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Originally Posted by Koala77
Another factor is stress.
The body naturally puts survival ahead of pleasure. Your over-burdened adrenal glands can rob your body of the building blocks it uses to make estrogen and testosterone, which are vital to desire and sexual response.
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Aside from pain itself, many of the medications used to treat pain, including but not limited to
ALL opioids, supress adrenal hormones, which negatively impact libido (desire).
Testosterone is just as important to women's libido as it is to men's - just in much lower levels.
Google:
testosterone libido
Google: chronic pain hormone therapy
Properly balanced hormones can also have an effect on controlling/reducing pain itself, and a long list of other symptoms. It's a simple matter (blood test with fasting) to get levels on all the adrenal hormones, from pregnenolone (the "mother/master" hormone which is a precursor to all the adrenal hormones) on down to estrogen/testosterone, and then supplement the ones that are too low.
Doc
PS: Catma, don't forget to change your drawers!
