I want to use half the applicator of estriol cream once a week instead of a whole one because the first time I use toilet after using the cream half of it falls out anyway. It is helping the constant feeling of burning and feeling as though I have a UTI but apprehensive about using it.
Has anyone gained weight after using it and is it safe to use
Hi. I use Ovestin (which is estriol I think) I use it 3 times a week instead of once - same amount. The GP said it was fine to do it that way. Been using it for 5 years with no ill effect and no weight gain. I’m 58 now.
That's good am going to do the same. I will use half twice a week.
Think it's this hot weather I'm in Scotland and never had heat like it and for so long
olive8,
Hi, I've been using compounded estriol cream for almost 3 years with no problem. I use a cream on the outside daily and a different cream that goes inside as I need to keep things nice down there. Estriol is the safest of the estrogen creams and actually offers some beneficial health benefits for us women now that our bodies are not making enough estrogen to keep things like our tissues healthy. I apply my internal cream at night for best results that way most is getting absorbed where you want it and not coming out as you say when going to the bathroom.
Hi Olive , I am getting now still outer fold irritated, not sure if from the washing, can I ask what you are washing with , the Replens is helping inside but now feeling dryness outer and don't want to keep applying steroid creams either, this is frustrating , glad you're feeling better like I said time will tell with this way or I'll need to do your way
Well I have started using just a very little baby bath and a clean microfibre cloth washed at 60degrees with lots of water maybe three times daily and it hasn't been worse. The GP was in to my son and I told him I was a bit uncertain about using estriol cream and he again told me there were lots of benefits in using estriol cream and he didn't expect me to have any problems at all. I will give half twice a week a try then see if I can have half only every week although GP thinks I will need to carry on once a week for the rest of my life. My daughter tells me to take it she is on HRT for goodness knows what. I know one thing I am feeling better and can't stop using something because I never want to go through what I went through ever again. At least five trips to the bathroom every night and the burning and pain was awful. I was like that, the burning feeling round about but couldn't ever say it was deep inside that's what made me think it was some sort of UTI without the usual headache and feeling you get with UTI. Before I spoke to GP, once or twice I used clotramazole and I thought it helped my GP said not to. It's really annoying and to think it might need something to keep it manageable for the rest of our lives isn't exactly what we want to hear
let me know if you find something that really helps everything
it is so hot I have never experienced heat like this in Scotland before and read today could be like this until August. Had to take our son away fron sitting in wheelchair at front door today the sun wasn't near him but he was getting distressed with the heat.
What is the other cream you use. Someone said they used the other half of the estriol cream to the other bits am going to try something.
You know it does help to hear other people's stories and what helps.
Thank you
Hi Olive,
I am post menopausal and I use a compounded cream that contains a 50/50 mix, of estrodial and estriol, called bi-est. This I use on the outside on the labia everyday to keep my estrogen right. The other is a estriol cream used inside as a maintenance cream to keep those inside tissues healthy. Once our estrogen plummets, which it does to all of us as we near menopause and then eventually no periods brings a bigger drop to our estrogen production. This is why if you get on something that works you will have to maintain it for the rest of your life or things will go back to hurting and being uncomfortable again. Our aging bodies are just not going to produce these hormones in the amounts we need to stay healthy anymore. I have been post menopausal for over three years and started BHRT within 6 months of my periods ending. I am 58 now and feel very good in all areas. BTW, I go to a holistic dr. He has to prescribe these hormones for me. I am also on testosterone which is a big plus for women too. Good Luck!
So glad to have met you Olive, we are far from each other, I'm in New Jersey, been really hot here also. I'm red now outer area, but why it came back who knows even the yeast steroid creams and Replens forever isn't ideal
No think you definitely need something stronger. Try the estriol I used half an applicator last night and propose to use the other half on Saturday night and will keep it going for a while to see what happens. I would say though we need to give it at least a couple of months to have any definite improvement. Whatever is in the estriol cream has definitely helped me. My only concern is will it put weight onto me because something has and it's round my middle. Someone else told me they had used the estriol cream like that for three years with no problem and no weight gain.
