I have a few ? about vaginal estrogen
Last week I had quite a bout of urinary retention, I was telling my Dr. and said the funny thing was I went up 4 lbs in 4 days, the day I stopped the med he had me on, the retention got better, I spent the whole day in the bathroom and peed out the 4 lbs.
I was telling him I was uncomfortable and in pain, but kinda had this numb feeling as well, like I had lost some sensation in my bladder at the same time. He asked if I had been leaking urine, while not during this bout, but I am finding if I am out walking I will leak a bit, or sneeze, cough. This is new to me, I had a urodynamics tests about a year ago and they could not get me to leak with a full bladder.
He recommended that I start taking vaginal estrogen, to start with every other day. Now I have not started yet as I again am on a AB which is making my retention worse, so I like to only introduce one new med at a time.
My ?'s are, I asked him but he was a little vague
1. what does using vaginal estrogen supposed to do, I am 50 but don't need extra lub.
2. he said it will stop the leaking, does it?
3. he has told me many times he dosen't want me on hormons because of my history with reactions to meds and my reaction to BC pills before I just could not take them.
4. does your body absorb it the same as if you took a pill orally? Do you need higher doses than oral?
5. taking it this way does it just work locally?
I will ask my Dr. all these things again before I take it as I am very leery to take it because of how sick 3 days of BC pills made me for a month.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
MG
Last week I had quite a bout of urinary retention, I was telling my Dr. and said the funny thing was I went up 4 lbs in 4 days, the day I stopped the med he had me on, the retention got better, I spent the whole day in the bathroom and peed out the 4 lbs.
I was telling him I was uncomfortable and in pain, but kinda had this numb feeling as well, like I had lost some sensation in my bladder at the same time. He asked if I had been leaking urine, while not during this bout, but I am finding if I am out walking I will leak a bit, or sneeze, cough. This is new to me, I had a urodynamics tests about a year ago and they could not get me to leak with a full bladder.
He recommended that I start taking vaginal estrogen, to start with every other day. Now I have not started yet as I again am on a AB which is making my retention worse, so I like to only introduce one new med at a time.
My ?'s are, I asked him but he was a little vague
1. what does using vaginal estrogen supposed to do, I am 50 but don't need extra lub.
2. he said it will stop the leaking, does it?
3. he has told me many times he dosen't want me on hormons because of my history with reactions to meds and my reaction to BC pills before I just could not take them.
4. does your body absorb it the same as if you took a pill orally? Do you need higher doses than oral?
5. taking it this way does it just work locally?
I will ask my Dr. all these things again before I take it as I am very leery to take it because of how sick 3 days of BC pills made me for a month.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
MG
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