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[jille]

I've been browsing through the forums for a while now and keep seeing VA.  What is it short for? Sorry feel really silly asking!
thanks

[tiger74]

Vaginal atrophy

[jille]

thanks!

[Maryjane]

Mother Nature not being very nice.

[Taz2]

It's sometimes called vaginal dryness which is a bit of a misnomer as you can have pain and soreness but still be quite lubricated - well that's what happened to me anyway! Sometimes feels like your partner has a razor blade attached to his whateveryouliketocallit!

Taz x 

[CLKD]

I didn't need DH to be in there for it to feel like razor blades  and no question is silly  - if you don't ask, you don't get …...

[honeybun]

No silly questions just silly answers 


Hope everyone's answers have helped. Took me ages to work out what AD's were 


Honeyb
x

[Hurdity]

Perhaps there could be an abbreviations sticky in the forum guide section? Not sure how many of them are used but sometimes things like DHEA and sometimes all sorts of other medications which I then have to Google! I didn't understand what OP was for ages - but it isn't used much on here.

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

ADs - anti-depressants
VA - vaginal atrophy
OP - out patients
OAP - old age peoples
BP - blood pressure

[Taz2]

Doesn't OP also mean Original Poster?

Taz x 

[CLKD]

Not as  a medical secretary 

[Taz2]

You had the wrong hat on CLKD!

Taz x

[Hurdity]

Yes I meant that OP Taz! Talking of medical contexts, it could be thought of as Operation too! I was very confused when I first saw it!

Hurdity x

[patch]

Oh wow!
I've had terrible vertigo for the last five or six months - which isn't that much longer than I've been perimenopausal. I was blaming it on my HRT, but perhaps it's just the menopause itself?  It definitely came form nowhere with me, turning from no instances to almost (background) continuous, with brief bouts which were enough to send me to bed - which of course makes it worse.
I've been prescribed with Prochlorperazine Buccal tablets to help, which  think they do, but they're to take when a bout comes on, and I tend to have it as a background symptom continually.
I'd definitely say there's a link between perimenopause and vertigo.
Anybody else had any other luck with remedies?