Sentences with phrase «makes vaginal tissue»

The lowdown: Low estrogen is the usual suspect for women over 35; levels of the hormone plummet during perimenopause, as well as when you're breast - feeding, making your vaginal tissue thinner and drier.

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Lochia is a vaginal discharge that is made up of blood and tissue from the lining of the uterus.

Decreased estrogen can cause vaginal tissues to become thinner, drier, and less elastic, making vaginal penetration painful.

I think that it's a very individual thing... some women are more comfortable in their own skins, more confident, the changing hormonal mix they encounter during perimenopause (the years of hormonal fluctuations before a woman goes through menopause) can have a positive (or a negative) effect — often the vaginal tissues thin due to those changes and initially can be very beneficial as it makes everything feel much better — in some it can go too far and it ends up feeling more painful.

One of the negative outcomes of menopause is a significant decrease in estrogen production that, in turn, leads to thinning and dryness of vaginal tissue and, as a result, makes penetration more painful.