I Spent Thousands On Vaginal Rejuvenation. Here's What It Did — And Didn't — Do.

The author celebrating her 40th birthday in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. “Like, a lot.” I was sitting in a hospital gown on the exam table at my family practitioner’s office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “You don’t need chemotherapy, and you’re going to be okay.” My doctor was right — I was lucky. She had done the treatments and seemed to be enjoying “successful intercourse.” The type of vaginal rejuvenation treatment I was considering, “gently rejuvenates” the vagina, by delivering a type of therapy known as fractional CO2 laser energy to the soft tissues of the vaginal wall and providing a hormone-free treatment for vaginal atrophy. “I’m sorry,” I said to my husband, after we tried — unsuccessfully — to have sex.