ILLNESSES THAT MAY DECREASE SEXUAL DESIRE: PAIN

Pain is perhaps the most potent of all sex drive inhibitors, soon as your brain recognizes that you are in pain, it goes o red alert status, switching off all circuits to nonessential functions, including sexual desire. Postoperative pain, pain cause by injuries, and pain that accompanies treatments like radiation therapy literally shut down sexual desire until sex is once again perceived as safe and acceptable. Unfortunately, your brag cannot give the "all clear" signal until your pain goes away, an sometimes it doesn't.

Ellen is a thirty-two-year-old special-education teacher who has been married for six years to David, a thirty-four-year-old architect. Two years into their marriage, after David was offered a job with a company in his native Chicago, the couple moved there from southern California. Several months later Ellen, who was unaccustomed to driving in winter weather, go' into an automobile accident. At first she appeared to have escaped injury, but by the morning after the accident her lower back was in extreme pain, a pain that has plagued her almost continuously ever since.

There are few things more stressful and draining that being in physical pain over prolonged periods of time. You pain demands your full attention. You may even spend you pain-free moments anticipating the next onslaught. In fact, i frequently becomes the sole focus in the lives of people with back problems, severe arthritis, cancer, or other debilitating conditions, causing numerous life-adjustment and relationship problems that provide a natural breeding ground for sexual desire discrepancies and ISD.

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Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction