DEAR DR. GOTT: Thank you for your good advice column. Your article about lichen sclerosus helped me to diagnose my condition after being misdiagnosed for two years. Many thanks!
DEAR READER: I am glad I was able to help. I choose to answer certain questions for a number of reasons, including mass appeal (topics such as hypertension, cholesterol, etc.) that will interest many of my readers, topics that interest me, and common conditions that many people are embarrassed to discuss with their own physicians, such as lichen sclerosus. Often women and men will suffer in silence with a common, treatable condition simply because it affects a part of their body that is considered private.
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