Vaginal Vulva Health blogs
Blogs about vaginal vulva health to help you on your health journey.
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Vaginal health: How to support your body naturally and effectively
Vaginal health is a key part of overall wellbeing, yet it’s often misunderstood or ignored until something feels wrong. Recurrent infections, discomfort, odour, or irritation are not just 'bad luck', they are signs that the vaginal ecosystem is out of balance.
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Disabled by Thrush
Recurrent thrush can cause permanent vulval nerve damage, yet women receive no warning. Medical bodies have known about the link between severe thrush infections and vulvodynia for years, but prevention strategies remain non-existent. This is one woman's story of preventable disability and why the healthcare system must do better.
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Rethinking Comfort in the Speculum Exam
Speculum exams are a vital part of women’s health care, but they’re often remembered with dread rather than comfort. Patients deserve agency, providers deserve better tools, and both deserve an exam experience that feels respectful. In this blog, Dr. Emily Fitch explores how comfort can be improved on both sides of the exam and how innovation is helping to reimagine the process.
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Menopause and vaginal health: The effects of low oestrogen and what to do about it
Menopause is a natural part of life, but it brings changes that aren’t always easy to talk about - especially vaginal health.
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Pregnancy-related Pelvic Girdle Pain: it is time to LEARN a NEW tune!
Why do tunes get stuck in our head? We like the tune or maybe we just heard it recently! For the same reason, we get stuck into treatment patterns because they are comfortable and familiar.
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Why pelvic pain isn’t all in your head — and what you can do about it
Pelvic pain is real, not 'all in your head.' Learn from a pelvic pain specialist physiotherapist in Jersey about causes, treatments, and evidence-based strategies to manage chronic pelvic pain.
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My journey with levator avulsion
In 2017, I sustained injuries while giving birth to my first child. At the time, I knew things didn’t feel right. I went to see a few different medical and allied health professionals in the hope of someone telling me why I felt the way I did, but no-one did.
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Painful orgasm: understanding and overcoming Dysorgasmia
Orgasms can be the very welcome grand finale of an intimate experience. But if you’re someone who feels pain instead of pleasure at the peak moment, you’re not imagining it — and you’re not alone.
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Lichen Sclerosus
I want medical professionals to have training on Lichen Sclerosus and Vulva Cancer. I want leaflets in all surgeries and hospitals. I want children to be taught about Lichen Sclerosus in Sex Education lessons at school.
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Vulval cancer
Clare Baumhauer is a courageous UK-based advocate who co-founded Lichen Sclerosus & Vulval Cancer UK Awareness alongside Emma Norman. Her story is one of deep resilience, having endured decades of misdiagnosis before finally receiving a diagnosis of lichen sclerosus and vulval cancer in her 30s.
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