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Vaginal atrophy and painful intercourse: What helps?

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@pb50

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?

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Helen, Volunteer Mentor | @naturegirl5 | Dec 29, 2023

@bp50 I used the estradiol cream for several years and it worked well for me. Unfortunately, as my doctor says, "estradiol is off the table" because I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2019 and have to be careful about what I use. I did not have the dead vaginal cells sloughing off as you describe when I was prescribed estradiol vaginal cream. I was having pain during intercourse so that is what started the discussion on how to manage the vaginal changes.

Does estradiol work for you?

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