{"id":1925,"date":"2021-08-04T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/?post_type=menopauselibrary&#038;p=1925"},"modified":"2024-02-15T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T14:22:16","slug":"what-is-vaginal-dryness-with-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"menopauselibrary","link":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/menopause-library\/what-is-vaginal-dryness-with-sign-language\/","title":{"rendered":"What is vaginal dryness? [with sign language]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr Louise Newson discusses vaginal dryness caused by the menopause. #11 in a series of videos with sign language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Transcript:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am Dr. Louise Newson. I am a GP and Menopausal Expert in West Midlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Dry Vagina\u2019 is what people commonly use, but then it\u2019s quite scary. And I am not embarrassed by vaginas but people are\u2026you don\u2019t talk to your friends about how dry your vagina is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other thing is that most people think that once you are through with the menopause and come out through the other side, you don\u2019t have symptoms \u2013 which is true for most symptoms of the menopause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, dry vaginas carry on becoming drier as you grow older, regardless of what you do. So I see a lot of elderly people who aren\u2019t sexually active but they get a lot of discomfort, irritation \u2013 they get a lot of itching, sitting down is more uncomfortable, they go to the toilet more often. They have no idea it is related to a loss of estrogen in the area and that can be really effectively treated just by using local estrogen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it is very different to HRT; it doesn\u2019t have the same risks but it transforms their whole lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Louise Newson discusses vaginal dryness caused by the menopause. #11 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1342,"template":"","subject":[78,37,70],"content-type":[22],"library-format":[23],"library-author":[],"class_list":["post-1925","menopauselibrary","type-menopauselibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-british-sign-language-library","subject-vaginal-dryness","subject-vaginal-health","content-type-video","library-format-watch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/menopauselibrary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/menopauselibrary"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"library-format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-format?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"library-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balance-menopause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-author?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}