"This approval is welcome news, especially when you consider that more than one in four untreated postmenopausal women experience dyspareunia, a symptom of vulvar and vaginal atrophy, which typically does not subside without treatment," says Gloria Bachmann, M.D., Director of the Women's Health Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J. and Chief of the OB/GYN service at the teaching hospital.
PREMARIN Vaginal Cream is the first vaginal estrogen therapy indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe dyspareunia due to menopause. A low-volume regimen of PREMARIN Vaginal Cream can treat painful intercourse due to menopause, restore vaginal tissue, and reverse changes in the vagina that occur with menopause.
"This new indication for PREMARIN Vaginal Cream, with a low volume of 0.5 g and two different dosing regimens -- 21 days on/7 days off or twice weekly -- gives health care professionals and women a new option in treating moderate to severe dyspareunia due to menopause," says Eileen Helzner, M.D., Assistant Vice President, Global Medical Affairs, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
PREMARIN Vaginal Cream is only available by prescription and should not be used if you have unusual vaginal bleeding, have or had cancer of the breast or uterus, had a stroke or heart attack, have or had blood clots or liver problems, are allergic to any of the ingredients in PREMARIN Vaginal Cream, or think you may be pregnant.
The most commonly reported side effects of PREMARIN Vaginal Cream included headache, infection, abdominal pain, accidental injury, and vaginitis.
