Hear how vaginal atrophy has
affected real women

JACKIE: I associate vaginal dryness with being sore and burning after having a relationship.

KYRIACOU: It's sore, it's there constantly on my mind. Also, it is itchy, it’s is not a very nice experience to have.

SHEILA: You can actually feel a tightness inside.

CAMILLE: Painful sex.

JACKIE: Kills all spontaneity.

KYRIACOU: I didn't even know that you get vaginal dryness if you went through the menopause, I did not have a clue.

CAMILLE: There's no lubricant there, there's no sensation as such.

JACKIE: I knew from jokes on the telly and various innuendos over the years that older people didn't have sex anyway so it didn't matter. But it does matter.

KYRIACOU: Having a younger husband who, you know, sexually active. That also, it doesn't help with the psychological part of it because I feel that I'm failing as a woman. To me it's not a taboo, but to a lot of women it’s still a taboo and they won't talk about it and I wish they did.

SHEILA: I'm actually quite surprised.

JACKIE: That's quite shock.

KYRIACOU: Honestly, I did not know.

CAMILLE: I didn't know that it was that high.

SHEILA: I was not aware it was a progressive condition.

JACKIE: Like anything that goes wrong in the body, I think there's a lot of silence and maybe if we're more direct about problems people will smile a bit more and think, do you know what? I'm not the only one going through this.

SHEILA: If there was a treatment out there, I would take it.

KYRIACOU: It would mean so much. It would mean that I could wear the clothes I want to wear. It would mean that I could have sexual intercourse with my husband without feeling that I'm not a woman enough. Oh, it'd be wonderful.