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Sex Drive
Mon, 09/13/2004 - 19:47Comments
RE: RE: Sex Drive
Submitted by rfskye on Mon, 2005-04-11 - 23:24
In the book "Seized," by Eve LaPlante--for my money the best book ever written about TLE--the author quotes Norman Geschwind, who states that one of the five characteristics of temporal lobe epilepsy is a diminished OR increased sex drive. Don't know anyone that suffers the latter. Me, I agree with the majority. I had TLE when I met my wife 9 years ago, and we've never had intercourse. Fooled around a few times. I'm 54 now and she's in her early forties. We joke about it sometimes. It's not a big deal.
Anyway, sex is hard work, and messy. Who needs all that for the same few seconds I can achieve downloading from the...
Nevermind.
Bob
PS: Four Bronx cheers for who can name all five common characteristics of TLEs.
In the book "Seized," by Eve LaPlante--for my money the best book ever written about TLE--the author quotes Norman Geschwind, who states that one of the five characteristics of temporal lobe epilepsy is a diminished OR increased sex drive. Don't know anyone that suffers the latter. Me, I agree with the majority. I had TLE when I met my wife 9 years ago, and we've never had intercourse. Fooled around a few times. I'm 54 now and she's in her early forties. We joke about it sometimes. It's not a big deal.
Anyway, sex is hard work, and messy. Who needs all that for the same few seconds I can achieve downloading from the...
Nevermind.
Bob
PS: Four Bronx cheers for who can name all five common characteristics of TLEs.
RE: Sex Drive
Submitted by kwgreulich on Mon, 2005-04-11 - 16:28
I was told by a doctor when i started on the Depakote that it could halter sex drives. I am sure from what i have read that some of the others do too. Between the meds and seizures i just don't have the energy very often.