1 in 3 get vaginal atrophy – what it is, signs like pain during sex, and cure

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Some of us may feel a little awkward when it comes to talking about vaginas, vulvas and anything ‘down there’. But as half the population are owners of these rather important body parts, it’s high time we got familiar with the conditions that can affect us.

Tonight, on Channel 5’s Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos, Cherry Healy meets a healthcare practitioner, Susannah, who’s experiencing an unsettling and uncomfortable menopause symptom known as hormone induced vulvovaginal atrophy, commonly known as a dry vagina.

While it affects seven out of ten menopausal women, it can actually strike younger women too. Susannah, 53, first noticed that she was becoming uncomfortable in the skin of her vagina in her mid 40s.

But was unprepared for the changes her body was undergoing. “A few years ago I didn’t know what the vulva was,” she admitted to Cherry in tonight's episode. “My toilet paper was a bit pink when I went to the loo.There was one time when I was sitting on the sofa.