I'm Using My Vaginal Estrogen- But SEX STILL HURTS Like Hell: Why treatment fails, and where PELVIC FLOOR PT comes in

It’s a common scenario. A woman is given a prescription for a local vaginal estrogen, or DHEA, and uses it faithfully but continues to have painful intercourse. In most cases, the product is working just fine and there is another reason for the pain.  

In this segment Dr. Streicher discusses:

Episode 3: What's Up Down There? Genital Dryness & Misbehaving Bladders

Episode 4: Is Your Lubricant Helping or Hurting Your Vagina?

Episode 5: Vaginal Estrogen- Rings, Creams, and Other Things 

Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison

Pelvic Floor Physical therapists trained by Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute www.pelvicrehab.com 

American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Section on Women’s Health www.aptapelvichealth.org/ptlocator 

Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 

Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGNMorningNews, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr.Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS ThisMorning, ABCNewsNow, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and WorldNewsTonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.

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