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WORDS: TANYA PEAREY.

It is possible to have GREAT SEX AFTER MENOPAUSE I started finding sex uncomfortable about four years ago, after the menopause. I sailed through the main event with the odd hot flush, but then I started feeling really sore and dry down there. I was weeing more, so wiping myself frequently, and I thought it was that drying me out, and making me sore and itchy. I changed toilet paper but that didn’t help. I chatted to my friends about it and one opened up and said, ‘Actually, I’ve been to our doctor and she’s given me cream and pessaries, and it’s solved the problem.’ So I contacted my GP, who prescribed me oestrogen cream and pessaries to use twice a week. It’s been brilliant. There’s no itchiness now or…

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Woman's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 29-Nov-22

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