At Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics, all of our staff at both our Lawrence and Leawood locations are women. So of course we celebrate National Women’s Health Month.
This year’s theme aims to empower women to speak up about their health-related concerns and needs. A 7-day series beginning Mother’s Day will address women’s mental, reproductive, and heart health to promote a supportive environment.
In observance of this, the team at Regain decided to dedicate our May educational articles to exploring women’s sexual and hormonal health. Our articles address the following topics:
- Hormone testing
- Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
- Hormone optimization
- Vaginal dryness
- HRT for menopause
For this article, we are discussing vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park, an intimate conversation not all women feel comfortable approaching. So we’ve taken the first step! Let’s discuss all the treatments and benefits of vaginal rejuvenation and urinary incontinence treatment.
Why is vaginal health important?
Discussions surrounding vaginal health may often get overlooked, especially when you can chalk it all up to aging. With loss of interest in sex and vaginal dryness, some women may just simply accept these changes without asking the important question of “why?”
At Regain, we always ask the why, because we know that leads us to discovering the best treatment for you. Vaginal-related concerns can happen to women regardless of age or life stage, but that doesn’t make them any less valid or treatable.
Vaginal dryness, laxity, and urinary incontinence negatively affect your quality of life. How can you enjoy life’s greatest moments when you feel a burning, itching, or sore sensation in your vagina? Even worse, dryness also increases your risk of yeast infections and urinary tract infections. Vaginal rejuvenation addresses these concerns and also improves your sex life and sexual health.
Sexual Health Is _ Health
A healthy sex life is highly sought after, and for good reason. Sex strengthens relationships with your partner, and also just makes you feel good. That’s why we here at Regain want to help you reignite your sex life with vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park. Proper sexual function improves the following aspects of health:
- Mental Health: Sexual activity reduces stress and anxiety while increasing your happiness, levels of trust, and ability to identify and express emotions.
- Immune Health: Immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies play a role in your immune response. Regular sexual activity increases your body’s production of IgA antibodies, improving your ability to fight off infections.
- Physical Health: Increased heart rate, lowered blood pressure, and strengthened muscles are all benefits of sex. If you think about it, sexual activity sometimes feels like light (and very enjoyable) exercise.
- Intellectual Health: Sexual activity enhances brain function and improves memory because it boosts the release of oxytocin and dopamine.
Let’s not forget that you don’t need a partner to enjoy these benefits. You can perform sexual activity and achieve orgasms on your own. Masturbation can also improve overall health, and may even lead to reduced vaginal dryness and enhanced sexual pleasure when engaging with a partner.
What’s causing vaginal discomfort and dysfunction?
When it comes to changes within your vagina, we always look at your hormone levels. Throughout our lives, our hormones fluctuate with every life stage. Birth control, puberty, childbirth, breastfeeding, and menopause all cause a drop or rise in estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone. Other factors like stress, medications, and disease or illness also contribute to discomfort, causing women to seek vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park.
Some common signs and symptoms we see in our office include the following:
- Dryness and itching
- Decreased libido
- Trouble with lubrication
- Decreased sensation during sex
- Pain during sex
- Urinary incontinence
- Vaginal laxity
What is vaginal rejuvenation?
At Regain, we offer minimally to noninvasive procedures to address vaginal dryness, loss of sensation, painful sex, and urinary incontinence.
These treatments benefit the health and sensitivity within your vagina, while also improving your overall health and well-being.
Your Options for Vaginal Rejuvenation
Depending on your preferences and symptoms, we have a variety of vaginal rejuvenation treatments to reignite your sex life and restore your confidence.
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Remember how we mentioned that vaginal dysfunction can indicate a hormonal imbalance? That’s because estrogen supports the health of your vaginal tissue. The decline in estrogen leads to thinner, less elastic vaginal skin and tissue, causing dryness. Low estrogen levels also lead to thinning bladder tissue, reduced elasticity, and weaker bladder support muscles, compromising urinary tract health.
