Good Monday Morning, Ladies........

[Guest guest]

Hi---59 yr. old post-menopausal, vulvar-pained, FMS, IBS, /bladder interior

chronically-inflamed, over-surgeried me here again. I have appreciated

the free flow of information on this list so much:-) I'd like to mention

this:

ESTRACE ~ I'm so glad some of you have had great improvement of the vulvar

skin while using this synthetic form of estrogen. For those of you unable

to use it, this may help: I've found it necessary to use Estrace vaginally

for several years now, due to atrophied vagina. (I found I needed to apply

with fingers to get into all the nooks and crannied, too, instead of using

applicator.) Estrace greatly improved the vagina, overcoming that awful

" million little paper-cuts " feeling I'd had. However, I noticed the vulvar

skin became irritated from drainage of Estrace from the vag.

Others in my support group mentioned having had trouble when they applied

Estrace to vulvar skin and some of their doctors confirmed the fact that

that were " redder " than before use of Estrace. So some of their doctors

have begun ordering the estrogen component of Estrace---Estradoil---to be

mixed with pure vitamin E oil. This has allowed them to get the benefit of

estrogen without the extra 7 or 8 ingredients which are in Estrace, several

being potential allergy causers---stearyl alcohol and some sort of

petroleum-based ingredient that can irritate tissue.

My doctor has ordered the Estradoil/VitE for me and I'm waiting for the

apothecary to mail it to me---pharmacies here in my small town couldn't mix

it for me, so had to order from Grand Rapids, MI. Will let you know how it

goes......Best of luck to all, LaVonne