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All things bladder related / Re: Vagifem

« on: May 19, 2010, 11:38:46 AM »

I wondered if anyone had any comments on Vagifem.  I am 64 and have recently been prescirbed Vagifem.  I had several Bladder infections this year and last year.  Always wanting to go to the toilet.  My Doctor prescribed Vagifem for me 6 weeks ago, and after inserting 3 of the applications over 3 nights, I started to feel better.  I have to go back in another 6 weeks, but hope that I am not taken off Vagifem. I now realise how bad I had been feeling.  Passing water probably up to 9 times from waking at 7am to Noon.

Anyone else taking Vagifem ??

Dear Sandypiper
After reading the 'Menopause Matters' website about dry vagina, cystitis & Vagifem, and having had, as you have, repeated bladder infections and cystitis (I think) - the surgery seem utterly bored by post menopausal irinary problems - I asked my GP to prescribe Vagifem.
I've been on it for about 9 days now and the cystitis is finally subsiding - Allelujah! - and though I've been avoiding sex (another subject!), which always seems to make the cystitis/UTIs worse,  the one time we had sex the v.unpleasant initial pain I've had for several years was absent - Allelujah!.
I just thought I'd write about what I've found about the prescribing of Vagifem:
 The initial dose is one a day for 2 weeks, then just twice a week indefinitely, because menopause problems don't just go away, with an annual review with a health professional.
So far I do recommend it.

Postscript:
I do get migraines, about 3 a year, and after 10 days on the Vagifem, I got a persistent headache which didn't respond to Paracetamol or Iboprufen, so I stopped the Vagifem. It does warn that a side effect could be migraines; the headache then did go away. I'm intending to now just use the Vagifem just twice a week. Put one in this morning, and the headache is back, but I'll persist and see if it settles down. Not having the Cystitis or intercourse pain is worth a lot.