The pill may kill your libido!

[Celebration]

http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IE320060104064228&Title=Features+-+Health+%26+Science&Topic=-162

The pill, which has proved to be an effective birth control method could cause long-term problems, including sexual dysfunction.

In the January issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers have published a new investigation measuring Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) before and after discontinuation of the oral contraceptive pill.

The research concluded that women who used the oral contraceptive pill may be exposed to long-term problems from low values of “unbound” testosterone potentially leading to continuing sexual, metabolic, and mental health consequences.

Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) is the protein that binds testosterone, rendering it unavailable for a woman’s physiologic needs. The study showed that in women with sexual dysfunction, elevated SHBG in “Oral Contraceptive Discontinued-Users” did not decrease to values consistent with those of “Never-Users of Oral Contraceptive”.

[soothsayer]

1. When I took it, I used to joke that that's how it worked. I had zero

interest in sex for the thankfully really brief time I was on it.

[Warpy]

3. Same here

but the constant migraine headache might have had something to do with it.

There was no way for me to stay on the pill. I was completely incapacitated by it.

[sybylla]

2. Does the opposite for me

I took the pill for about a year just after I got married 23 years ago and never again until about three years ago. My hormones were so out of whack that I had terrible lifestyle problems and zero sex drive. Got on the pill to regulate the hormones and finally have returned to a normal sex drive.

There are different types of oral contraceptive. Perhaps the study didn't differentiate between them.

And if contraceptives fake a pregnancy, could the same happen to women who have had one or more pregnancies or pregnancies close together? I pose this because my hormonal irregularities began a year or two after my second pregnancy.

Definitely an interesting study.

[philb]

4. the pill and many meds and toxics have estrogenic effects that

are well known and documented these days. But we also have information on how to deal with estrogenic effects
and counteract such effects. There is a lot of info on this in medical newsletters, research studies, journals, etc.

an example of something that counteracts some of the effects is glyconutrients(www.glycoscience.com)
but there are other such as well.


Obviously, having no convenient contraceptive method available would exert a strong negative incentive on many who
aren't anxious to have another kid with regards to interest in sex.

[Gilmore]

5. I some what agree with that..

I am on the pill and I have noticed that I don't want to have sex as much as I did before the pill. I don't think that I will be giving it up just for that reason. There are so many health benefits and it actually makes periods bearable for me now.