Penny Pijnenberg
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So I discussed that with my gynecologist and I'm so glad that she was actually, she said, that's fine.
Here you have a longstanding prescription and just experiment yourself.
Because I also see a lot of women in that support group in different countries where their doctors just refuse to prescribe more.
Or they're saying, oh, it's not helping, but it's probably because they don't, you know, they need more.
So it took me a year.
I needed it at least five times a week.
And now it's all under control and I was able to reverse it.
But it's so, I basically, so that was 2023 when I got properly diagnosed and then it took another year.
So now that was 14 years of, yeah, wasted a little bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, I have the whole picture now, including testosterone, which has been the last thing to really help it.
And now I can really do it two nights a week.
Yeah, with the vaginal hormones.
Yeah, but I'm never coming off them.
Some friends in my circle of women, I've told them, one who had recurring bladder infections, I said, you need to go and get a prescription for this.
And she started another friend who had some issues, who had some doubts about starting hormones, but she was really happy.
And it's like, everybody needs to know about this.
You know, if this was a male problem,
I always try to explain.
So let's see how this was, if this was an issue men have, right?