Sometimes Even My Sex Drive Wanes

For seven days now I've been laid up dealing with recovering from having my lower wisdom teeth taken out. In the grand scheme of things, the surgery wasn't that major, but in the world of oral surgery it was pretty intense. I'm just starting to feel human again and not have to deal with pain from open wounds and all that was involved in my surgery.

I answered a Formspring question this morning already that got me thinking. It asked about rating my last orgasm. And quite frankly, I couldn't remember my last orgasm. I think it was sometime early last week.

For someone who has such a normally high sex drive as myself, even mine wobbles from time to time. Dealing with the pain from recovery has put a huge damper on my sex drive this last week. Before that dealing with the pain of those wisdom teeth being horribly impacted (for the last five years!) put a damper on it. I don't feel entirely sexy when I'm suffering from a debilitating migraine after all.

My anti-anxiety medication I take also impacts my sex drive. While it doesn't quash it entirely like I've heard horror stories of, it does put a damper on it and I'd say probably three out of every seven days of the week I'm just not interested in sex. I'm hoping the latest medication I started doesn't impact it as much as some of the previous medications I've taken in the past. Having just taken it for little over a week now, I still can't be sure of the long term repercussions considering I've mainly been consumed with recovering from my oral surgery.

I think a lot of women suffer from lowered sex drive and so do a lot of men. The more people I talk to and the more information I read, the more common it seems to me. We are all bound by a common thread and sometimes that thread doesn't seem super interesting to us. It happens. We deal with it. Some of us better than others.

Don't feel alone if suddenly you find yourself almost entirely disinterested in sex. Because even me, who could have sex several times a day when I'm at the height of my sex drive, sometimes find myself disinterested in the act. When it happens, hold hands, cuddle, and be intimate in other ways. Hopefully it will pass and things will resolve themselves naturally. Longer and deeper periods of low sex drive may be a medical problem from hormone or chemical imbalance. Consider getting yourself to a doctor.

But most of all, work through it the best way you know how. I know I am.