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Missionary Impossible: "Where's the Sensation?"

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to recover 'that' sensation.

Read Dr. Gandhi’s latest blog on our FPMRS physicians and the treatments we now provide which can improve your life and your sexual health.

As a gynecologist, my mission is to manage the entire spectrum of women’s health issues. Including...that, ummm, embarrassing topic of sexual functional concerns. Patients trust me enough to discuss even the most intimate of topics. It doesn’t hurt that I too, am a woman, able to understand both the physical and emotional elements of this sensitive subject.

In an abstract published by the International Continence Society, 48% of women reported concerns regarding “looseness of the vagina.” The medical term for this symptom is vaginal laxity syndrome or “VLS.” Often women say to me, “things are different ‘down there.’ I mean, I think things are ‘loose.’ Is that why sex is not the same?”


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