When I was overweight, very overweight, my husband and I didn't have sex very often. I now realize he just wasn't as attracted to me. And not just physically but the whole package. I was in a rut and I didn't feel well and was probably not a happy person to be around. I was the one who was always interested in sex and was always frustrated. But when we did have sex, it was always good and mutually satisfying.
Now that my thyroid is mostly fixed (still trying to get the dosage right) and I've become more active and dropped a lot of weight and have become a happier person, our sex life has picked back up. The irony?
Now it's not mutually satisfiying.... Like almost ever. I first thought it was the blood pressure medicine, but I have been off of those since June or so. It's the thyroid medicine, or so I think. The problem started very soon after starting those meds.
I mentioned it to my doctor and he said that it's probably my hormones all out of balance that is doing it, but when my thyroid was really low, I had NO problems there. Now that it is close to normal (not quite yet), nearly impossible with a partner or solo.
What the heck do I do? I try googling about it and if it's the meds it is an extremely rare side effect. I need the thyroid meds as without it all sorts of bad things were happening to my body... So these are my choices: a healthy life and a husband who is sexually attracted to me again and I still have the desire, but it's not very satisfiying or an unhealthy body, but a better sexual response. Not really a choice, but this is beginning to really bother me. It's been overe a year of this and it has gotten worse as my meds have gone up to try to get my hormones at a right level.
How fair is life sometimes, huh? I know... I need to talk to my doctor about it some more, but I would hate to have to go on more meds just for a better sex life... Part of the whole reason I wanted to get healthy and to drop weight was to stay off meds (diabetes meds and blood pressure meds). Yet here I am.... I have to take the thyroid meds...