How Laser Vaginal Therapy Works Differently than Estrogen Vaginal Therapy

Estrogen treatment works by estrogen unlocking it's own activity in a cell. It works to fit into what is called an estrogen receptor, and it only works by binding to an estrogen receptor. And as hormone levels drop, so to do the receptors for that same hormone. Thus, for estrogen to work on vaginal tissues, it needs to unlock (regrow) it's own receptors. One reason it's been known to take a long time and a stronger dosage for estrogen to work on vaginal tissues. The MonaLisa laser works on a deeper and different cellular mechanism to heal the thinned and atrophic vaginal tissues, and doesn't need to unlock just estrogen receptors. This is the basis for how CO2 laser therapies have been successfully used to treat skin lesions such as seborheic keratosis, syringomas, xanthelasmas around the eyes, warts, tonal disease as well as to anti-age the skin. A lot is known of the regenerative properties of the tissues that are thinned an atrophic due to aging, hormonal changes, or menopause. The process involves heat shock to proteins that then bring in the fibroblast cells, the endothelial cells and the growth factors to rebuild and reform the tissue. As a result of the CO2 laser MonaLisa Therapy there is formation of new collagen, new elastin, and new blood vessels restore tissue to a healthy state. A study released in the August issue of Menopause in 2015 has been done studying the tissue of women who were scheduled to have surgery to repair of vulvo-vaginal laser therapy. They were used as their own controls and areas treated were compared to areas not treated. The women had tissue confirmation that the therapy both healed and was safe. The patients healed rapidly and restored the health of their tissues. Clinical studies have also confirmed that there is improvement in sexual function and sexual satisfaction among treated patients at 12 weeks of follow up after a treatment series.Discuss with your gyno which might be right for you.

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Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you...

Post-Endometrial Ablation Syndrome

If you have had an endometrial ablation and have developed symptoms of pelvic pain you might have post endometrial ablation syndrome. What is post-endometrial ablation syndrome? It is a constellation of symptoms due to entrapped blood or tissue within a uterus that has previously undergone an endometrial ablation. We are able to diagnose this at Women's Health Practic e but occasionally other conditions are causing similar symptoms. Other complications of endometrial ablation include pregnancy, risks from pre-existing conditions such as a polyp or fibroid, an infection of the uterus, or a pregnancy. If you have had a tubal ligation then it is possible that the condition could be post-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome. The ablation procedure is designed to destroy all lining tissue, but in fact there is no way to confirm the completeness of the ablation. It is thought that either residual or regrowth of the tissue is producing the symptoms of post-endometrial ablation syndrom...

You Have an IUD: But a Positive Pregnancy Test

Fortunately IUD pregnancy failures are rare. But if you have an IUD for contraception, and you get a positive pregnancy test, you probably ask yourself, what next? Well, make your gyno appointment promptly, this is a condition that is not typically an emergency, but it can be and it’s not handled over the phone or on a blog, or through self diagnosis! That being said, some researchers from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas decided to look back at over 4100 women who had IUDs and of those 42 cases who became pregnant in their institution, over about a year period of time, to help understand what these women could expect when they got to their gyno and what actually happened to their pregnancies. Accurate pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic examination, and pelvic ultrasound were the cornerstones of the evaluations. They had very specific ways they looked at their ultrasound to prove there was no pregnancy in the fallopian tube, or partially in the fallopian tube...

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