Year: 2022

Do you experience pain when attempting to use tampons or have sexual intercourse? If so, you may be one of the thousands of women and girls in the UK that has a hymen abnormality. It’s a problem almost never talked about, but it can severely impact on quality of life. Thankfully though there is a…

Did you know there are some gynaecological conditions that affect pregnancy? What’s more, these conditions often lurk without symptoms, meaning many women don’t know they have them. Here at The Gynae Centre, patients who want to conceive often ask: what usually causes miscarriage in early pregnancy and what conditions make you a high-risk pregnancy? Let’s…

Are you seeking help for menopause symptoms? Through menopause and the years leading up (perimenopause), enormous hormone-related changes can affect your mental and physical wellbeing, including your gynaecological health. The symptoms of menopause are many and can hugely affect all areas of a woman’s life – including work, play and even sleep. So what help…

Sexual health is an issue affecting everyone. In 2019 alone, more than 2.74 million people in England attended a sexual health clinic. And every year, hundreds of thousands of Britons are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Over a lifetime, many of us will need to seek sexual health support. Yet despite how common…

Are you experiencing pain in the region below your belly button? This lower abdominal pain is known as pelvic pain. It may feel sharp or dull. It can be either sudden and intense (acute), or chronic – persisting for months. In women, pelvic pain is fairly common and frequently connected to the reproductive system. There…

Do you have any of the following problems? Pain during sex An inability to have sex due to a ‘brick wall feeling’ making penetration impossible Significant pain during a smear test (that may even make you unable to undergo the test) Pain when putting in a tampon, or simply being unable to put in a…

It’s totally normal for women to experience some vaginal discharge – most do. And while it’s not glamourous, it fulfils an important function in guarding against infection and keeping your vagina moist and clean. In almost all cases vaginal discharge is healthy and nothing to worry about. However there are a few things to look…

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer are two gynaecological diseases that share similar symptoms, and are difficult to diagnose. It was previously thought that the two conditions were not linked, despite being similar in nature and location in the body; however, a recent study has shown that endometriosis is genetically correlated with ovarian cancer. Endometriosis is a…

Your vaginal health is dependent on a number of controllable and uncontrollable factors. However, the former far outweighs the latter, which means that, much of the time, the health of your vagina is in your control. When we talk about uncontrollable factors, this could be genetics, age, the type of medication that you may be…

Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the UK, with around 7,500 new cases each year. It is also the sixth most common cause of cancer deaths in women, with around 4,200 deaths each year; however, survival rates are improving and have almost doubled in the last four decades. It’s time to familiarise…