Premenopausal

Women who are happy with their premenopausal sex life are a lot more likely to be able to maintain that satisfaction post menopause.

But when women with repeated UTIs were given supplemental estrogen through the vaginal canal, he said the hormone restored the integrity of the bladder's cellular lining to that of healthier tissue seen in younger, premenopausal women.

The women were 29 to 46 years old at the beginning of the study in 1993, and 93 percent were premenopausal.