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Post Menopause, irritation/soreness just inside Vaginal opening....

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Toobusy
Toobusy

I am 4 yrs post menopause (56 yrs old).   In the past year, I seem to have developed an around just inside the vaginal opening at the bottom on both sides that is sore and feels like it's raw but it's normal looking.   It makes it uncomfortable to even insert yeast medication applicators.   

Is this something others have experienced as well?   

Is it part of Atrophy?

I can't use estrogen (high blood pressure) and wondered what other ideas are out there if this is part of Atrophy.

Thanks all....

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  • jenny29645
    jenny29645 Toobusy

    Posted

    Can u describe your burning? I have vestybuldynia, mostly provoked. Some r saying mona lisa can only help for atrophy, which i dont have that. Im trying amitriptyline now. Uggg exhausted, dry mouth and constapated.
    • barb85331
      barb85331 jenny29645

      Posted

      Not sure if you were asking me to describe the burning or “toobusy”

      You mentioned the Mona Lisa Touch Procedure so I will explain my symptoms. The burning sensation happened basically overnight. I had experience several what I thought were yeast infections and took Diflucan and symptoms seemed to ease. But this time the outside area just plain burned to the point that you didn’t want to wear any type of fitted pants. You wanted very loose fitting pants and preferred dresses?! And it still wasn’t comfortable- your mind never stopped thinking about the uncomfortable burning sensation. Bring intimate with your husband was totally out of the question also. Nothing helped ease the burn. Even ice packs were considered?!  My gynecologist also prescribed Testosterone cream in hopes that would help. It didn’t. I know I was going thru menopause with very irregular periods. I’m not sure if the Mona Lisa would help you but I know my doctor that did my procedure was very sure without any hesitation that it would help me when she examined me. Again I am 53 and  no longer have periods. 

    • Suki_girl
      Suki_girl jenny29645

      Posted

      HI Jenny. The side effects of the amitriptyline should die down after a few weeks. If you are struggling with them, try going up by 5mg at a time (cut the 10mg tablets in half). You need to be on 50-75mg a day for it to really work at helping with the pain. Have you seen my post “How I cured my vulvodynia” (I assume you are aware that vestibuldynia is a type of vulvodynia). In there I explain the multiple treatements I used to get pain free. Other women have posted on there their solutions to being pain free and some are in the process of trying the things I suggested and have begun to feel better.
    • angie45980
      angie45980 Suki_girl

      Posted

      Hi ski girl where would I find your piece on how you cured vulvodynia. I would be very interested to read it
    • jenny29645
      jenny29645 Suki_girl

      Posted

      I will have to look for your files. I cut my 25 mg amatroptolyin in half so i guess its about 12.5 today. Hopefullt i wont be so exhausted today.
    • Suki_girl
      Suki_girl angie45980

      Posted

      Use the search box at the top of the page. Enter “vulvodynia” into the search box. Click on vulval problems and you will see my post “how I cured my vulvodynia”.
    • Suki_girl
      Suki_girl jenny29645

      Posted

      Did you start in 10mg. The dr should have started you in the lowest dose, leave it for a couple of weeks for your body to adapt then up you to 20mg (or, if you experience side effects for more than a few days, 15mg by cutting one of the 10mg in half).
    • jenny29645
      jenny29645 Suki_girl

      Posted

      I cut the 25. Mg in half. So i guess its like 12.5. Still pretty tired in the morning on that but ill go along with it for now.
  • bobbie111
    bobbie111 Toobusy

    Posted

    I have been dealing with this so long. Its been awful.  And My vaginal opening constantly looks raw and irritated.Hurts to sit, walk, almost everything. The Dr told me, your face looks like a young woman still but your vagina looks 80... sad I had to have a hysterectomy in my late 20's so its only progressively gotten worse. Vagifem worked for about a year or 2 and now causes yeast infections & taking estrogen forever has been causing breast cancer complications so I have been doing a lot of reading. Today I bought bezwecken hydration cubes with minimal estradiol & dhea in them and they seem to have goos reviews. Why it has not posed up my my radar before with all the searching I don't know but Ill report back in a week or 2 and update. Its from the natural.com i thought it was a great prices especially compared to vagifem. I also got some boric acts suppositories to help with ph balance.  I am on a quest to fond what works or create it myself. I have a concoction of dhea, beeswax & some essential oils I will be experimenting with if these don't work. Maybe Ill invent something good smile

    Keep your chin up 

  • beverly52803
    beverly52803 Toobusy

    Posted

    I can't imagine a doctor saying anything so utterly insensitive. Surely he/she went into the wrong field. Hope you aren't still seeing the same one. 

  • yolanda11663
    yolanda11663 Toobusy

    Posted

    GOING THROUGH THE SAME, BACK AND FORTH GYNO, UTI YEAST BV ATROPHY,EVER SINCE HYSTERECTOMY. CANT TAKE HORMONES, NEED THIS TO END !
    • angie45980
      angie45980 yolanda11663

      Posted

      Oh you poor thing I know how awful it was before I got vagifem . There is a lot of other stuff out there but none worked for me I'm afraid but I do hope you find something x

    • yolanda11663
      yolanda11663 angie45980

      Posted

      Hope by now you got some relief Angie, for now I'm using Replens and have a steroid , yeast cream for outside irritatation when needed. Goes good then returns, will see how this plays out

  • ljp64
    ljp64 Toobusy

    Posted

    I feel your pain, I too suffer with VA, cane in very suddenly a year ago, I was 2.5 years post menopause and had been on HRT for a year, stupidly I had stopped using the local estogen as I was worried by using that AND HRT, even though the gynae had recommend.

    so sux mi this with no local estrogel, only the estrogel, and VA reared it’s ugky head.

    i thought it was yeast infection, but two treatments didn’t resolve it, I was on holiday at the time.

    so on my return from holiday, I went to see my doctor and was put back on estring (ring inserted into vagina that releases estrogel for 3 months)...this dud help a bit, but I was still sore and hirrubke prickly sensation that made me want to scratch.

    after much researching and reading, I decided to pay for Mona Lisa treatment, I started last September and had 4 treatments in total, to internal and external area, last one just before Christmas, after each treatment it took at least two weeks to feel a bit of improvement as tissues have to recover.

    following my final treatment, it took about 6 weeks for things to settle, i was questioning if I’d done the right thing!...nowtbings are much improved, but I still have an estring, and HRT and I have discovered emu oil, which really is so soothing, and helps to improve the skin...all this maintenance is necessary to keep things comfortable.

    i will have a top up one Mina Lisa treatment sometime this year, and hope to eventually be able to go annually for one treatment. 

    VA is a chronic condition, there is no quick fix, and less is more when it comes to lotions and potions, I have tried so many different things, but the most simple and pure have given the best results, emu oil I wouldn’t be without 

  • beverly52803
    beverly52803 Toobusy

    Posted

    Isn't it unusual to have so many Mona Lisa treatments? Are you being charged for each one or is your doctor charging for only the 3 initial treatments and the yearly one after that?

    Can you please share where you got the ML treatment and the amount you were charged? Despite being near a very busy medical hub with several teaching hospitals  we have very few doctors performing it.

    One more question, do your doctors expect you will have to stay on the hormone treatment?

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