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Just started taking Letrozole. Could the tablets be causing the issues I'm having with my vagina? Very annoying

Sally90
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I have been put on Letrozole on it for a few months after Radiotherapy. I feel okay apart from an itch and an odd sensation in my vagina, doc has given me cream and pressaries but doesn't see to help. Could it be the tablets that cause this or is it cystitis. Very annoying.

Jist wanted to check if anyone else is experienced this. 

Thanks 

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    Hi Sally, I have had 3 lots of radiotherapy, in the last 7 years, the last round in March this year. I kept having dryness and sores around the vulva.  I went to the drs twice and got different opinions so I paid to see a gynaecologist privately.  Turns out I have lichen sclerosis, caused partly by stress and exacerbated by wearing pads for incontinence caused by the radiotherapy. This probably isn't what you have but it would be worth trying to get a referral to a gynaecologist to get a definitive diagnosis

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    Thanks so much for replying awaiting an appointment at the gynaecology dept so hopefully they can help 

    Thank you 

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