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Constant Urethra burning & IC

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Wrensong:
Interstitial Cystitis, CLKD.

sheila99:
A painful urethra was my biggest va problem (just the end of it, not all the way up). Do you have the 0.1% estriol cream or the 0.01%? The 0.1 is better as it's stronger and I'd suggest you make sure it's dry every time you wee by dabbing not rubbing and apply cream every time it gets wet. Try it for a couple of weeks and see if it's any different. I didn't have vaginal soreness, it was just the end of the urethra and a dry patch on the labia. Is yours painful all the way up or just the end?

CLKD:
 :thankyou:

YvonneW:
Hi Wrensong and Sheila99,

Thank you both so much for the response, this is really so helpful and reassuring. I’ve been struggling for so long that I just want something to work. I’m honestly so glad to hear that it can take months for the creme to work. I just double checked, it was 0.01%. I’m not having any creme at the moment because the GP deleted it off my repeat medication list. I contacted them this morning and hopefully get it back on track. I’ll mention the 0.1% Estradiol, I didn’t know there was a stronger one. The vaginal tablets and creme are still something new to me. Something I didn’t know before. Also, no one ever mentioned that this could be menopause related. I’m 50 and have been on contraception for years so I never connected this to the menopause but reading some posts and through research, I found myself reading all these urethra pain posts that could be connected to the menopause and/or IC. I’m shocked that no doctor ever mentioned this to me before. I’m so grateful for any response or help as I clearly have to find the right treatment myself, doctors seem to not know…😩

YvonneW:
PS: @Sheila99

Hey! The burning is always at the end of my urethra. Sometimes it feels like it’s the entire urethra but I would still say it’s always the end 😵‍💫

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