Dannielle
Brilliant_Rock
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I posted a thread last week in Diamond Hangout last week about ''Keeping the Passion Alive'' in your relationship. Reading that thread made me realise that FI and I do not have a normal sex life and it was time to start dealing with it.
We started having problems about 3 years ago, FI was never interested and after a year of constant fighting I just gave up.. I can count the number of times we made love last year on one hand. Earlier this year FI was diagnosed with Reactive Hypoglycemia which is a low blood sugar condition. It is controlled through exercise and diet. After his diagnosis things improved greatly, and I had gone off BC and my drive increased considerably.
Then about two months ago we started having problems again. So, after my post last week FI and I had a lot of discussions. many ending up in tears about what was going on. We both decided that it was time to seek medical assistance, so we went to a GP. FI had a blood test and it showed that his testosterone levels were very low, and that he had very high levels of prolactin. From the doctors explanation, Prolcatin is generally released after sex making you feel satisfied.
FI has been referred to an endocrinologist and hopefully will be starting medication which will correct the hormonal imbalance. He has also been advised to have his fertility tested and freeze some sperm ''just in case''. Although this isn''t a good diagnosis we are so relieved.. there is a reason and it isn''t "all in his head" as some people have told him
So, I just wanted to post this to just share our story and also to let people know that if they are having problems in this department to go seek medical advice- I know it can be an embaressing subject but it really is worth it
We started having problems about 3 years ago, FI was never interested and after a year of constant fighting I just gave up.. I can count the number of times we made love last year on one hand. Earlier this year FI was diagnosed with Reactive Hypoglycemia which is a low blood sugar condition. It is controlled through exercise and diet. After his diagnosis things improved greatly, and I had gone off BC and my drive increased considerably.
Then about two months ago we started having problems again. So, after my post last week FI and I had a lot of discussions. many ending up in tears about what was going on. We both decided that it was time to seek medical assistance, so we went to a GP. FI had a blood test and it showed that his testosterone levels were very low, and that he had very high levels of prolactin. From the doctors explanation, Prolcatin is generally released after sex making you feel satisfied.
FI has been referred to an endocrinologist and hopefully will be starting medication which will correct the hormonal imbalance. He has also been advised to have his fertility tested and freeze some sperm ''just in case''. Although this isn''t a good diagnosis we are so relieved.. there is a reason and it isn''t "all in his head" as some people have told him
So, I just wanted to post this to just share our story and also to let people know that if they are having problems in this department to go seek medical advice- I know it can be an embaressing subject but it really is worth it
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