Ladies: How are you managing vaginal atrophy as you age?

Posted by HomeAgainLA @llynch17056, Sep 21, 2023

TO THE LADIES ONLY: As I got older I started developing vaginal atrophy. Then I started developing open splits on my labia that were extremely painful. I went to urgent care one weekend and was prescribed vaginal estrogen medicine. It did the trick but I didn’t want to use estrogen. I went to a GYN that recommending organic coconut oil to use externally only. This was a few years ago and it has worked perfectly. I have never had another problem. At all. I wanted to pass along a natural inexpensive solution to vaginal atrophy.

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pb50 | @pb50 | 6 days ago

I had a hysterectomy at 38 and the prevailing wisdom then was NO HORMONES!! So… skip forward twenty years and a divorce later and I am having icky discharge that - after I finally was referred to a young genito-urinary doc - and the discharge was diagnosed as dead cells sloughing off. Eeew -right??

I went on estradiol suppositories twice a week. Problem solved. I am a further 20 years down the road now and have weaned off the suppositories as well.