Do you have estriol cream in the house? and baby bath -.if you read the label it says properly pH balanced whether that helps us or not I don't know - my daughter says body shop soap is recommended too although who knows. I wouldn't try any soap.
Hope you are feeling better though but if you are struggling with all this like I was give it a try.
Yes it’s very warm! I’m in London and yearning for some fresh air. Good luck with it
I meant to say mine is not completely away it is still there in the background some days worse than others but never as bad as I was originally. I would say it is working but slowly. I read someone saying it could take six months. Am sure I must be coming on for three months.
Sitting down for for half an hour - Wimbledon on do you see Wimbledon in New Jersey.
Gee now I have been awarded a badge - seem to have been on different sites so many times they must think I am a hypochondriac - there was an e-mail from *Patient Forum*
I am having a nasty time with a burning pain in my vagina.I have had many consultations all trying to give their best advice. At the moment I am using Emulsifying ointment BP .3x a day. Dermol 0.05% steroid cream daily and Ovestin cream 3x a week. Iam not getting much relief. I have used the ovestin cream for two and a half weeks.
I have been using the Emulsifing cream for nine days and the Steroid cream for four days. How long does it take for these medicines to work?? I am on 4hourly panadol for the pain . Please some advice or discussion.
Do you need the bathroom often for little painful amounts..Do you have a burning feeling all the time and worse after you have been to the bathroom. Are you post menopausal.
I know treatment does take a few weeks to take effect but it is a terrible feeling.
I put up with it like that for weeks and weeks until one day I said to my GP that I had the terrible feeling of having a UTI all the time and he instantly said it was vaginal dryness lots of post menopausal women get. He gave me estriol cream to use nightly for two weeks twice weekly for two weeks then once weekly for ever more..I did not want to use any oestrogen cream but my doctor told me it was a weak form of oestrogen and he did not expect any problems..Read about estriol cream yourself and it also says there are many benefits from using estriol cream. Anyway I am still using it once a week and it is certainly getting better it's still not 100% better but the burning is mostly gone and my nightly bathroom trips are much less being about five times of nightly agony at one point.
Everyone is different but estriol cream is worth a shot.
No I do not need to go to the bathroom often...... only once a night and no painful urineation. I have been using the Estriol cream for two weeks. So what you are telling me it is a slow healing process??
I am on a steriod cream called Dermol.. Daily.
How much Estriol cream do you use at a time? The Dr has told me to only use it now, three times a week now.
Any feedback gratefully recieved. Thanks.
This is the second time I started to write this, was nearly finished and think I fell half asleep and deleted my message by mistake. I used the estriol cream every night for two or three weeks to start with and can't say it made much difference it was after that it suddenly felt better.
I am still up about three times during the night and I feel like the inside of my bladder is sore but the burning has gone now. I think my problem was well established before I spoke to doctor. It is getting better and am using a whole applicator of estriol split in two Wednesday and Saturday half each. I want to persist with that way for a wee while don't want to use more of the cream than I need. I used clotramazole for a while and thought it was better but doctor wasn't happy with that. Is the Dermol cream you are using making it much better. Someone else on this site was using half and when I think of it when I used a whole tube half of it fell out anyway so maybe the half staying in twice might be better will see. Doctor says the once a week will probably have to be for evermore. Not if I can help it and will try to find something more natural.
Will you let me know how you are getting on I just want this to be over and for it never to be what it was like before I spoke to doctor
would you say you are beginning to feel better with the estriol cream and the Dermol.
Hello are you beginning to feel better. Any information to help is gratefully accepted because still mine is not completely better but better than it was.
Take care
The outer area still bothering me but the Replens is still working, might switch the summer s Eve to the dye paraban free one to see if better, but who knows, it's all try this and that Olive, so strange was wondering also I take hydrochloride water pill and blood pressure pills for many years already to sulfa antibiotics and was even thinking my meds can be adding this but Drs say no
Allergy to sulfa I mean among other things