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[suzysunday]

I have had UTI symptoms from vaginal atrophy for a few months now and just using local hrt. I am afraid of using systemic hrt after pmb and biopsy. I have pressure around the bladder and I have good days then it just comes back.  Do others feel really tired and weepy on such days ?  It feels as though I will never get well.  Do others manage symptoms with just local hrt. So fed up and tired.

[Katejo]

I have had UTI symptoms from vaginal atrophy for a few months now and just using local hrt. I am afraid of using systemic hrt after pmb and biopsy. I have pressure around the bladder and I have good days then it just comes back.  Do others feel really tired and weepy on such days ?  It feels as though I will never get well.  Do others manage symptoms with just local hrt. So fed up and tired.

I am using just local HRT (Vagifem) at the moment and it is working fairly well so far. I have got a menopause clinic referral soon to look at trying systemic but that is more for protective reasons such as maintaining bone density/healthy heart.

[suzysunday]

Ok thanks. How long have you been using vagifem?  I am using Ovestin.  Did you have urinary problems?

[Tinkerbell]

How often are you using the Ovestin?

[Katejo]

Ok thanks. How long have you been using vagifem?  I am using Ovestin.  Did you have urinary problems?

Since last September.  Yes I ha e had problems with recurrent UTI's for over 10 years (roughly since starting peri).

[suzysunday]

I use ovestin alternate nights and about a month ago did a month every night. I am ok some days but have bouts of weeing a lot, but not painful, but also feeling really tired and down with it and fragile.  I have used the ovestin since October.

[CLKD]

Have you had your VitD levels tested?  Feeling tired is characteristic, as is problems with thyroid function.

[suzysunday]

No I haven't had any tests.

[CLKD]

Keep up with plenty of hydration, do not stop drinking at night as the kidneys work harder which means you may have problems in the whole area.  Take pain relief as necessary as it relaxes those bladder issues.  Keep the area moist to stop any itchiness. 

[suzysunday]

Yes I do drink at night.  Thanks, it comes and goes some good some bad days.

[CLKD]

My symptoms are worse when my bowel is on go slow   

[suzysunday]

Yes, that is the worst!

[dahliagirl]

I definitely have more problems if I am constipated 

Sometimes I blame it on the movicol that I take in such situations, sometimes I think I may be a bit dehydrated with will have not helped with either problem, and sometimes I think maybe it is the state of my hormones which has caused both.

Drinking plenty water helps both though 

We have had unseasonal warm weather lately, and it is hard to adjust how much you drink - especially if you have been out walking.

[suzysunday]

Yes I try and drink plenty.  Do you think you will always get bad days or can we hope for very few or hardly any bad days.  I want to manage on the local hrt and really want it to work.

[CLKD]

It is a condition that has to be managed on a nightly basis.  Adjusting when one uses the product dependent on the symptoms.