Silent, creeping narrowing of vaginal introitus
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I'm wondering whether it would be proactive to regularly dilate this opening (even with warm oily fingers). I've been abstaining from sex for a year – too painful. Silly me, I've been using a magnifying shaving mirror to inspect my undercarriage nightly and last night it occurred to me to look with a regular mirror. Whoa! I'm a lot narrower than I thought! About two fingers. What I've been noticing in my inspections has been the narrowing and elongation of my perineum. I took that to be a tightening of the flesh from repeated tearing. But now I see it's that the 'shore' of the perineum is sneaking up on the vagina. Like a beach getting wider as the lake's water level drops.
My goal (a modest one) is to always be able to pee. So I think I might make a practice of massaging – slightly stretching that circle every night when applying my oily stuff. Not at the same time as applying Dermovate/clobetasol.
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Barking Morrell1951
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Morrell1951 Barking
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About the women in care homes: we have this extremely old generation thanks to heart surgeries & meds and joint replacements. My sister's a palliative care nurse – she saw two really old ladies in the last few weeks who came into her care after vulvar squamous cell cancer preceded by lichen sclerosus. We will not be those old ladies, because we're speaking up and looking after ourselves.
john25364 Morrell1951
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Hi Morrell, you are right to be concerned and to be proactive is better than late treatment of this disorder. My wife's doctor recommended estrogen cream and dilation for her vagina, because menopause had left Heather with Vular Atrophy, she had narrowing of vaginal introitus, shrinking of labia minor (small lips) and clitoral shrinkage, not good news. She continues to use the cream and I assist daily by dilating her with my lubricated fingers for 10 minutes, we bought a small vacuum tube/pump which we use for 10 minutes daily to maintain her clitoral blood flow and engorgement. After 3 months Heather could not only resume her sex life but also had no discomfort, itching, or infections, no further shrinking of labia minora or clitoris, isnow normal. Just thought we'd share,,,,,Best of health to you, John