Vulvovaginal Atrophy is Common Vaginal dryness and vulvovaginal atrophy is a common problem for women. In the United States alone, 32 million women suffer from vulvovaginal atrophy in perimenopause and post-menopause. The symptoms associated with vulvovaginal atrophy...
Is blood sugar instability related to chronic pelvic pain? The short answer is, yes! Usually, until a person is diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes, they don’t know that they have blood sugar instability. But, there are some simple ways to determine if your...
Up to 80% of pelvic pain is related to endometriosis, and 176 million girls and women worldwide suffer from endometriosis. Helping women to overcome endometriosis requires a multidisciplinary, integrative approach. There is no silver bullet solution to...
Functional Nutrition Treatment Options for Vulvodynia and IBS When the pain of vulvodynia hits – the painful sex, the pain with wearing tight pants, the pain with just sitting through a movie! – you just want it gone. Fortunately, by taking an integrative...
Chronic Pelvic Pain and Autoimmunity… Is there a connection? In my practice, many of my patients who struggle with chronic pelvic pain also have autoimmune conditions. Even those who don’t have clear autoimmune diagnoses, often have autoimmune issues...
One of the reasons that relieving pelvic pain is so challenging is that pain in different systems within the pelvis can overlap. For example, in rats where experimental colitis (colon irritation) was induced, many of the rats also experienced bladder and urethral...