Sex

I could open a chemist shop with all the ' lotions and potions' I have been prescribed and NOT ONE WORKED. Some of them prescribed by the hospital.
The only thing that worked was an implant ( think it was Tetosterone) and then my hospital stopped doing it!!!

Hello All,
Sorry, I'm a new person, and I haven't read all the way back.
Hormones play a big part in this.
After the menopause, many women find that their
oestrogen / testosterone balance is such that their libido just takes off.
Signed
A Promiscuous Tart

BB

Must be something wrong with me then, because at 73 I keep my trusty sidekick in the drawer beside the bed just in case the urge comes, and no hubby is in the other bedroom. Yoiur as young as you feel..........

Elenk - I started a thread at the start of the year called 'Vaginal Atrophy'. My friend was suffering terribly from this and so I asked the women on here if they had any advice for her. As usual, lots of useful information flooded in, and my friend E attended the hospital and has been prescribed Vagifem. It's really helped her. I hope you get this sorted out soon, because I know she was in terrible discomfort - even walking was painful.

Thanks for all your info,seeing Doc next week she has promised me something with Oestrogen in it.Nothing seems to be relieving the awful itching,go to bed with sudocrem which helps me sleep.I really don't care if there's a risk with the Oestrogen,rather like to have a sex life again!,why does every thing have to stop just because I'm 66.wish me luck with Doc !!

I've been using Vagifem and found it very good until the manufacturers changed the dose from 25 micrograms to 10 but the maintenance usage remains the same at twice per week

Needless to say, it isn't working so well. I've resorted to buying something from Tesco at £8 per week until I can get to see my GP.

What are you buying from Tesco? Does anyone know if I can get HRT on line
As the only only one ive seen from Lloyd's chemist you have to be 60 or under,I'm 66.Have bought progesterone creme been using it a week now,not noticed anything much.

What are you buying from Tesco? Does anyone know if I can get HRT on line
As the only only one ive seen from Lloyd's chemist you have to be 60 or under,I'm 66.Have bought progesterone creme been using it a week now,not noticed anything much.

The stuff I'm using is called Balance Active and, in our Tesco, is next to the durex - ironic

Let's not forget......There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle!

Not progesterone pleas!

Buying any medication on-line is fraught with danger.

Kitty I was looking for feminine wash in a co-op pharmacy and it was on the very bottom right hand corner of a display shelf with condoms on.

Why not put it with the feminine hygiene bits? I thought it was just that chemist. Its clearly a man who works out these things.

I think 'feminine washes' are a con - part of the great campaign to convince women that their normal scents are somehow wrong.

Greatnan I do not find these washes a con. Using anything else causes me a lot of discomfort. What I use is formulated for very "sensitive areas" and any normal washes I find really irritate. It's connected with with the Atrophic Vaginitis.

The problem is when people with healthy normal tissues feel they should use them. Or when people use them instead of taking an infection to the doctor.

I kept thinking I had an infection, thrush or whatever, which turned out to be down to using ordinary shower gel in delicate areas. ouch!

You have to have been there, don't you nellie

Why use anything more than warm water? I know some of these douches wash away the natural lubricants supplied by nature.
We are now being told that our underarms need some special cream - manufacturers have worked hard to convince women that their natural odours are disgusting.

GN - natural lubricants - what are they?

Are we talking about two different things? I know some women need artificial lubricants after the menopause, but they are not douches.

women.webmd.com/guide/vaginal-douching-helpful-or-harmful

Vaginal douching! - I simply don't have the time! Leave it to nature, and when she packs up, go to the doc and see what she can come up with..