Vaginal Moisturizers for Vaginal Dryness at Perimenopause and Menopause: How do they work?
What are Vaginal Moisturizers?
Here is an easy way for you to understand Vaginal Moisturizers AND to explain them to your partners who may sometimes find your avoidance of intercourse difficult to understand.
So, imagine your hands - if you don't moisturize them year after year - what they will feel like - that itchy, prickly feeling on your hands - that's how the vagina feels when the natural moisture reduces at menopause.
And now go one step further and imagine your hand in a tight latex glove and repeatedly put it on and take it off for a few minutes. What do you think will happen to the skin? It will be sore, red, inflamed, and painful. That is what happens when you have intercourse when the vagina is dry and the lining is thin.
Let's go one step further - let's put some jelly or oil in the glove and let's repeat the process of on and off with the glove - feels better doesn't it? But now, after a few times, the jelly leaks out - and we are back to soreness. That's what happens when the vaginal lubricant runs out.
But now, what if the vagina was regularly moisturized with something that could be used a few times a week - just like moisturizing your hands? Not only could it make intercourse less painful but it could also take care of vaginal discomfort that a large majority of post-menopausal women feel. This is where vaginal moisturizers come in!
More on this in my next post..stay tuned and be MenopauseWize!
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