#66 - Sexual Dysfunction Expert and More!

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sexual dysfunction expert! Today I am so excited to talk to Dr. Sophocles. She is a gynecologist and sexual medicine specialist practicing in Princeton NJ. She appears regularly on the radio program Sirius XM Doctor Radio. She sees women for menopause and sexual dysfunction concerns as well as general gynecology. You can find her at www.princetongyn.com Welcome! How did you get into menopause and sexual dysfunction treatment? Why do you think sexual dysfunction is so common? Biggest misconception about menopause that you see? Talk about perimenopause – when does it start? How do you transition a woman from birthcontrol/IUD to menopause hormones? When is the right time age wise to start hormones? How long can women be on hormones now? Can hormones help sex lives? Do you have any favorite non-hormonal vaginal moisturizers? @femmepharma Lichen Sclerosis Resources Let’s talk about vaginal lasers. How do you incorporate them into a woman’s plan? Tips for keeping sexually active in the mid-life? What’s in the future for you with this work? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology, to re-educate your brain and help you live your best-to-love life.
0:15.9	And I'm your host, Ford Certified Female Urologist, Dr. Casperson.
0:26.1	Thank you. board certified female urologist, Dr. Casperson. Ladies, today I'm so excited to talk to Dr. Sophocles.
0:29.2	She's a gynecologist and a sexual medicine specialist practicing in Princeton, New Jersey.
0:33.8	She appears regularly on the radio program, Dr. Radio, on Sirius X-M.
0:38.7	She sees women for menopause and sexual dysfunction concerns as well as general
0:42.5	gynecology. And you can find her at www.prinston-Gyn.com. So, Princeton-Gynne.com. Thank you so much
0:51.8	for coming on with me today. Thanks, Kelly. It's really nice to be here.
0:55.9	So tell us, how did you get into menopause and sexual dysfunction treatment?
1:00.3	Well, it was kind of a combination of personal need and demographics. When I finished training as an
1:07.5	OBGYN, I delivered babies and did surgery and really enjoyed that. And then I
1:11.9	moved to Europe for eight years. And when I came back, I was older and so were a lot of the
1:17.2	patients I was seeing. And I moved to Princeton, New Jersey, and there were lots of people
1:22.0	delivering babies, but there was really no one taking care of perimenopausal and menopausal issues, no one taking care of sexual
1:29.9	issues or even women with urologic problems. So it just seemed like my community had a need
1:36.8	and I knew I had training so I knew I could help, but it wasn't until I started treating these
1:43.5	women that I realized
1:44.4	I kind of needed more training. So I started going to courses like NAMs, the North American
1:50.1	Menopause Society and Iswish, the International Society for the study of women's sexual health.
1:57.4	And I learned how much I didn't know. And now I would say I feel very comfortable and competent
2:03.8	treating women with menopausal age issues.
2:08.2	So I did it because my patients demanded it.
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