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Femplus Fertility Clinic

Whatever you have just started trying or already receiving treatment we offer you a practical and logic step by step help in diagnosing and treating fertility issues.

Femplus Fertility Clinic want you to achieve your goal of having a family.

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An early pregnancy scan for peace of mind.

An ultrasound performed in the first trimester can give you a lot of reassurance while you wait for your first hospital appointment.

Femplus Gynaecological Clinic

Whatever you are worried about, an infection, period issue or a specific gynaecological problem, Femplus have the expertise to help you.

A simple visit to our specialist gynaecological clinic can help to diagnose and treat a lot of common problems. In our clinic you can have a pelvic ultrasound at the same time as the consultation without having to be referred elsewhere.

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Achieving normal vaginal function after breast can

Achieving normal vaginal function after breast cancer is possible but oestrogens might not be enough
#breastcancer #vaginalatrophy #hrt #vaginallaser

I suggest listening to this podcast. Good chat on

I suggest listening to this podcast. Good chat on facts on hormones and why not everything that we feel is wrong with us might be hormone related.
#hrt #menopause

Eight weeks ago I had an herniated lumbar disc. I

Eight weeks ago I had an herniated lumbar disc. I had difficulty in walking and I was in constant pain.
You might have seen me in the clinic standing at the desk instead of sitting down and limping in the corridor.
I am back to normal thanks to the help of my wonderful physio Elaine and thanks to working very hard at my daily exercises. Sometimes we would like easy solutions to a problem but staying fit and healthy requires commitment and hard work.
This is me rock climbing with my 22 y old nephew.
Probably not my wisest choice but was really delighted to do it.

IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE LOW DESIRE You should ask y

IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE LOW DESIRE
You should ask yourself these questions:
-do you ever notice your body turning on in response to a sex scene on tv?
-dose desire kick in once you have started having sex?
-do you and your partner know what triggers your desire?
-does sex start the same way, follow the same order each time?
-how pleasurable is your sex experience?
-how does sex make you feel in comparison to other things you might think are a better use of your time?

Sex communication is really difficult in a relationship, more difficult in a long term relationship.
Also difficult is to maintain sexual currency.
Passionate kissing is one of the most natural triggers but is usually only done before or during sex. It does not have to be just done to initiate sex but can be used to maintain closeness and desire.
Many women feel the need for closeness but they avoid it because they are afraid it will lead to sex and they refrain from general physical contact.

What intervention are needed?
-you need a good vagina
-if you experience pain or discomfort during sex that is not normal and you should seek medical treatment
-most women don’t need testosterone but need to understand how desire works

Useful resources:

TED TALK
Karen Gurney
-The surprising truth about desire and how to future proof your sex life
-the truth about faking orgasms

Dipsea app
Is an app for audio erotica
Useful to test your response to triggers
#hrt #menopause #lowlibido #testosterone

HOW DOES DESIRE WORK? What actually scientificall

HOW DOES DESIRE WORK?
What actually scientifically happens is that arousal comes first. That is when our body responds to triggers. In sexual research the vast majority of people who report low desire will have a normal response to specific triggers.
For the response to the trigger to happen we need to listen and if our mind is occupied by other thoughts and worries this will shut down the trigger response. This is a normal biological event. Higher cognitive loads (like the worry of feeling pain during sex, the worry about how our body looks) will decrease and stop our normal biological sex response.
In addition to all of this sex has to have a good currency value. If our sexual experience has been low in pleasure or orgasm our body and mind will not value it and we will have no motivation to move towards it.

Desire has to have all the following components:
1- we need the automatic response to a sexual stimuli
2- we have to pay attention. If our head is full of other things we will shut down our natural response. Normally women tend to have a higher workload as household managers and that has a huge impact on response to arousal.
3- we need to have a good past experience and memory attribution (women were raised not to approach sex freely because it can cause unwanted pregnancy, ruin your reputation and it is more for the man pleasure and reward. This is why problems are more common in heterosexual couples)
4- we need the incentive because there is a reward
#hrt #menopause #testosterone #lowlibido

At last BMS meeting we had a wonderful lecture fro

At last BMS meeting we had a wonderful lecture from Dr Karen Gurney on sex and libido.
Many women report low libido as a common symptom but it is very important to understand how desire works if you want to improve your sex life. IF you expect an easy fix you are going to be disappointed.
I will share a summary of the talk and add resources at the end.
It is a bit long wo I will divide it.

WHAT IS LOW DESIRE OR LOW LIBIDO?
👉Sex is not just a biological event depending only on hormones.
There is a misconception that low desire happens because of menopause and that all women will need testosterone supplementation to fix it.
The reality is far more complicated than that.

👉Reporting low desire is very common in women at different ages.
Most likely the reality is not that the desire is low but that the expectations of what desire should be are incorrect.
👉Desire is not an internal drive (like hunger) but it depends on external factors.
Unlike hunger the less sex we have the less sex we want to have.
👉There is no “normal” level of desire so we perceive as abnormal might in fact be completely normal. Not feeling like having sex out of the blue is very common and normal.
👉The most likely reason for this is being in a long term relationship and we do not emphasize enough how normal this is.
We get our ideas of what sex should be like from television and medias and we think that if we do not feel like what we see there must be something wrong with us.
👉Most women think that desire should come by itself if we love our partner. They expect it to magically happen. This concept is incorrect because that is not how our bodies work.
#menopause #hrt #testosterone #lowlibido

DRY eyes on HRT? Somebody asked me this week what

DRY eyes on HRT?
Somebody asked me this week what to do with dry eyes if already on HRT. While this is one of the symptoms on those symptoms checker lists we have to be careful to presume that anything wrong with us is hormone related. That is my main reason no to use those lists!
👉We have seen a number of patients over the years dismissing symptoms just because they thought were menopause related. This can lead to a delay in diagnosing other medical conditions.
👉My general advice is that if a symptom does not go away with hrt you have to think again and arrange proper investigations.
#menopause #hrt #menopausesymptoms

WEIGHT GAIN ON HRT: Hrt does not cause weight gain

WEIGHT GAIN ON HRT:
Hrt does not cause weight gain.
Menopause itself and ageing cause weight gain. Unfortunately in menopause we have changes in our metabolism, increased insulin resistance and an increased tendency in putting on weight especially around our waist.
This process is not reversed by using hrt. It is also not reversed by any of those supplements your Instagram and Facebook account is probably plagued with (like mine).
There are some specific approaches that work better and that is the reason why we have a specific diet plan for our menopause patients. It does require hard work, nothing happens by magic.
Check our linktr.ee for more information.
https://femplus.ie/services/diet-plan/
#hrt #menopauseweightgain #menopauseweightloss

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