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[honorsmum]

Someone please enlighten me.

[Hurdity]

Sorry honorsmum - my fault - Vaginal Atrophy - I don't usually use initials if I think peeps know them but was probs posting too quickly!

Hurdity x

[honorsmum]

Thank you, Hurdity...but what exactly is vaginal atrophy?
(Sorry if this is a silly question!) 

[Dancinggirl]

Oh dear - I don't want to explain this one - it's one of my main problems and for me it's nasty. Try looking under vaginal problems in red to the left of this page.
Hurdity or someone, please do the honours.   Dg x

[Millykin]

Sorry just having a little chuckle at your post there DG  x

[Limpy]

Ok - this is my limited understanding.

It's where the vagina loses lubrication, gets dry, this results in it getting sore.
The reduction in hormones (oestrogen mostly?) is what causes the vagina to lose lubrication, i.e. get dry, which in turn leads to soreness. This can also happen in the urethra, which leads to many women being diagnosed with bladder infections when there is no actual infection.

Hope to goodness Hurdity or somebody who knows what they are talking about will be along soon.

[CLKD]

Yep.  For me it was like having razor blades 'up' there ……… for several years I had intermittent urine 'infections' but my GP cottoned on that it was dryness = symptoms.  Treatment solved the problem!

[Millykin]

Well that was a start Limpy 
It's almost like "mum where do babies come from"

No offence btw Honorsmum I don't know much myself about this, it's just funny trying to explain x

[CLKD]

Suzi Q did a very good thread and mine [My bladder etc.] is here somewhere 

[honorsmum]

Oh gosh, I'm so sorry if I've embarrassed anyone by my clumsy question! 
I will shuffle off and ask Google for the finer details.

Sorry, girls! 

[CLKD]

Don't run away, NO query is taboo on here  - have a search for our threads on here …….

[Limpy]

Well that was a start Limpy 
It's almost like "mum where do babies come from"

Millykin - Phew - Didn't know how to put it   

Honorsmum - it wasn't a clumsy question at all - and this is the place to ask it   

[Millykin]

It's not a clumsy question, I think it's one of those things were symptons are hard to explain or put into proper words.
What Limpy explained is a rough idea, I have this mildly and due smear test next week, I'll be asking while she's down there does it look ok 
Was worse before I started HRT. Sex felt like I was raw a little burning inside. And I had urine infection which never had before
X

[honorsmum]

Thank you, CLKD and Limpy.x

My mother once told me I was brazen...because I gave birth to both my children naked. 

My nearly 9 year old son is well versed in periods, boobs and bits, as is his 11 year old sister - I was brought up in a house that never mentioned any of it, and the bathroom door was always locked, and skin always clothed, so I want them to be comfortable with bodies.
Apart from anything, all inhibitions go out of the window when you have bowel disease, as I do!

[CLKD]

… because I gave birth naked ……… may I laugh 

Standards Girls, now - standards