{"id":317784,"date":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317784\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:21:09","slug":"stay-well-i-went-to-the-gp-with-an-itchy-vagina-and-was-told-i-had-lichen-sclerosus-what-is-it-and-can-i-get-rid-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317784\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Well: I went to the GP with an itchy vagina and was told I had lichen sclerosus. What is it and can I get rid of it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThis chronic, inflammatory condition tends to be under-diagnosed, but it can have a big impact on quality of life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vulval lichen sclerosus is estimated to affect between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 300 women\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ichen vagina option.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Vulval lichen sclerosus is estimated to affect between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 300 women<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In Queensland, Australia, there is an aboriginal site known as \u2018the wall of 1,000 vulvas\u2019, a rock face covered with hundreds of prehistoric carvings unmistakeably depicting vulvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Closer to home are the Sheela-na-gigs of medieval times \u2013 stone carvings of naked women with prominent vulvas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This chronic, inflammatory condition tends to be under-diagnosed, but it can have a big impact on quality of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898,29782,128197,128198],"class_list":["post-317784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-service-journalism","tag-shp","tag-signature-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}