10 Ways Your Health Might Sink Your Sex Life

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For years I was treated with Antidepressants, then a friend explained Grave's Disease and its symptoms. I ran for the doctor's office. They checked my thyroid hormones, and well.. Although they weren't bad enough to diagnos any real illness. It was just slightly low enough to get me to ask a few questions to my doctor. He explained, taking a supplement could help ease the depression and sexual disfunction. So I went down to my local health food store and asked them some questions. Then found a vegetarian thyroid supplement (meaning non-bovine, no animal products). Since then, the depression has lightened as well as the sexual issues. A special note, in the winter I need to take more of the supplement, because I suffer from seasonal depression which its main cause is lack of UV. hmmmmm.... food for thought.

Lea of OH 8:02AM June 23, 2010

I think your comments about not buying most mental illnesses are ignorant and misled. Perhaps you are confused about the difference between lazy, type-B people who are content to sit on the couch all day and people who have actual mental disorders, which can range from mild to crippling. Unless you are a psychiatrist or psychologist, how can you attempt to diagnose and prescribe "natural" treatments?

jenn of NY 9:07PM February 16, 2009

I think it is a good article, i have had thyroid problems since i was a child, now i am 37, and i was unlucky to find the answer until few months ago until i was mistreated with antidepressants for a couple of years because one Doctor thought i was anxious. I have a slight nerve (I have neuropathic pais as well) damage and no one detected and i looked for help many years asking what it was wrong in my life. All was ok in my whole life but my sexual life was not the best, sometimes was ok, sometimes was not. I mean i recognise it is difficult to detect because it was not always the same pattern and T3,T4 and TSH were fine and only until i got insomnic for many months after i tried to wean off lexapro on my own but it was the only way to solve it. Now i am better taking hormones maybe for ever and tegretol for some months. My antibodies were (and are at the moment) extremely high and i think my life would have been easier but it is only a little bit of luck as well, anyway i managed my whole life as good as i have could and i did not do bad but my sexual life was not good. I hope to see those levels fine someday before i die ;-) just need to be patient. I have been patient anyway and i hope to see an improvement in my sexual life, life is not only sex of course. So if you have a problem, this article is a good start and all my life i never thought i had a thyroid problems. Only I think what a waste of time, my only complaint and those were my best years :-(

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dingxiuo of NY 5:12AM January 20, 2009

Depression is the reason in a lot of folk's inability to connect sexually; if you cannot be happy, you don't seek to make yourself happy. Truly depressed people both men and women seem to create scenarios where they are living in a misama of self made negativities and chronic "illnesses" or pain. A LOT of depressed people I have met do not eat well and certainly don't get enough exercise ( a real depression buster! is exercise) AND the vitamin B's, esp Niacin. Taking antidepressents is a last resort, I would start with exercise, St. John's Wort and Vit B. So many get accustomed to misery and the attention it brings so...you have to be ready to give up misery, be thoroughly sick of not being happy anymore. Happiness for most is a choice. I don't buy most mental illnessness. I think this is a pill popping pop pyschology society full of mentally lazy people who give up until they can get a drug.
Direct action from the person through diet and exercise can work miracles. Date a bike rider or jogger! They have increased energy. Which duh! comes from moving the body, getting the hormones and juices flowing.

of CO 10:08AM September 20, 2008

An infrequent disease in the literature, unfortunately more common among women. But don't give up there is help.

Gail S of VA 11:54PM September 19, 2008

Ginseng! Ginseng! Ginseng!

of 10:14AM September 17, 2008

Haha I love that last line you just added. The reason i laugh is my father uses it. It is quite the machine....

John of NY 9:40AM September 17, 2008

This article indicates what drops one's sex life. Fighting diseases and building healthier immune systems is an on-going battle in the United States. If not having sex doesn't scare someone to have better health they are better off not having sex!
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mgdbpt of CA 7:34PM September 16, 2008