S1 Ep42: Out of Practice Does Not Mean Out of Business! A Guide to Sex After a Long Hiatus

It’s a common scenario. A patient will come to me after years of no penetration other than from a gynecologist’s speculum. And the question I always get is- is it ever too late? Is there any way to reverse the dryness, the shrinkage, the pain...even if it’s been decades? In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers: Requirements for PAIN FREE sex How to PREDICT if sex will be pleasurable or painful The purpose of a VAGINAL DILATOR assessment A GUIDE to getting your LUBRICANT where it needs to go  The difference between REPAIR vs. MAINTENENCE Why the FIRST TWO WEEKS of treatment are so important Why you should NEVER ENDURE sex if it is PAINFUL The purpose of VAGINAL DILATOR therapy HOW LONG it takes to restore vaginal lubrication and elasticity  Why you should not STOP your vaginal estrogen Where USE IT or LOSE IT applies For more information on this topic:   Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain 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 8:When Painful Sex Leads to Problem Relationships  with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg Episode 11: Vaginal Estrogen is Not Poison Episode 27:  Using Vaginal Estrogen but Sex Still Hurts Like Hell  Episode 39 A Personal Trainer for Your Pelvic Floor with Dr. Janelle Howell To purchase vaginal dilators: https://www.soulsource.com/ 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 WGN Morning News, 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 This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. 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.  Subscribe and Follow Dr. Streicher on  DrStreicher.com Instagram @DrStreich Twitter @DrStreicher Facebook  @DrStreicher YouTube  DrStreicherTV Books by Lauren Streicher, MD  Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat Sex Rx- Hormones , Health, and Your Best Sex Ever The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy