Slip Sliding Away
Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina: A gynecologist's guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Are you post menopause and experiencing vaginal dryness, painful intercourse, vulvar irritation, recurrent urinary tract infections, or urinary urgency? Finally, a solution-driven guide that explains all your options to alleviate vulvar, vaginal, and urinary symptoms that result from a lack of estrogen.
“Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina” by Dr. Lauren Streicher will walk you through your options step by step - lubricants, moisturizers, local vaginal estrogens, DHEA, ospemifene, CBD and laser treatments -- so you can make an informed decision about your own vagina!
“Slip Sliding Away” is part one of Dr. Streicher's Inside Information Series, a collection of informative and highly entertaining books targeting specific issues that mid-life women face as they navigate perimenopause and post menopause. The reader will get to know (and love) 49-year-old Francey as she hilariously navigates vaginal dryness, hot flashes, dating, cancer, losing her libido, and incontinence. Each book in the series stands alone or can be read in combination.
5-Star Reviews
“This is the book I’ve been looking for—
So much information my doctors never mentioned & here it is spelled out so clearly. …Dr. Streicher makes an excellent point that we don’t “go through menopause” but enter into it—for the rest of our lives! Why should we be uncomfortable when there are solutions? The book is compact enough to target your specific problems quickly. But also engaging enough that other topics (you may want to know about for the future) catch your eye. It’s surprisingly entertaining & humorous, so the topic is more manageable.”
“A witty and straightforward guide to improving sex in menopause. Some great advice for dealing with vaginal dryness and atrophy. Menopause and getting older doesn't mean you have to put up and shut up shop down there.”
“We don’t have a choice of whether or not we age, but we DO have a choice as women whether we continue to enjoy our bodies and our sex lives! We DON’T have to just be told, “It’s part of aging, get used to it.” This book is absolutely life-changing in the best way. “ PS, it’s also really funny—she has a great sense of humor.”
“This book is a real page-turner for those experiencing menopausal issues. The author is also hysterically funny which makes the book a quick read.”
“One of the most straight forward and informative books I’ve read in a very long time. I would recommend this to any woman in her 40’s or over, so she is prepared for what can happen in your 60’s. Also teaching our daughters to have frank conversations about these change it vitally important as well.”
“Fantastic! I am 78 years old and in a sexual relationship for a year with a man after being celibate for 12 years. I have been doing research but this book is fantastic about explaining things and providing resources. I have been doing a lot of what she recommends, and they work.”
“Humorous, engaging, and laser-focused about what information women of a certain age need - great advice so we can make informed choices! Dr. Streicher’s Slip Sliding Away offers practical information about post-menopausal issues in an easily digestible format. Having loved this first book in the series and its quirky star, Francey, I really look forward to the continuing series”
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Whose Vagina Is This and Why Is It on My Body?
Women are frequently blindsided by not only the physical changes that occur with the onset of menopause but also the dryness, pain, itching, recurrent urinary tract infections, and constant “gotta go” feeling.
Chapter 2
What’s Up Down There?
Men have always had the clear advantage of being able to inspect their genitals with very little effort on their part. Women’s genitals are not quite as accessible, resulting in a lot more uncertainty about what’s normal and what’s not.
Chapter 3
A Walk Down the Feminine Hygiene Aisle
When things seem to be awry, it’s tempting to dash to the store and get a basketful of products that promise to keep your vagina smelling like an English garden. But before you make that expensive run, know which products might actually help and which ones may make matters worse.
Chapter 4
The Lowdown on Lubes
Most drugstores have a dizzying selection of personal lubricants that promise everything from making things more slippery to increasing libido. But the most popular lubricants actually make vaginal tissue dryer! Learn what helps and what harms.
Chapter 5
Moisturizers Are Not Just for Your Face
The battle to keep skin from succumbing to the ravages of time is a never-ending, exhausting process—a battle fought through the regular slathering of moisturizer on your face, neck, legs, and, yes, vagina.
Chapter 6
Rings, Creams and Other Things
When it comes to vaginal estrogen products, you have a lot of choices. All are safe, all are effective, and all require a prescription.
Chapter 7
DHEA-Hey! Hey!
DHEA is the FDA-approved hormone building block that works inside vaginal cells so your own body can produce estrogen and testosterone to treat vaginal dryness and painful sex.
Chapter 8
A Pill a Day to Keep Dryness Away
For those who would rather put a pill in their mouth than in their vagina, ospemifene is a non-estrogen option to alleviate vaginal dryness and painful intercourse.
Chapter 9
Why Mona Lisa Is Smiling
Not only can you laser your face smooth, laser your pubic hair away, and laser off regrettable tattoos—now you can also laser your vagina.
Chapter 10
Other Barriers to Entry
You’ve done it all: bought the lubricants, moisturizers, and every prescription product on the market and even shelled out for a laser treatment. And there is still no way, no how that penis is going in there. Meet your pelvic floor.
Chapter 11
Calling Dr. Google?
Scroll the web and you’re likely to be bombarded with a plethora of advice and products that promise to remove wrinkles, tighten your vagina, cure incontinence, and ensure orgasmic ecstasy. Know how to navigate!
Chapter 12
Finding a Clinician
How to know if the person to whom you are about to bare your soul—and your vagina—is an expert in your particular problem.
Chapter 13
Wrapping Up
It’s overwhelming! Where to begin? And is there any truth to the saying “Use it or lose it”?