Morning all! WARNING - descriptions of lady parts to follow!
I've been on HRT now for over a year and have just had my annual review. The main ongoing problem not sorted by the HRT is dryness - everywhere, including down below. My GP has given me some vagifem to try but i'm having problems. Dose 1, inserted ok, uncomfortable but managed. Day 2 inserted easily, "it's working already" I thought. Fantastic. Day 3 (last night) I could not insert the applicator. I was very tender and sore and it seemed to be pulling my skin along with it rather than sliding it should. I released the tablet only half as far in as I should have and gave up. Today I'm quite tender when sitting down and worrying about future insertion attempts. Is is normal to be so dry that you can't insert the thing that's there to help you?? It's no thicker than a biro, that shouldn't be difficult, surely! I'm wondering if I can use something to lubricate the applicator if this happens again? I'm hoping that once it starts to work it will become easier going forward. I just can't understand why day 2 was so easy and then day 3 so hard. I'm also wondering if I've always been drier than the average person because when I used to have periods (currently bleeds prevented by contraceptive pill) I could never use tampons. Even the smallest one I found difficult and painful to insert, so I stopped trying them and only used pads. I've never had any issues with intercourse which I don't understand, but i'm not currently sexually active due to having no libido. (I was hoping that the vagifem would help this too) So perhaps I wouldn't be able to tolerate intercourse right now if I tried. I'm hoping someone else out there has had similar problems just so I don't feel so weird and deformed, and that someone might have a suggestion to help me. I've been happy to speak to my GP up to this point, but she looks like a supermodel and must only be in her 20s. She's great and has helped me loads so far, I just feel really silly trying to explain that I can't manage to stick something even biro sized in there!