Dr. Rena Malik

They'll do too many Kegels and they'll develop high tone pelvic floor because they don't really know how to do them. And they're just clenching, clenching, clenching, clenching, and they're not relaxing. It's just like going to the gym. You need to have rest. You need to relax the muscle in between sets. Very similar for doing Kegels. You need to actually relax the muscle.

They'll do too many Kegels and they'll develop high tone pelvic floor because they don't really know how to do them. And they're just clenching, clenching, clenching, clenching, and they're not relaxing. It's just like going to the gym. You need to have rest. You need to relax the muscle in between sets. Very similar for doing Kegels. You need to actually relax the muscle.

They'll do too many Kegels and they'll develop high tone pelvic floor because they don't really know how to do them. And they're just clenching, clenching, clenching, clenching, and they're not relaxing. It's just like going to the gym. You need to have rest. You need to relax the muscle in between sets. Very similar for doing Kegels. You need to actually relax the muscle.

And so it's important to sort of do those with caution if you're going to do them. And then there's also a whole host of other things. But since we've been talking about hormones, the vestibule, which is this area right outside the vagina, is very hormone sensitive.

And so it's important to sort of do those with caution if you're going to do them. And then there's also a whole host of other things. But since we've been talking about hormones, the vestibule, which is this area right outside the vagina, is very hormone sensitive.

And so it's important to sort of do those with caution if you're going to do them. And then there's also a whole host of other things. But since we've been talking about hormones, the vestibule, which is this area right outside the vagina, is very hormone sensitive.

So that can become exquisitely tender during perimenopause and menopause, or if you're taking certain medications when you're younger, like oral contraceptives, that can become exquisitely tender, and then that can cause problems and pain with sex. So there's a whole host of things, but those are just kind of a few of the more common ones.

So that can become exquisitely tender during perimenopause and menopause, or if you're taking certain medications when you're younger, like oral contraceptives, that can become exquisitely tender, and then that can cause problems and pain with sex. So there's a whole host of things, but those are just kind of a few of the more common ones.

So that can become exquisitely tender during perimenopause and menopause, or if you're taking certain medications when you're younger, like oral contraceptives, that can become exquisitely tender, and then that can cause problems and pain with sex. So there's a whole host of things, but those are just kind of a few of the more common ones.