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Unread 01-16-2007, 03:41 PM
What can cause vaginal dryness?

What is causing vaginal dryness. What can I do?
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Unread 01-17-2007, 05:06 PM
What can cause vaginal dryness?

A lack of estrogen causes vaginal dryness. Are you on HRT? Sometimes even with HRT you need vaginal estrogen or if you choose not to use systemic estrogen, you can just use vaginal estrogen. Other ways of dealing with it would be Replens and some other OTC methods.
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Unread 01-17-2007, 05:12 PM
What can cause vaginal dryness?


A lack of estrogen to the vaginal tissues is usually the cause of vaginal dryness. Are you using hrt? If you are, it could be that the estrogen isn't reaching the vaginal tissues so you may need to add some vaginal estrogen.

Here's some information for you Vaginal Dryness

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