Hormone Therapy and Menopause: What Cary Women Should Know About Their Options
Hot flashes that interrupt your day, night sweats that steal your sleep, a sense that your own body has become unpredictable. If perimenopause or menopause has brought any of this into your life, you do not have to simply endure it. At Cary OB/GYN, hormone replacement...
3D Mammography at Cary OB/GYN: Why In-Office Screening Makes It Easier to Stay on Top of Your Breast Health
Scheduling a mammogram often means an extra appointment at an unfamiliar imaging center, a new set of paperwork, and another item added to an already full calendar. At Cary OB/GYN, serving Cary and Morrisville, we have made this simpler by offering 3D digital...
Understanding Your Pap Smear Results: A Patient-Friendly Explainer
Getting a Pap smear is a routine part of women's healthcare — but getting the results back can feel anything but routine. Whether your results came back normal, slightly abnormal, or somewhere in between, it's completely natural to have questions. Here's a...
Is It PMS or PMDD? How to Tell the Difference
Almost every woman has experienced it: that stretch of days before your period when the world just feels harder. You're more irritable, more tired, maybe bloated or achey. You might cry at a commercial you've seen a hundred times. For most women, this is PMS —...
Breastfeeding in the Heat: Tips for New Moms This Summer
There is a lot nobody tells you about breastfeeding. One of those things: doing it in a North Carolina summer is its own experience. Between the heat, the sweat, and the logistics of nursing in public, new moms often find that warmer months add an extra layer of...
Do Fibroids Always Need Treatment? What Your Doctor Wants You to Know
You find out you have fibroids. Maybe your doctor mentioned it at your last visit, or maybe it came up during a routine ultrasound. Either way, the word can feel alarming and your first question is probably: Do I actually need to do something about this? The short...
Summer Health Tips: Staying on Top of Your Annual Well-Woman Exam
Summer has a way of filling up fast. Between kids out of school, vacations, and longer evenings that seem designed for everything except health appointments, it's easy to let your annual well-woman exam drift toward fall and then toward the end of the year and then,...
Managing Chronic Pelvic Pain — When to Seek Help
Chronic pelvic pain is one of the most common reasons women visit a gynecologist and one of the most undertreated. Women often describe living with pelvic pain for months or years before seeking care, sometimes because they assumed the discomfort was just part of...
Scoliosis and Pelvic Health: What Women Need to Know
June is Scoliosis Awareness Month, and while most conversations about scoliosis focus on back pain and posture, there's a connection that often goes unspoken: the impact scoliosis can have on pelvic health. For women especially, understanding this relationship can...
Pain Relief for Gynecologic Procedures: What Are Your Options?
Learn about pain relief options for gynecologic procedures, including IUD placement, biopsies, minimally invasive surgery, and personalized comfort care.