Let’s talk about some embarrassing menopause symptoms that nobody likes to talk about.
Menopause brings lots of annoying symptoms like hot flashes and insomnia, brain fog, and wrinkles but there are lesser-known symptoms. Some of these can become embarrassing problems if you don’t know how to deal with them.
Body Odor
First, Body Odor. When menopausal women’s hormones start to fall, they may notice an increase in body odor. That’s because as estrogen falls, there’s more testosterone freed. The increase in testosterone feeds the bacteria in the armpits and groin leading to some pretty foul body odor.
Making sure that your estrogen and progesterone levels are balanced can help to reduce free testosterone. You can also wash the areas with the tea tree oil based soap to help decrease the bacteria in the area.
Urine
The second embarrassing menopause problem is leaking urine. As your estrogen declines, your bladder neck becomes weaker, you lose elasticity, and you don’t have the vaginal support for healthy bladder function. So even if your bladder is not excessively full, you can have leaking before you need to urinate. You feel like you’ve completely emptied your bladder, but when you stand up, you leak a little bit more, and that’s because of the weakness in the bladder neck.
What is most helpful is to directly apply topical estrogen. I recommend estriol vaginal cream applied to the anterior aspect of the vagina, where the urethra is, to help to reestrogenize the area, increase collagen, and improve bladder neck function. Combining a topical vaginal estrogen with Kegel exercises makes a huge difference in getting back bladder control by improving vaginal tone. Vibrators can be useful to improve vaginal tone and help with urinary incontinence.
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Vaginal Itching
The third most embarrassing menopausal problem is vaginal itching. Vaginal itching in menopause is caused by two issues. First is atrophy, thinning of the tissue from low estrogen levels. Second is vaginal dysbiosis, an imbalance in the normal bacteria that’s in the vagina, causing an overgrowth of other bacteria and even yeast.
The best way to deal with vaginal itching is using a topical vaginal estrogen to thicken up the tissue and make it a friendly environment for lactobacillus acidophilus to move in and protect you. In the meantime, coconut oil can help soothe the tissues and has an antimicrobial, antifungal effect.
Pruritis
And the fourth most embarrassing menopausal problem is pruritis. As your estrogen starts to fall, your nerves become more sensitive. You also have spikes in cortisol, which can cause you to get itchy, and even develop rashes, like urticaria. The constant itching can be quite disturbing. Making sure again that your progesterone levels are well balanced can help with pruritus.
Antihistamines can provide temporary relief but they can be a little drying so be sure to moisturize your skin daily especially after a bath. A good moisturizer can make a big difference in the itching as well.
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