Would you mind mentioning the vaginal moisturizers you are using as i am not into estrogen creams as well. Had my total hystrectomy 3mos ago with stage1a grade1 path report. Thank you

What non estrogen moisturizer have you found works best?

I’m going to jump in here in spite of this thread being two years old. Is it still active?

I had a total hysterectomy at age 35. Or course no HRT was administered so over the years it all just dried up. And for 20 years it was just an “is”. Then I started having a discharge I believed to be a vaginal infection of some type, but turned out to be dead vaginal cells sloughing off. My new GYN put me on estradiol 10mg suppository. It improved over a long while so I considered myself cured. It recently raised its ugly head again and now I am back on estradiol. Of course Medicare insists I use a sloppy cream instead of the tidy suppository so I am paying out of pocket for it.
What I don’t know is whether anyone else has this shedding of dead vaginal cells?

I have had the same problem needing to correct atrophy-related symptoms, and I have none of those. My reasons are purely selfish. I am 57 now, but was maybe 54 when Vaginal Atrophy hit me. I say "hit me" because it happened overnight. My husband and I have always enjoyed a very active sex life, and one night it was great as always, and the next, it felt like he was wearing a condom made of tiny knives slicing me up. All at once, fine one day, and you can never have great sex again the next. I just cried and cried because my husband has turned to younger women a few times now to satisfy his needs because I simply could not do it anymore. It is ruining my marriage. Like someone else said I first talked to my primary who had nothing relevant to say at all and then a nurse practitioner/gyn that is a sex/menopause specialist. My primary ridiculously told me to try lubricants. There does not exist a lubricant that can help this kind of pain unless it has the stuff they use at the dentist in it, then maybe. The specialist told me it was vaginal atrophy, and prescribed estradiol vaginal cream. As I began to use it, it did help a little, but not that much, and a side effect I noticed was my hair began to fall out. Numerous professionals have told me that is not possible, that estrogen helps hair regrow, not the opposite but when I read the entire paper that came with it, in the fine print, hair loss was listed as a possible side effect. So then I had to choose between my hair falling out in patches or a better sex life but still not perfect. So I stopped taking it. Now when we want to be intimate, I take 6 or 8 Ibuprofins and have 3 shots of Tequila, and I can get through it and sometimes actually enjoy it for a little while. In the end, I am still so sad because vaginal atrophy literally ruined my life. Now I've gained some weight, and I feel like I am not a real woman anymore. I feel unattractive and now I have trust issues with my husband who says "you didn't just expect me to never have sex again just because you can't, did you? " Yep, that's my man, I can't believe more people in their 50's don't off themselves. Everything you care about is gone, including good sex, slim body, kids have all moved out, I have no friends near me anymore, and now my husband cheats occasionally and I'm supposed to be ok with that because I guess it's my fault. I need help with this issue. Real help before it's too late for me. Any suggestions at all would be welcomed appreciatively. I sound like a baby. With so many of you having way more serious things going on like cancers, endometriosis, and urology issues, I am so sorry I feel ridiculous even bringing this up.