Vaginal Moisturiser Brand Recommendations Please?

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Is anyone using a vaginal moisturiser and happy to recommend a brand? I'm in my second month of HRT and haven't had much of an improvement in vaginal dryness yet; I'm not sore or itchy or anything like that, but my vaginal skin is dry.

Yes is a very popular brand, I’m using sylk at the moment and ovestin cream because I can’t have HRT.

You need vaginal estrogen. Many women use 'full' HRT and vaginal estrogen. Your GP can prescribe either Ovestin (cream to insert and also use outside too) or Vagifem (a tiny pessary.)
It can also take systemic HRT a few months to reach 'those parts'.

Don't faff around with over the counter stuff unless you need it on top of all of the above.

Ovestin internal oestrogen cream - you can use it up to 4 times a week and externally as well (it says twice a week but menopause specialists at Newson Health clinic have told me it’s safe up to 4 times a week). You can get it prescribed.

I sometimes use Replens but be aware that it may give you a white lumpy discharge- it’s the dead skin cells clumping together and the more you use it the less it gets but many people don’t like that. Replens is hormone free and you can either buy it from a pharmacy / Amazon or have it prescribed.

Thanks. I'm due a telephone review with the doc in a few weeks so I will wait and mention it and see if I can get something prescribed first and give it a try.

I’ve been using Estriol vaginal cream, prescribed by my doctor, for a few weeks so far. It seems pretty good.

(FYI, it contains peanut oil which may be problematic for some.)

I’m also taking Qlaira (combined contraceptive pill) as it was such agony having my old Mirena out, there was no way I was getting another one put in.

It’s likely I’m in menopause, but there’s a small possibility the Mirena has made my hormones really wonky, so my periods might still come back. I’m late 40s.