Hormone replacement therapy at Regain uses bioidentical hormones that chemically match our own natural hormones. Sourced from plants like wild yams, this therapy restores your estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone levels to a healthy balance. Hormone therapy has additional benefits alongside vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park—not only does it improve your vaginal health, it also promotes the following:
- Better sleep
- Reduced hot flashes
- Improved mood
- Increased energy
- Improved hair and skin health
This treatment allows for customization based on your unique biology. We offer injections as our preferred method of administration, but you can also receive pellet therapy or oral tablets. Treatment duration is entirely up to you; this therapy is designed for lifelong use, meaning benefits don’t have to stop.
O-Shot
O-Shot, short for “Orgasm Shot,” helps women achieve a quicker and more powerful orgasm more frequently. As another bonus, this shot can also reduce or eliminate the possibility of urine leakage and stress incontinence. This platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection increases circulation, strengthening vaginal and clitoral tissues, and increases your skin’s elasticity.
For the O-Shot, your provider will draw a sample of blood from your arm and spin it in a centrifuge. This creates a concentrate of platelets in plasma, which contain growth factors crucial for tissue repair. Before we inject the plasma into specific areas of the vaginal tissue, we provide you with a local or topical anesthetic to prioritize your comfort. This treatment option for vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park requires no downtime, and results last for 6 to 12 months.
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Oxytocin
Oxytocin is a natural hormone that plays a major role in romantic attachment, sexual arousal, and trust—the pillars of building a relationship. Most people call it the “love hormone” for that reason. We provide it through a nasal spray, in an effort to promote positive feelings and relaxation and decrease mental and physical anxiety.
PT-141 Injections
PT-141 injections, also known as bremelanotide, enhance your libido by making the idea of sex more appealing and the act more satisfying. While you may not have the actual desire to have sex, you may wish you had that desire. These non-hormonal injections trigger mental and physical desire by stimulating brain receptors involved in sexual response.
Morpheus8v
It’s amazing what you can achieve when you combine radiofrequency (RF) energy with microneedling. In aesthetics, we use this technology for skin rejuvenation and texture repair. For sexual health, we rely on this combination to improve vaginal health after pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, or hormonal changes.
You wouldn’t think to use microneedling for vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park, but this treatment effectively improves health and sexual function. Microneedling involves using a specialized device fitted with tiny needles to create micro-injuries in your skin, triggering your body’s healing process.
Radiofrequency energy heats the deeper layers of tissue through the microwounds to stimulate collagen production. Collagen provides your skin, muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue with strength, structure, and support.
We know that this sounds painful, but don’t worry—we apply a numbing cream to keep you comfortable.
After a series of 3 to 4 sessions, each lasting 30 to 45 minutes, you can experience the following benefits from Morpheus8v:
- Improved sensations
- Enhanced sexual enjoyment
- More vaginal lubrication
VTone
Using electromagnetic stimulation, VTone contracts the pelvic floor muscles, giving you an intense workout. Think about Kegels—these exercises involve tightening and releasing the muscles in your pelvic floor to help with urinary, urge, and fecal incontinence. VTone works similarly, but much more effectively, to strengthen your pelvic floor. After a series of 6 sessions spread out over 6 weeks, you can enjoy relief from urinary urgency and incontinence, improved pelvic floor strength, and increased sexual sensation.
FormaV
Forma V is a great option for vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park because it addresses the following concerns:
- Sexual dysfunction
- Urinary incontinence
- Vaginal dryness
- Vaginal laxity
Using RF energy, FormaV stimulates collagen production and tightens the vagina for increased sensation and improved external and internal feminine health.
After a series of 3 sessions, each lasting 30 minutes, you’ll experience improvements in comfort and confidence.
Why come to Regain?
At Regain, you’ll find a team who encourages you to speak up about your health-related concerns. We’ve heard it all, and some of us have lived through the same concerns you’re experiencing. Throughout the process, we make sure you’re informed about why you’re struggling with vaginal dysfunction, how to fix it, and what your options are. We provide comprehensive consultations and tailor every treatment to the individual.
Find Support at Regain
For Women’s Health Month, set a good example to all the other ladies in your life, both young and old. The first step requires talking about the intimate struggles you’re experiencing. We promise that you’ll feel heard, educated, and empowered when you step into our office to explore your options for vaginal rejuvenation near Overland Park.
You can get started now by trying our treatment planning tool, or you can request an appointment to speak privately with someone in person.
