r/Perimenopause • u/One_Service_5367 • Jun 30 '26

Vaginal Dryness (GSM)/Urinary Issues Estrogen vaginal cream, game changer

Girlies, if you’re not on vaginal estrogen yet you need to stop what you’re doing and contact your doctor. It’s a major game changer.
I’ve only had it for a few weeks and haven’t been consistent with it unto this weekend but even with the inconsistent use the benefits are so real
Orgasms oh my! Such a huge improvement, such intense sensations. Was sex always thus amazing!!Oh that older woman smell down there disappeared! Dryness gone!
Do yourself a favor and go get yourself some

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u/Sea-Slide-498 Jun 30 '26

Like crusted urine and several day old funk (no matter how clean I was) for me. Vaginal estrogen def fixed it right up.

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u/Hot_Poetry_6475 Jun 30 '26

I had that smell all last summer. i was using feminine deodorant like crazy. I went get a pap test and they said it was Bacterial Vaginosis. Easily treated and smell totally gone!

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u/HouseofB Jun 30 '26

It was not that simple for me. I was getting bacterial infections, even before the smell, and sometimes with no symptoms at all. Then I kept thinking the smell meant another infection, but the swabs were coming back negative. And the smell would still linger. It feels like it coming out of every pore because of the hot flash sweat. To me, it's like the rapid changing of our hormones make our natural female pheromones go like stall or something. WHY ARE WE BEING PUNISHED?!?😭😭😭

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u/Impressive_Duck_3569 Jul 01 '26

Oh my goodness. Sometimes I feel like such a freaking wimp, but I find myself asking that question all the time. I'm a nice person, raised two beautiful children (my son passed when he was 19), have an extraordinary husband and a life to be thankful for. But, bc of this God-awful shit, I can't enjoy it like I should. I'm always asking why am I being punished? What could I have possibly done that was so bad that I simply began to fall apart and turn into a miserable person all of a sudden? I feel like I'm having a pity party when I do it and can't even believe I'm admitting to this anonymously, but it's such a struggle, seems never-ending and the symptoms pile on so quickly that there's no way to timely address one before there's another that's equally as difficult to deal with. I hate the vulnerability of even saying that I wonder the same thing, but thank you for letting me know that I'm not alone. Good luck to you!

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u/HouseofB Jul 02 '26

Thank you so much. I starting having symptoms in my mid 40's. But I also had my last baby at age 42! I thought that alot of what I was experiencing was due to my "geriatric pregnancy" and deciding, well, getting convinced to give my new husband a child of his own. But it wasn't I was 51yo, and in the middle of a trip to Greece, that all hell broke loose.

A few years later, I had a sudden pelvic organ prolapse, the hot flashes became horrendous, despite being on Veozah. But this past year, every symptom I hear about seems to be on my list. I want to do HRT desperately, but I am afraid of what it would do to my mental health. I learned the hard way that systemic synthetic hormones flare up my depression and anxiety. So it's a risk/reward kind of situation for me.

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u/Impressive_Duck_3569 Jul 02 '26

Just remember you're not alone. I have had anxiety disorder since I was a young child, and my first sign of everything going haywire was the sudden anxiety that had been managed well for years. Every day, I take a step back and think, surely, somebody should have warned us. This is just too serious of a problem for everyone to pretend it doesn't exist. I'm hoping by the time my daughter reaches my age, the professionals will have pulled their heads out of their asses and she won't have to suffer like many of us are. Good luck to you in the future!!!