When Pelvic Floor Symptoms Don’t Fully Resolve: What Urogynecology Treats and What It Doesn’t
Urogynecology is the right specialty for structural pelvic floor problems. But structural problems aren’t the only thing driving pelvic floor symptoms. If you’ve had a workup, tried a treatment, and still don’t have answers, the missing piece is often hormonal, systemic, or both. Key Takeaways Urogynecology excels at structural problems: prolapse, stress incontinence, and procedural […]
Benign Breast Conditions: What’s Actually Worth Worrying About (And What Isn’t)
Finding something unfamiliar in your breast is one of those moments where your mind immediately jumps to the worst possibility. Most of the time, what you’re feeling isn’t cancer. But “most of the time” doesn’t tell you what to do next, or whether your specific situation needs attention. Direct Answer Most benign breast conditions don’t […]
Hormone Therapy in Portland: What You Should Know Now
By Michelle Sang, MD, FAARM, FACOG Hormone therapy has come a long way from the blanket warnings of two decades ago. If you’ve been told to wait out your symptoms or handed a prescription without much explanation, you deserve a clearer picture. Current evidence supports hormone therapy as safe and effective for most healthy women, […]
When Should You Actually Do Something About That Symptom?
By Michelle Sang, MD, FAARM, FACOG Some symptoms are easy to dismiss. Irregular periods, low energy, a libido that quietly disappeared – these things tend to get filed under “probably stress” and left there, sometimes for years. The harder question isn’t whether something is wrong. It’s whether now is the right time to act. The […]