The big advantage of vaginal laser therapy is that it isn’t estrogen. And if he or she isn’t comfortable helping you, ask them who can. You can start feeling better if you just let your doctor know. In my #1 Best Selling Book, The Estrogen Fix, I explain how it’s never too late to use vaginal estrogen because the estrogen window in the vagina never closes. If you are among the more than half of women in menopause and you have vaginal dryness, painful sex, feeling chafed and uncomfortable even while walking, or having repeated urinary tract infections, TELL YOUR DOCTOR. Sexual function significantly improved in both groups, and the doctors who examined the women thought the vaginal tissue in both groups appeared equally improved. The vaginal tissues looked significantly better with both, though there was a slightly more positive outcome in the vaginal estrogen group. They also asked how much sex improved – things like desire, comfort, arousal, and orgasm.īoth groups improved significantly. They then compared the improvement in the lining of the vagina (how much the vaginal lining thickened to look premenopausal at examination). Half the women randomly received vaginal laser treatment half randomly received vaginal estrogen. The investigators studies women between the ages of 50 and 65 years who were clearly in menopause for at least one year. Here’s what they did…įractional CO2 Vaginal Laser versus Vaginal Estrogen But this study looked at new versus old, high tech versus low tech, specialty treatment versus generalist treatment. Let me say that there are a lot of other treatments for vaginal dryness that I discuss in a prior article, so don’t think it has to be either one of these or the other.
What Can Be Done To Make Vaginal Dryness Better?įor those women who have summoned the courage to seek help, and for those doctors who are prepared to provide that help, what is the best treatment?Ī study published in the journal Menopause compared a newer high tech laser treatment of the vagina called fractional CO2 Vaginal Laser Therapy with one of the oldest and simple treatments – vaginal (also called local) estrogen. Surveys show that women think their doctors will be embarrassed (sometimes, but not usually, they’re right), and doctors don’t ask – doctors think it will take too long to discuss (sometimes it does, but it doesn’t have to if they simply acknowledge the problem and set up a future time for more discussion), or don’t have enough training (all too often this is sadly the case, especially if the main topic is problems in the bedroom). It’s a communication issue: Women don’t tell their doctors and doctors don’t ask their patients about it. If there is one best kept secret about menopause, it’s vaginal dryness.Įven though over half of all women between the ages of 51 and 60 are suffering, only about 7% are getting any treatment.
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