Pelvic health: UTIs and vaginal atrophy + probiotics and natural remedies | Liz Earle Wellbeing

As someone who has vaginal atrophy I wanted to thank you Liz for discussing this topic. I don’t think women realise just how common or debilitating this is. Especially at an age where intimacy can drop off a cliff if you don’t tackle this underlying issue. My female doctor was not that helpful to me so to have a community where information is researched and shared is invaluable. 🙏😘

Last year I suffered a UTI (one of many) which resulted in a kidney infection and I was whisked off to hospital.. I was in Perth, Australia staying with my daughter at the time. Intravenous antibiotics were pumped into me, 2 lots, after which they discovered I needed a different antibiotic. A male doctor also suggested I improve my hygiene! Cheek! The long and the short of it is that I have had out of the blue 9 months of awful reflux and abdominal pain along with the unpleasant tests in hospital which I am convinced was caused by the medication. With your help, Liz, I have worked really hard on improving my gut health and am now near fighting fit with the help of copious amounts of kefit, sauerkraut, probiotics, D-Mannose, organic, healthy food and the like. My lovely lady doctor prescribed vagifem which worked wonders and she now has put me on Lenzetto spray HRT after I showed her some of your research. I am 71 and am so happy to be feeling the so many benefits of HRT after years of low mood, UTIs, night sweats to name but a few. Thank you, Liz, for all you do not just for middle age women but beyond!

Extremely informative- thank you so much 👏👏👏

Thank you for the fantastic shout out Liz! All about those two super strains for helping to rebalance the vagina's microbiome 💜

Hi Liz, I have just recommend that my mother watches this and I have sent her the remedies that you share. However, she takes tablets for blood pressure and heart medications and wonders if she will be able to take these as she cannot take St Johns Wort?
I am so grateful that you highlight this subject as I'm sure a lot of women just suffer in silence because they don't actually know that there is something that can help..Thank you.

Do you take d Manos daily or just when symptoms arise? Thank you!

You mention you keep your probiotics in the fridge. Optibac say they don’t need to be kept in the fridge. Is it best for me to put them in the fridge?

Is this the way to spell Dmanose please?🤔

Please, Liz can you put those names of what you recommend? Many thanks 👋🤗🥰🌺🌷🌹🙏🏼

Another fabulous informative talk Liz thank you so much 😊

Thank you so much for this one, have got my Mum to listen as she suffers a lot so she is going to get the garlic capsules etc and see if they help as just keeps getting given antibiotics from the doctor.

Thanks Liz, so helpful, I've just had my 63'd birthday, I have had this problem since @2006/7, it killed my marriage as I had a very unsupportive, insensitive husband who thought two weeks without sex was grounds for divorce, I was finding sex so painful that I was avoiding it. Fast forward 14 years, I've suffered with this during the intervening years, I was given estoril cream to insert nightly which had little or no effect, I was on my own for a long period of time too so that didn't help. No one seemed to understand the pain and distress this was causing me and now of course, my lovely new husband, who is a lot more sensitive and understanding about the problem. I rang my GP to try again for some help, after a telephone appointment I was called in within an hour to be examined, I saw a new female GP, I told her about the pain, my UTI's my sweats and my terrible itchy dry skin all over my body, she examined me, painful! she sat me down and said 'How would you like to try HRT?' I was so grateful, she listened and took on board all the symptoms I'd been telling other doctors about that were just ignored, I was so emotional, when she took my BP it was 197/100..... I had to buy a BP monitor and take readings twice daily for a week and report back to her, she said it was probably high because I was in her surgery and I was upset too, I did this and all was satisfactory, I am now on the patches along with 'Yes' lube every day and so relieved and excited to say we have had a very lovely Christmas with me able to enjoy love making without pain and actually two days running which was un heard of before, it would take me over a week to recover usually! So, it's so good to be listened to at last and get the correct treatment to feel like a normal woman again, A great big thank you to yourself, Dr Renee and Jane Lewis.

Thank you so much for your video.
Can I just check on a day to day bases would you take the probiotic and garlic and if so how many daily?
You take the other only when needed. X

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Do the garlic supplements cause one to have a garlic-smelling breath?

How long do we have to take Optibac probiotics for woman? You're very informative we need people in the community to fight our corner ,thankyou.I'll also be subscribing to your magazine next month Liz. My husband and I will god willing be celebrating our 46th wedding anniversary in october and I've finally converted him to my way of thinking ,all downtown to you liz.Thankyou

Hi Liz, Just wondering do you have any videos on BIS and pelvic pain. I think I have IBS which flares up from time to time and would like to know which probiotics would, thanks.

