Women's Health Today: The Magazine of the Foundation for Female Health Awareness.

In This Issue:

2 LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER
Stop suffering in silence
3 Boning up on calcium
4 A knee to call your own
5 Infertility: Just the facts
6 HEALTH HEADLINES
What’s making news in women’s health
9 SEX & GENDER MATTERS
The age-HRT link
What new studies show about hormone therapy use
10 On the case
Kathryn Morris challenges herself to better health
14 HEALTHY BITES
Go ahead—Grab a snack!
Satisfy your hunger with healthy choices
16 Complementing tradition
Once on the fringe, many complementary therapies
have moved into the mainstream
17 Blemishes be gone
Solutions for adult acne
18 Weighing your weight-loss options
20 When sex hurts: Help for vulvodynia
22 HEALTHY MOVES
Afraid to get fit?
How to conquer your fitness and health club fears
24 HEALTH SMARTS
Is your cholesterol in check?

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Letter from the founder: Stop suffering in silence

Unfortunately, millions of women continue to suffer from a variety of distressing medical conditions in silence. These conditions include pain disorders such as bladder pain and pelvic pain syndromes, psychosocial diseases, urinary incontinence, migraine headaches, fibromyalgia, female sexual dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome and a variety of menstrual disorders, to mention a few. Many times, women and their health providers downplay these problems, and women either don’t seek medical advice or are unable to identify physicians who can help them.

In this issue of Women’s Health Today, you’ll find an article about a devastating pelvic pain syndrome called  vulvodynia (“When sex hurts: Help for vulvodynia,” page 20). This little-known condition may affect one in six women at some point in their lives, yet many don’t seek treatment. If you suffer from this condition or any other condition that is unique to females and nonfamiliar to your physician, please seek out the information you need to find a knowledgeable health provider. Many support groups or even medical societies are available that can point you in the right direction on a variety of conditions.

You’re the most important member of your health care team. I hope you’ll use the information in this issue and on our Web site, www.womenshealthexperience.com, to be proactive about your health and seek out the care you need.

Sincerely,

Mickey M. Karram, MD

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