MonaLisa Touch Specialist

More than half of all post-menopausal women suffer from vulvar and vaginal atrophy, a chronic and progressive medical condition that occurs due to a decline in estrogen. However, few discuss the issue, even though it doesn’t resolve without treatment.

Symptoms of VVA include:

• Vaginal dryness
• Irritation
• Postcoital soreness and bleeding
• Loss of pubic hair
• Pale-looking vagina
• Easily traumatized tissue
• Urinary incontinence

The discomfort caused by these symptoms causes your quality of life to decline. Your sex drive diminishes, along with your ability to get aroused and reach orgasm. Some women also report that VVA affects their choices in both clothing and exercise options.

To diagnose VVA, Dr. Patrick Ellis reviews your medical history and do a comprehensive physical examination.

MonaLisa Touch is a type of laser treatment that diminishes the symptoms associated with VVA.  Dr. Patrick Ellis uses MonaLisa Touch to create new blood flow, which leads to healthy tissue growth and causes your vaginal wall to grow thicker, stronger, and more elastic.

When you visit Patrick Ellis OB/GYN for MonaLisa Touch treatment, your doctor applies a numbing cream to your vaginal opening, then delivers gentle laser energy that stimulates a healing response in the walls of your vagina. The process requires three treatments of five minutes each, delivered at six-week intervals.

Dr. Patrick Ellis offers MonaLisa Touch to women who can’t or won’t take vaginal estrogen. It also works well if you haven’t responded to estrogen or similar therapies. MonaLisa Touch even helps if your VVA resulted from treatment for breast or ovarian cancer.

MonaLisa Touch also treats lichen sclerosis, a chronic problem caused by thinning and irritation to the skin of your vulva, as well as both urinary incontinence and urgency.

To have your vaginal symptoms relieved with MonaLisa Touch, call or make an appointment online today with Dr. Patrick Ellis OB/GYN.