As of November 2021 Liz Earle Optibac has 1 more additional culture in it

Lactobacillus is for the vagina I break open the tablet and apply the probiotic only this kind inside my vagina to create a protection

The presentation is well,but doctor how can I get the drugs. Pliz advise

What is the garlic that you recommended in this video I was unable to see the brand

I am 49 y.o lady from Manila Philippines. I watched this video and find it very helpful to me. I will try to look around if all these localized estrogen treatment from UK are available here. And if I can afford to buy. I wish they are not very pricey Thanks for doing this video God bless u back

It's great to talk about estrogen replacement therapy. People are kept in the dark about how the creams are made. They are made from female horse urine. The horses are kept in stalls that are so small the horses are unable to move. The horses are hooked up to a catheter which takes their urine. These horses are pregnant or had their foals. The males are sent out to be slaughtered because you cannot get estrogen obviously from a male horse. Once the mare's are unable to produce estrogen they are then slaughtered. This is the most inhumane way to get estrogen replacement. It's disgusting and so dated in medical science it should be banned. Oh and this is happening in Canada.

I discovered your podcast 2 years later and it lines up with the research I'm having to do myself because: Am I the only woman that finds she gets top-notch HRT treatment when she utilizes doctors "outside of the insurance networks, that only accept cash, no insurance"?? When I could no longer afford the multi thousand dollar treatment I was receiving in my mid-50's, and had to start relying on doctors through my Blue Shield of CA PPO insurance (which ain't cheap either!), my general MD was clueless; my new OB/GYN was giving me doses so diluted in comparison to my cash-paid doctors, that all my symptoms are miserable and not being properly handled! I have sex and I can't sit for 3 days after; I have horrific hot flashes leaving me dripping with sweat in my proper work attire, it is miserable! So I am now doing my own research so I can instruct my doctors what to prescribe to me!

Thank u so so much

This has been helpful, thank you.

Thank you for all the suggestions. I have a history of repeated UTI's but in the last year it's more of atrophy symptoms. Have used probiotics for years but they don't seem to work as well so I'm going to order the one you recommended.

Just save me🥹👏🏾

Thank you

Hi Liz, thank you for this video! I’ve just turned 24 and I have been suffering from UTI/cystitis symptoms on a regular basis recently. I know I’m young so I thought my oestrogen levels would be fine, but is it common for young women to have a drop in oestrogen levels? Also I tend to have numb/tingly legs and shortness of breathe, at points where I get these urine symptoms. So I was wondering if that was normal? I’ve spoken to doctors but they either say that you don’t get numbness in legs with UTI or that I could be deficient in vitamin B12 (usually with confused looks on their faces which isn’t reassuring). Thank you for recommending the garlic tablets and others. Im definitely going to try these.🙏🏻

Also I just want to say a big thank you for all you are doing for women’s health in general! My mum has been following you for years and her health has changed and improved so much thanks to your advice and the work you do with different health experts.💗👏🏻👏🏻

I purchased some cranberry supplements for my constant frequent urination due to atrophy, within 3 days my bladder got far worse. I then did some research and was shocked to stumble across some evidence that suggested that cranberry can actually be a bladder irritant. I've reached the point now where I'll be asking my GP for topical oestrogen. HRT has been wonderful but unfortunately the only thing it hasn't helped with is atrophy. I think some of us need both HRT and localised oestrogen.

I found this video so useful, you explained so clearly. At 85 I have had UTI’s for many years antibiotics given, but now have the vaginal atrophy, so painful. I will certainly try things you mention Thankyou.

I've been told my problem is nerve pain and recommended Gabapentin. Not sure it could be nerve pain as I've never ridden a horse or bicycle How else could I have damaged nerves? I have not responded to estradiol or estrogen treatments.

I’m 76 using oestrogen. Just recovering from a vaginal boil. Not a happy bunny. Your video was very comforting and useful, bless you

Great advice. I also just discovered PACs!

D-Mannose

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Please post the names of these supplements here. Thank u

For thus great info,I have been suffering for past 12 wks😂 of urine infection with blood in urine took drs 6th vist to refer me,to urology, constant pain ,rushing in loo 12 was of lower back pain,,I might have kidney ,so hard ,,,,iv just rec0 from long covid now this ,just turn 60 thought we be better ,,,so hard to keep focus ,,,,I'm going on the links of herbal you have said can not connect the links,please can u add inur reply the names

You need to speak up or get a better speaker.

Coconut oil is fantastic

just went into early surgical menopause...so thank you for these tips...