I had a consultation yesterday with the doctor to schedule the Mona Lisa touch… After five years of urinary trac infections as a result of the atrophy I'm going to go for it… Let me know if anyone here has had success with it or what your results have been if you have had the treatments
Through the holidays went through another UTI with pain and more antibiotics. At wits end
Oh poor you nancyo. Good luck
Sorry you had such an uncomfortable holidays. I hope this procedure works wonders for you.
nancy, I am so glad to hear you are going to have this treatment! I get so angry hearing about all the suffering with so few options for solutions. You will be our frontrunner!! I hope this teatment will be the wave of the future for post menopausal women. It's a ray of sunshine for me, I can tell you that! I wish you the very best. Please keep us informed. I have a ways to go, but if my condition deteriorates I will be in line for it. Did the docotor give you any statitistics worth sharing?
Hi, I've had it for vulva lichen sclerosus and after one treatment been happy. Second treatment on Sunday.
I am scheduled for the Mona Lisa on March 9. I could have gotten in next week but had scheduling conflicts and want some time after the first treatment "just in case" I need I need it. While all these meds may help, I just hate adding more estrogen as I had breast cancer and even though they say not much is absorbed I still don't like using them.
Doctor said has had excellent results, 5 minute procedure, 3 treatments 6 weeks apart then once a year. Will keep you posted on my progress and for me my hope is that the uti's will be gone, he did say the atrophy of the vj also effects the utethea which causes uti. If I get a uti before or after treatment must call him immediately.
will post how I do... am so hopeful
I too don't trust the estrogen and truly it does not help with the uti infections. will post how I do and you let me know your results. Are you in the U.S.? Doctor said 5 minute procedure and I can drive myself home.
My gyn says one of the best "side effects" of the laser treatment is how much it helps the urethral atrophy!! I have scoured every possible reference to the ML treatment online and can't find any negatives...maybe one or two patients who say it didn't help. Most claim it's up there in the MIRACLE range! 👼🏼
So good to hear. My last chance so am feeling positive. I too have scoured everything I can.
My Dr. is just getting the laser this month, and I'm thinking I would like her to practice on a few others first! Although, if she offered it for FREE to test it out, I would be first in line😀
Free would be nice... Stanford said next year they would have a study but just can't wait anymore. I bet in a few years it will be covered but for now out of pocket
Maybe we'll be lucky enough to have the yearly maintenance procedure covered...although I start Medicare in a year, and I'm sure they're not going to ever cover it
I am already on Medicare now. The estrogen cream s very expensive donut would even out. Doubt Medicare will ever cover too
I am on medicare also and the Vagifem costs $100/ month as I use it every other day. I cannot tolerate the creams and the estring is not appealing to me. I cannot use HRT due to breast cancer. So I am stuck at $100/month or $1200/year for vagifem. Then add in the estriol compounded oil and I am at the price of the Mona Lisa treatments. The cost saving when I just need the once a year treatment will be a lot. I would rather pay $500 once a year ( that is what the Clinic charges) than over $1,200 + for
Vagifem. At you can be sure that price will rise !! No, I do not think Medicare will ever cover it. At least not in our lifetime.
Agree in the long run its a
a savings as well as hope because the estrogens don't always help for me and I do worry about increased cancer risks
I think it's money well spent. Auto repairs can easily cost that much. I am on social security and pretty much unemployed, but would be willing to use savings for it if I needed it at this time. I still have hope that insurance will cover it as they do cover men's issues. After all it isn't cosmetic or just to make having sex possible (Viagra is covered). May take a lot of lobbying on women's part, but the more insurance co's and legislators hear from us the greater the chances that it will be covered.
Glad to hear there are other women here who are going to have it so you can compare notes. Good luck to all of you.
I am using savings as I am also retired. Wish I could wait till it is covered but it too long n too painful. Need to enjoy my senior years
I am a Female Urologist practicing in the Seattle area and have performed over 100 treatments on the MonaLisa Touch vaginal laser. There have been minimal side effects. Mostly just increased irritation for a few days. The results have been beyond my expectations as far as improving vaginal dryness and general improvement in the genitourinary symptoms of menopause. Ultimately, I think it's pretty cost effective especial with the recent (unprecedented) increase in drug prices.
karny, do you think the insurance co's and medicare will soon agree to cover it on that basis? Do they listen to what doctors have to say?