Susan Smith Facebook ad: “2 Years of Vulva Itch Gone”

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At 55, I scratched my vagina raw in my sleep for two years and woke up with blood under my nails. It's finally gone, and my experience may just help other women experiencing vaginal itching that just never goes away. I'm 55 and in very good health. I went through menopause on the early side, about nine years ago, and I did not get off easy. Hot flashes in the middle of the grocery store. Sheets soaked through at 3am. Crying at commercials. My mother went through the same thing at the same age, so I knew what was coming, and it still knocked me flat. But it ended. The periods stopped, the flashes stopped, and for years after that I felt like myself again. I thought menopause was done with me. About a year and a half, two years ago, my vagina started itching. The itch was incredibly intense and non-stop. It seemed to be all around the vaginal area. The outside, not the inside. I didn't see or feel a rash. Just the itch. My first thought was yeast, because what else is it when you're a woman and it itches down there. I bought the cream from the pharmacy. It burned like crazy, went quiet for a couple of days, then came right back. I bought the 7 day one. Same thing. I had no other symptoms to indicate it could be a yeast infection, no discharge, no odor, no pain, no bleeding. Just an excruciating incurable itch. The itching was about to do me in. I would wake myself scratching. I started wearing fake fingernails so I wouldn't rip myself open in my sleep. Some days I could not leave the house, it was so bad. I swear when it was time to change into my pajamas I would spend a while just scratching my crotch. Sweet relief. So I eventually saw my doctor. She tested me for yeast and for vaginosis, and both came back negative. It made sense to her. Yeast comes with discharge and vaginosis comes with an odor, she said, and I had neither. Just the itch, on skin that looked completely normal. There was nothing on the swab to treat. So she agreed it did not seem like vaginosis or yeast infection, but she prescribed a steroid cream anyway, confident it would relieve the itch, even though we couldn't pinpoint the cause. This cream did nothing. She prescribed another, more potent one. Again, no relief. Coincidentally, I had a few other itches going on at the same time. None of them bothered me the way this one did. They were just there. The inside of my ears itched like crazy, and I put that down to allergies. My daughter teased me about scratching my ear like a dog. My shins itched every winter, especially at night, and I put that down to dry skin and the heating. And the soles of my feet, only after I climbed into bed and turned off the light, and I put that down to being 55. It never once occurred to me that any of it was connected to what was happening down there. Different places, different reasons. That's just what your body does after fifty. Two years is a long time to endure insane itching. I was becoming cranky, upset, and hopeless. It had stopped being annoying a long time ago. It was becoming a form of torture. Another call to my doctor. This time she thought it was possible that, even though it had been nine years since my last period and I was well past menopause, the itching was related to the dry, thin skin women get down there in menopause. She started me on an estrogen cream, once a day. I was hesitant. Menopause was over for me, or so I thought. I hadn't had a single symptom in years. But she's the doctor and I was desperate to stop this itching. So I applied the estrogen cream once a day, diligently, for several weeks. No progress was being made at all. I still itched to the point of madness. I kept at it though, because these things can take time. And because I had nothing else. Then one day I happened to come across an article online by a dermatologist about how women get itchy ears (inside, where you can't reach) after menopause because the skin stops making the fat it's made of (linoleic acid) and dries out. I had the ear thing. I'd had it for a year and blamed my allergies. I checked the other places she listed…sure enough..shins, feet at night, and the outside down there. All of them. I was almost relieved. I'm not crazy! Then I started thinking…what if it was never something touching my skin? What if it was something simple like my skin not getting what it's made of anymore? Every place I itched was skin. Every cream I'd been given was for one spot. The yeast cream was for an infection I didn't have. The steroid was for the surface. The estrogen cream was for the inside (and to be fair that IS what it's for, mine was the outside). I went through all of them. Sure enough. Not one of them was for that. Obviously if down there is the ONLY place you itch, that's not this, go get seen. Same if the skin looks different (pale, white, papery), get it looked at, or if it burns more than it itches. But if your ears itch too, and your shins, and your feet the second the lights go off…keep reading. (Not every itch is this. Mine was.) What she takes for it isn't hormones and doesn't replace hormones, I checked, I was worried about that. It's called Bloom & Bond. Pumpkin seed oil (the cold pressed kind, she said the regular ones are useless) because it's about half that same fat, plus saw palmetto. 2 softgels with breakfast. I ordered a bottle for my ears. I wasn't even thinking about down there. I had given up on down there. Nothing for the first 3 weeks. I kept at it though, because these things can take time. Around week 6 my ears settled and have been fine ever since. Week 8 I took the fake fingernails off. I was super happy. Then I started thinking…when was the last time I woke up scratching? I honestly could not remember. It had gone quiet down there weeks ago and I hadn't even noticed because I was too busy being happy about my ears. Almost two years of agonizing itch because of that. Because my skin stopped getting the one thing it's made of, and nobody, in 2 years and a drawer full of creams, asked me where else I itched. I’ll link it below in case you are interested to read: https://trybloomandbond.com/pages/6-reasons-bloom-bond I am so happy I am back to normal. Jeans again. Sleeping through the night. And if you have itching you cannot solve or get rid of, and it's not only down there, you may want to look into this. They have a 90 day money back thing, which is longer than it took me.

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