Diabetes and Sex Drive

[MATT5]

Ok, here's the question,

Does having high blood sugars kill your sex drive? I didn't really notice at first, but my gf pointed it out to me and now that I think about it she's right. I seem to have ZERO sex drive!

I'm 25 yrs old, and I'm more like a type 1.5 since i just started Lantus along with the Actos I was on.

I'm hoping that once the Lantus starts working and gets my sugars to a normal range that it will return??? :ridinghor

[JediSkipdogg]

When you have consistent high blood sugars, you lose all drives. I find that when I'm running high I don't want to do anything, no sex, no computer games, sometimes even no tv. It's basically the high bg turning your mind off.

[Simon]

I didn't have a problem before I was put on insulin. I think the body needs to adjust to normal bs ranges. Until it does there's not enough energy for all that exertion. It hard work when your the man you know! Anyway I need to up the bs a bit if I think I might be getting lucky. Sadly my gf has no sex drive either and she's not even diabetic!:hmpf:

[Cinnabon]

Matt..
Yes High blood sugar can kill just about anything. Nerve and blood vessel damage. Causing nerve damage, or neuropathy, comes with ongoing high blood sugar levels. It damages the blood vessels that bring oxygen and nutrients to the nerves. When the nerves are damaged they are not able to transmit signals properly.

If the nerves that supply the penis are damaged, even though you might have the mental stimulation to have sex, the message from the brain doesn’t reach the penis and it doesn’t respond. You may also suffer from ejaculation problems related to the nerve damage.

As well as blood vessels damaging nerves, nerve damage can damage blood vessels and narrow them. If the blood vessels supplying the penis become narrowed, blood can’t flow in fast enough to make an erection and keep it.

Hopefully yuour blood sugars become better with the Lantus.

[rzrbks]

As well as blood vessels damaging nerves, nerve damage can damage blood vessels and narrow them. If the blood vessels supplying the penis become narrowed, blood can’t flow in fast enough to make an erection and keep it.

Geez, and here, all along, I thought it was simply that I spent so much time and energy (which requires blood) thinking about my Diabetes that there wasn't any blood left for "Other Pursuits."

[seacomp]

It's my understanding that Viagra, etc. do NOT help diabetics with erectile disfunction because it is a problem of nerve damage, not blood flow. I do not know that this is correct. I do know that diabetes is not mentioned in the page of disclaimers that follows their pretty ads. So, what's up, or not?

[rzrbks]

seacomp

It's my understanding that Viagra, etc. do NOT help diabetics with erectile disfunction because it is a problem of nerve damage, not blood flow. I do not know that this is correct. I do know that diabetes is not mentioned in the page of disclaimers that follows their pretty ads. So, what's up, or not?

I wouldn't be willing to bet ANY money on that rumor, in fact, I'd be willing to bet Any amount of money Against that.........if you get my drift.;)

[MATT5]

Matt..
Yes High blood sugar can kill just about anything. Nerve and blood vessel damage. Causing nerve damage, or neuropathy, comes with ongoing high blood sugar levels. It damages the blood vessels that bring oxygen and nutrients to the nerves. When the nerves are damaged they are not able to transmit signals properly.

If the nerves that supply the penis are damaged, even though you might have the mental stimulation to have sex, the message from the brain doesn’t reach the penis and it doesn’t respond. You may also suffer from ejaculation problems related to the nerve damage.

As well as blood vessels damaging nerves, nerve damage can damage blood vessels and narrow them. If the blood vessels supplying the penis become narrowed, blood can’t flow in fast enough to make an erection and keep it.

Hopefully yuour blood sugars become better with the Lantus.

I dont really have any problem "performing". I just dont have any desire to. Oh well, here's hoping the Lantus helps things out before my gf kills me!

[rzrbks]

I dont really have any problem "performing". I just dont have any desire to. Oh well, here's hoping the Lantus helps things out before my gf kills me!

High B/Gs warp your mind and do strange things to it............take a look at me, for example.

Truely, Hypers do strange things to the chemical reactions in neural synaptic transmitters----I believe that it's much harder to focus on more thanone thing at a time when you're in Hyper Space.

I know this talks about Hypos, but I believe the converse is also true.

http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/51/2/430


Synaptic Adaptation to Repeated Hypoglycemia Depends on the Utilization of Monocarboxylates in Guinea Pig Hippocampal Slices

[travis]

Hey Matt,

I went through this before and for a while after diagnosis. No interest at all. But as my diabetic control got better, so did the drive issue, now I'd say it's pretty normal.

Best luck to you,

[duck]

Ok, here's the question,

Does having high blood sugars kill your sex drive? I didn't really notice at first, but my gf pointed it out to me and now that I think about it she's right. I seem to have ZERO sex drive!

I'm 25 yrs old, and I'm more like a type 1.5 since i just started Lantus along with the Actos I was on.

I'm hoping that once the Lantus starts working and gets my sugars to a normal range that it will return??? :ridinghor

I've not mentioned this ever here, but haven't really thought to...After I got married, my drive just kinda died. The wife and I were *maybe* having sex twice a month, sometimes three. There were a couple external factors that made me less willing (I got laid off from a job, new job work stress, etc.) but honestly I just didn't feel like it.

Not thinking about this, I decided about November 2004 to start taking better care of my diabetes. I can't remember what my A1c was, but it was something like 7.7 or 7.9, and that was the last straw, I wasn't going to let this thing beat me. Since then I have consistently been in the low 6's, rarely going higher than mid-6's monthly (I test monthly).

Strangely enough, my wife now complains that all I want is sex. We actually had to have a sit-down talk about it, because she had come to expect a life of kiss-kiss "good-night baby" with the occasional passionate ten minutes here and there, and suddenly it was "Honey I'm home get in bed!" I told her all I can figure is that "diabetically", I have been more consistently healthy than I have ever been, and "things" just tend to work better when your body's systems are not constantly being bombarded with high sugars (or badly fluctuating sugars).

So I think you owe it to yourself and your hunny to work on consistently "good" sugars. It took me (from what I can tell) about five months to "get going".