Treating Vaginal Atrophy After Menopause

PREMARIN Vaginal Cream restores vaginal tissue after menopause to help relieve vaginal dryness and
painful sex.

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To help relieve vaginal dryness and painful sex, ask your health care professional about PREMARIN Vaginal Cream.

About Vaginal Dryness and Painful Sex

Many women experience changes in vaginal tissue after menopause that can lead to vaginal dryness, itching and burning, and painful sex. These vaginal tissue changes are called vaginal atrophy and they may cause vaginal discomfort.

If you are experiencing bothersome vaginal symptoms, understanding what vaginal atrophy is, and what causes it, can help you understand the importance of finding a treatment that can help address the underlying cause.

Some menopausal symptoms can diminish once your transition through menopause is complete, but not vaginal atrophy. Vaginal atrophy doesn't go away on its own, and, if it's left untreated, it can get worse over time.

What causes vaginal dryness and painful sex?

Vaginal atrophy, which can lead to vaginal dryness, itching and burning, and painful sex, often occurs during menopause because your body is making less of the female hormone estrogen. Lower estrogen levels can trigger a variety of menopausal symptoms, including vaginal atrophy.

Vaginal atrophy means:

  • There may be less vaginal lubrication
  • Tissues in and around the vagina become thinner and less elastic

As a result of vaginal atrophy, you may experience:

  • Dryness, burning, and itching in and around the vagina
  • Vaginal discomfort during sexual intercourse, or painful sex

If you're experiencing any of these symptoms, it's important to talk with your health care professional. Talking about vaginal discomfort can be embarrassing, but your doctor might not ask if you don't bring up the subject yourself. One way to help get the conversation started is to print and fill out the Doctor Discussion Checklist and bring the checklist to your appointment.

What can you do to get relief?

Low levels of estrogen in the body are the cause of vaginal atrophy at menopause. To help relieve the vaginal dryness and painful sex that may come with vaginal atrophy, ask your health care professional about PREMARIN Vaginal Cream.

PREMARIN Vaginal Cream treats the underlying cause of these symptoms and can restore the vaginal tissues that provide elasticity and lubrication.

And you won't have to use PREMARIN Vaginal Cream forever, just for as long as symptoms of vaginal atrophy are bothering you.

Learn more about treating vaginal dryness and painful sex after menopause with PREMARIN Vaginal Cream.

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Important Safety Information

What is the most important information I should know about PREMARIN Vaginal Cream
(an estrogen mixture)?

  • Using estrogen-alone may increase your chance of getting cancer of the uterus (womb)
  • Report any unusual vaginal bleeding right away while you are using PREMARIN Vaginal Cream. Vaginal bleeding after menopause may be a warning sign of cancer of the uterus (womb). Your healthcare provider should check any unusual vaginal bleeding to find the cause
  • Do not use estrogen-alone to prevent heart disease, heart attacks, strokes or dementia (decline in brain function)
  • Using estrogen-alone may increase your chances of getting strokes or blood clots
  • Do not use estrogens with progestins to prevent heart disease, heart attacks, or dementia
  • Using estrogens with progestins may increase your chances of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, or blood clots
  • Using estrogens with progestins may increase your chance of getting dementia, based on a study of women age 65 years or older
  • You and your healthcare provider should talk regularly about whether you still need treatment with PREMARIN Vaginal Cream

PREMARIN® Vaginal Cream is used after menopause to treat menopausal changes in and around the vagina and painful intercourse caused by these changes.

It should not be used if you have unusual vaginal bleeding, have or had cancer of the breast or uterus, had a stroke or heart attack, have or had blood clots or liver problems, are allergic to any of its ingredients, or think you may be pregnant.

Most common side effects include headache, infection, abdominal pain, back pain, accidental injury, and vaginitis.

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