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Sex Drive

Mon, 09/13/2004 - 19:47
Does anyone else have limited sexual interest due to their seizure disorder? I have just read that temporal lobe epilepsy can cause affect the sex drive. I personally have no interest in intercourse. I now wonder if this could be why. I'd love feedback.

Comments

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.

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: RE: RE: Sex Drive

Submitted by alexie on Mon, 2005-04-11 - 23:47
I'm glad Bob posted above. I have TLE, but also an injury to my frontal lobe(always wear your seatbelt!!!) and I have a very active sex drive I was doing some research into Bipolar the other day and thought Uh Oh when I read that they also have a very high sex drive... after an appointment with the doctor came to the conclusion that I didn't have BP. My sex drive causes me huge issues. Just because it's a common fact amongst friends that my boyfriend(ok we split up yesterday) and I had sex a lot and it was usually initiated by myself, they seem to think that that makes me a slut, whoare, hooker, you name it.Alexie xx

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