Dec 5, 2010 01:17PM Annabella58 wrote:

Hi all,

Otter, your posts are adorable re: girl issues with mr. otter; you said you used the KY liquibeads and that they helped? (I"m sorry if that wasn't you, so many posts to catch up on)..and does anyone know if the KY sensitive Jelly is for daily moisturizing use or only for sex?

I filled the script  I got from the Urologist for my near constant UTIs....the cranberry pills seems to be doing the job quite well, but I do still have this constant feeling of burning when I sit too down (so, don't sit too long, right?)  he gave me Estrace cream, and after reading the SE s of that one, there is no way I'd touch it with a ten foot pole!!! I tmight give me a better quality of life, but since it is a "black box" drug, my pharmacist alerted me to it, and after reading it, I returned it.  Someone on here referred to the Estring as a helpful way to put a teensy bit of estrogen back.  My symptoms are from not only arimidex and an oopharextomy also.  Anyone know whether the esting is a good idea?  I have read that it releases a lower dose than the estrace cream.  I figure that with the oopharectomy and the full hysterectomy, and the arimidex, the only place I am getting "any" E is from my bodily fat and my adrenals.  Possibly, the cream would be safer for me than for someone with their ovaries, but OMG, blood clots, stroke, high blood pressure, brain hemmorage, list went on and on, including seizures.

YIKES.

Also been reading up on "rejuvination" techniques; kegels, moisturizers, a sort of weenie rehab....anyone tried this?

Sorry, (blush), Mr. Also is very healthy and loving man.  (blush,blush)

xoxoxo

a

Dec 5, 2010 01:27PM Annabella58 wrote:

Oops! Karen, I eat 10 tiny prunes a day.  There was this study done that showed improvement in bone health with doing this.

They are chock full of boron and phosphorus and magnesium, all bone builders.  I'm trying it, and will let all know when I get bone scan if anything worked.  It takes 6 months of prunes (and that is yes, 10-12 daily, but get the tiny ones which equals about 150 calories) to get this to work.

Work up to them, too!  Begin with 3 and go slowly....you will otherwise become intimately acquainted with the toilet.

Dec 5, 2010 02:48PM socallisa wrote:

for bone loss there is this drug that seems to help with this..something other than fosamax and

other biphosphotates

 Denosumab May Help Prevent Bone Loss Related to Use of Aromatase Inhibitors
(Posted: 09/11/2008) - Treatment with the experimental drug denosumab increased bone density in postmenopausal women taking aromatase inhibitors to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer, according to a report published online August 25, 2008, by the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Dec 5, 2010 03:01PM ruthbru wrote:

I am seeing the gyno  Friday & bringing my dilator information along as a 'topic for conversation'.

Dec 5, 2010 07:29PM Annabella58 wrote:

thanks, ladies, I just had a good buddy tell me that the one to use that is the least absorbed is the Vagifem.  For now, I'm staying with the moisturizers, lubes and "weenie rehab"...this involved a sort of myotherapy internally that you do yourself, kegels et al, causing more circulation in that area.  (well, so wou ld sex, theoretically) ho ho.

Thank you for all the info!  Anyone know of the liquibeads?  Replens burns, the very private is stinging now. 

I for one, certainly do not believe that none to little estrogen is absorbed.  They told me that you can put the estrogen cream on anywhere and it will help.  Therefore, it's in the bloodstream, not topical.

You are so right; the FDA warnings are pretty scarey, but the black box ones are for drugs that can kill you.  My dr. yanked me off Serevent the minute it got one.  This little tube had it, so no to Estrace for me.

I appreciate any discussion of this very much!! Where else can a bunch of bright, informed women, all with the same issues, come and chat over this type of thing?  And then people volunteer their doctors input.  It's a think (a pink) think tank!