
Natural Menopause Relief for Problems
with Sex after Menopause
The natural solution for a woman's loss of sexual desire is usually as easy as supplementing with a natural progesterone cream. For all the details about why this is the most effective solution as well as where it can be found please click on the preceding link to read the page about it. If supplementing with a natural progesterone cream doesn't solve the problem, Dr. Lee recommends you have your hormone levels checked to see if you possibly need to add a little natural testosterone as well.
Please understand, as a woman, you shouldn't supplement with testosterone without being sure that you actually have a deficiency first.
Low sexual desire is always caused by a lack of progesterone, or possibly testosterone, but never estrogen according to the experts.
The second problem is also frequently resolved by the use of a natural progesterone cream.
But there are a few cases where vaginal atrophy is actually a symptom of low estrogen levels, rather than of a hormonal imbalance.
If you've tried using natural progesterone and it hasn't resolved your symptoms, please be sure to click on the preceding link and read the entire page I've written about this problem.
Then if you do need an estrogen supplement to overcome this problem, be sure you don't let your doctor prescribe you a synthetic estrogen, or even the strongest and most dangerous of the natural estrogens in our bodies, estradiol.
The problem is most easily solved by using a estriol cream. It is the weakest of our natural estrogens, and it may also protect against female cancers, instead of feeding them, as estradiol is suspected of doing.
Natural Remedies for Menopause Symptoms
Will Improve Sex after Menopause
If you'd like to consult the experts about this, I highly recommend What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause (TM): The Breakthrough Book on Natural Hormone Balance
. This book, written by two experts in the field of women's health, is available from Amazon by clicking on the preceding link. If you can't afford to buy it, or don't want to keep it, you can usually get it through the public library if you are willing to wait awhile for them to get it in.
If you've been having problems with sex after menopause and you've been told "menopause sex just isn't the same as when you're younger"... or "menopause and sex just don't go well together", or some other such nonsense, take heart!
Problems with sex after menopause can be resolved, and when they are your intimate relations at this stage of life can be even more enjoyable and fulfilling then they were when you were younger.
Since there are so many important reasons to have a healthy sexual relationship with your husband, please don't let the problems or symptoms of menopause disrupt your enjoyment of this important part of your marriage.
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