Does Your Vagina Need Cleansing? And Other Good Questions with Our Fave Gynecologist
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Girlll you better put that Summer’s Eve down right now! You all had so many questions about vaginal health and we brought the best of the best to answer them all. Dr. Heather Irobunda is an Obstetrician Gynecologist based in Queens, New York who shows women, specifically women of color, that you can feel safe and supported by your gynecologists (not creeped out or shamed). Listen to hear answers to most asked questions about vaginal health that you NEED to know.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- What age should you start going to the gynecologist?
- What age should you get your first gynecology exam?
- How often should you get pap smears?
- How to advocate for yourself at the gynecologists appointment
- Best tips to advocate for pain management at the gynecologist's office
- You’re not crazy for having a painful experience with IUD insertion
- How to pick a gynecologist that’s not a creep
- Should you be cleansing your vagina?
- Are yoni egg’s useful?
- Do we need products to balance vaginal pH?
- How to know if hormonal birth control is right for you
- Can you get pregnant while on birth control?
- What to do if you get yeast infections after using sex toys
- Postpartum vaginal health
- Changes in sex during menopause
- What to do if you have recurring bacterial vaginosis or yeast infections
- Which brand of lube you should have
- Should you use water based or silicone based lube?
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, I'm Wendy. |
| 0:04.1 | And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness. |
| 0:21.3 | We are back. We have another episode for you and it's actually quite funny because I don't |
| 0:26.4 | think we've ever announced that for the previous three episodes we've actually been doing a grooming |
| 0:32.0 | series. And so we did skincare, dental care, care care. And today we are talking about vaginal |
| 0:42.0 | care. So it's funny because we're announcing this within the last episode of this series. |
| 0:47.7 | But it does all kind of make sense for those of you all that are thinking, wow, these girls |
| 0:51.9 | are really going off the rails. Like we planned this as part of a grooming series. And I think this |
| 0:58.7 | episode was the one that our listeners were the most excited about because you also admitted so |
| 1:04.0 | many questions. And our guest today is Dr. Heather Irobunda, who is the OBGYN. |
| 1:11.2 | Yes, Dr. Heather is based in New York and she has worked with thousands of patients, whether it's |
| 1:17.7 | being an active duty member of the army and also New York City Health and Hospitals. And she has |
| 1:24.8 | the best personality and it's interesting because she said this was her low energy and I was like, |
| 1:29.8 | well, girl, this is you low energy. You need to give me some of your high energy because my baseline |
| 1:35.3 | is a lot lower. So so in today's episode we covered everything. All of your questions answered. |
| 1:43.5 | So we go through when you should start getting your GYN exams. Also, there's a lot of confusion |
| 1:50.8 | about pap smears. How often she clears up all the clutter with very specific recommendations. |
| 1:56.4 | We talk about trauma in GYN care and how oftentimes people will act like things aren't going to be |
| 2:03.9 | painful or they don't offer solutions or they don't let you advocate for yourselves. I even |
| 2:09.2 | bring up this question of these creepy GYN ecologists and how to kind of suss out who's a creep |
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