As estrogen levels decline during perimenopause and menopause, many women notice changes that rarely make it into polite conversation: persistent vaginal dryness, burning or itching, discomfort during intimacy, and even more frequent urinary tract infections. These symptoms are collectively known as genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), and they affect the majority of postmenopausal women. One…
Knowing the right vaginal dryness causes treatment path is one of the most practical things a woman — and her partner — can do for intimate health. Vaginal dryness is common and treatable at every severity level. This guide explains, as doctors do to patients: what causes dryness, how clinicians evaluate it, which treatments actually…
Painful intercourse after menopause is one of the most common, and most underreported, sexual health concerns among women in midlife. Clinicians call it dyspareunia, and surveys of postmenopausal women not on hormone therapy report it in as many as 20 to 30 percent of them, according to the Mayo Clinic. If sex has started to…