Treatment for atrophic vaginitis to do or not to do?

I think in this situation you have to go with your gut.There are more natural therapies out there, and perhaps talking with a naturalpath doctor that has experience in womens health would be a great way to start. I am so sorry to hear about your sister, I can totally understand and relate when this type of disease runs in families you want to avoid anything that might trigger it or pit you at an even higher risk.

I use the equivalent to Vagifem, I use estrace cream. These are both weak forms and are low risk. Women who've had cancer have been known to use these. Very little gets in your blood stream. Oral hormones are a bigger risk. Breast cancer runs in my family..

AV only gets worse, not better. I have a multitude of issues associated with it, dryness, pH issues which cause yeast/bacterial infections, major bladder issues plus bladder prolapse.

I'm not sure how your doc prescribed it, but after the initial schedule you should be able to knock it down to once or twice a week.. it's great you're not symptomatic!

Obviously you have to do what you're comfortable with though. There are other treatments, but Im extremely happy with estrace cream..

Good Luck!

Thank you very much for replying to my question dear Takeyourtime, that is very helpful and you are right going with my gut feeling is important in things like this. I will talk to my homeopath and see what she says. Thanks again.

dear swan song, first and foremost I’m terribly sorry that you lost your sister to ovarian cancer, I cannot imagine how painful and difficult that was and I’m sorry, truly. A woman on this forum by the name of Gigi was talking about this product and a study that she read bu,t she forgot what magazine it was from. She spoke positively of it, but that’s all I can tell you. Maybe you can find her post. It was a study that showed women in nursing homes, elderly women, were having recurrent UTIs and it turned out that they needed more estrogen in their system because we need estrogen for optimum healthy bladder function. it was a very interesting post, what she wrote. and everything I’ve read I never knew this and it’s important that we all know it. I certainly understand your fears after going through what you did, I’m so sorry. I’m sure one of the ladies on here could instruct you as to their experience with it. Also did you speak to your pharmacist about it, pharmacists are wonderful patient people, with extended education‘s, that surpass our GPs by like three years 😃 blessings your way !