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Atrophic Vaginitis -Major Problem!

by Anonymous

Editor's Note:The following is a question sent to me privately by one of my readers. I asked permission to post the email conversation here so that everyone could benefit.

Due to the private nature of the problem, the author will be listed as anonymous, and I'll refer to her as Ms. C.

Original Question
Hello,

Thank you for your info. I have atrophic vaginitis (vaginal atrophy). Sex is beyond painful. I am 45. I recently stopped taking the pill after 15 years. I am currently on estrace cream. No luck so far.

Regarding your friend you mentioned on yourVaginal Atrophy page: Did the progesterone cream fix the atrophy so she could have non painful sex again?

I would prefer using this over the estrace at his point but I am not really sure what to do. I have tried stretching with my fingers, devices, estrace creme, wild yam supplements - nothing is working. I am desperate to fix this and resume a normal sex life. Thank you for all your info on your site.


Answer:

Hi Ms. C:

I can understand why you'd rather keep this question a little private, but I'm sure there are many others wondering the same thing.

I'm not familiar with estrace cream. What are the ingredients? I will try to look it up and find out more about it, if I can.

In answer to your question, yes I believe using the progesterone cream did fix the symptoms of vaginal atrophy for her, but I don't believe her greatest difficulty was in having sexual relations.


She just had problems with itching and burning all the time.

Nonetheless, I would definitely get a high quality progesterone cream and use it for a month or two. That should be enough time to see if it will resolve the problems you're having.

If it doesn't help in that time, I would try to find a doctor who will prescribe an estriol cream for you. Estriol is the safest estrogen to use, and if progesterone doesn't resolve your symptoms, it will indicate that you do in fact have a problem with low estrogen.

If low estrogen is the problem, adding progesterone to your supplements won't fix it.

The doctors who are most open to prescribing natural hormones frequently advertise as using "bio-identical hormones". Also if you can find a naturalistic doctor, he or she might help too.



Unless you absolutely can't make time for it, I would highly recommend you read Dr. Lee's book, What Your Doctor May NOT Tell You About Premenopause. With your background using the pill, there is a lot of information and helpful details in that book that you will find helpful. You can get it at Amazon by clicking on the link to the side, or you could probably find it in any big local bookstore.

I hope this is of help to you. Please get in touch again when things get better and let me know what helped, so I can share with others. Also, if you have further questions, just let me know and I'll do my best to help.

To Your Improving Health
Sherilyn

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Ms. C's Response
by: Anonymous

Hi

Thank you for your help. Estrace cream is estradiol, similar to Premarin, but without the animal cruelty as it is plant based. My problems were incessant itching and burning and painful sex.

Actually I could not even have sex the first time I tried after a lengthy dry spell. I am single. It was beyond embarrassing. I have never had children so I did not get the benefit of stretching that way either.

I initially got the estrace for the itching and burning and it did nothing for that so I stopped using it. After the sex fiasco I started using it again as my doctor said it would fix the atrophy enough to have sex.

I used it for about 6 months with no improvement with any of my symptoms. So I stopped using the estrace as well.


I have been off the birth control pill for the past 17 years. I am 44 now - almost 45. I stopped taking the pill about a month ago and almost immediately the itching and burning stopped. I was shocked and thrilled.

I am still having trouble with sex though and that is why I asked about your friend. I am trying yoga for the sex problem and doing some inner stretching. Hopefully that will work.

After I read your article about estrogen dominance it all came together - I had too much estrogen in me - the pill and the cream. I had so many of the symptoms you listed on your site.

I then stumbled on an article that said that the pill - estrogen - also caused abnormal pap smears -cervical dysplasia. I have had a few come back abnormal over the past 10 years.

I always wondered why. I found the vitamin E - d-alpha tocopheral, not dl-alpha tocopheral would correct the repeat pap almost every time. I did have 2 colonoscopies before stumbling on the vitamin e fix. I was quite annoyed about this as my doctor insisted that I could take the pill indefinitely with nothing to worry about. He actually wanted to put me on a more estrogen dominant pill which thank God I did not try.

Clearly he was wrong on so many levels. I assume this is the same info other doctors tell women.

As of today, I have been off the pill for about 5 weeks and off the estrace for about 1 week. I feel a lot better. I wanted to write you back and tell you this as perhaps you can relay it to someone else.

I am going to try the progesterone cream on your site. I am NOT going to take any more estrogen in any form as I know now that caused all of my problems -itching, burning, painful sex, dysplasia - hopefully nothing else.


Thank you for you help. Feel free to pass on my info.

Thanks,

Ms. C

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