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UPDATED: Tue, 04/29/2008 - 11:25am
nire5
Husband's Libido
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Hi to you all-
I'll try to make this brief and see if you all have any ideas. My husband and I have been together for 7 years. We're looking to have a child now. My husband in the last 4 years has been dianosised with epilesy and now is on anti-seizure meds- trilepthal and lyrica. It wasn't until we were looking to have a child that we noticed that basically to put it bluntly- he really has no sex drive and no desire to have sex. We use to have no problem having sex and the frequency was fine. We have an excellent relationship and he is very loving. His primary doctor didn't really have any solutions- it's not a viagra issue. We haven't talked to his neurologist yet. We really want to concieve a child in the next year. This is making both of us very sad. Any solutions of what we can do? What we should try? Please help- we'd really like to have a child.
By nire5 at Tue, 04/29/2008 - 11:25am | 26 views | 2 comments
Topic: Medication Issues
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I'm no sexual therapist but i've been taught that a good sexual partnership is a relaxed partnership that both partners can enjoy. Try talking to your partner in bed be reassuring, carressing and try to find out what there inhabitions are you may be supprised. A bit of role playing might go down well (if your both up to it!). What ever it is it will probably take a bit of time but love will conquer all in the end. AED's can effect a mans labido some what and the thought of having an infant near him may actually frighten him.
I think you can figure out the rest for your self. Don't let time defeat you both. Good luck
http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/men_sexual.html
Another view of sexual function was presented by Rattya et al13
studying men with epilepsy (ages 18-50 years).The valproate group had
enhanced sexual function and increased androstenedione levels, whereas
patients taking carbamazepine or oxcarbazepine had the opposite.
However, the valproate group had a higher proportion of patients with
primary generalized epilepsy than the other groups. This may be an
important, unexplored issue. Mattson et al6 noted different responses to progesterone in women with primary or localization-related epilepsy.
http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/men/sexuality.html
Sex drive
Many
men with epilepsy enjoy a healthy sex life and their epilepsy does not
affect this in any way. However, lack of interest in sex is more common
in men with epilepsy than in men in the general population. There are a
few possible reasons for this.