Vagirux is the same ingredients as vagifem, but no it's not the same, maybe it's the ratio of ingredients or they're low quality. I burnt and had to remove the pessary to stop the burning. I tried a few times and the same happened.
I now have Vagifem on my perscription so I won't be given vagirux or any other generic Estradiol. Ask your doctor to specify Vagifem on your prescription not Estradiol if there's a problem, not everyone has one.
Doing three lots of 20 pelvic floor exercises will not improve your prolapse without enough estrogen to strengthen muscles in the pelvic floor and also the vagina walls, it has to be a combined process with enough estrogen. Is your physiotherapist a Women's Health therapist?
I had physiotherapy for a prolapse referred by my gynae and it included local estrogen treatment, exercises alone won't work and if you are burning that is not helping and you need to stop. Has your physiotherapist examined you internally while physically directing you which muscles to pull in? If you're doing it wrong it makes it worse.
Your GP needs to refer you for a prolapse and you will need more than 2 of anything a week. 2 Estradiol pessaries a week is for atrophy not a prolapse.
Local estrogen and a good physiotherapist will reverse your prolapse and avoid surgery depending on what grade it is, it worked for me but luckily i had a good GP who had the sense to refer me.
https://bssm.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GSM-BSSM.pdfThis is great but are the GP's working with these new guidelines now or the NICE one's or still doing their own thing. Are they allowed to do their own thing? Why aren't they following the rules?
I take Vagifem every night now and Estriol cream externally every night but it's been a long haul. Eight years ago i was on 2 Vagifem a week for nearly a year and suffered until my gp referred me. There should be no need for that now, GPs can prescribe whats necessary, they have the NICE guidelines and BSM recommendations.
Reading this thread really depresses me because I thought we were moving on from this battle but it seems nothing has changed and women are unnecessarily still suffering.
Thank god for online treatments and OTC Gina if you can afford it!
I hope now you have vagifem and extra ones you've purchased, you can do a reload and use daily for a few weeks at least to see if it makes an improvement. Like Ayesha said it takes a while and even when alls well you will still have blips and flare ups but not as often. Hope you start to have more goods days than bad, that will be a start.
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