Diabetes And Sex

Sex and Diabetes, What is the relationship?

Problems sexual life is generally influenced by several factors such as psychological and physical. Those who suffer from certain diseases such as diabetes have a risk of major disruption to face sexual life.

So, how diabetes can affect your sexual life or vice versa? Research shows, twenty-five percent of all women with diabetes and about 50 percent of men will experience some type of sexual problem or loss of sexual desire as a result of their condition.



In men
Long-term diabetes in men can cause damage to the nervous system, which is involved in the complex process of erection. This means that men with diabetes may suffer from erectile dysfunction (ED) and not being able to get or maintain an erection. As many as one-third of men with diabetes will eventually experience impotence.

In fact, some men are finding out that they have diabetes when they seek treatment of their erectile dysfunction-related issues. But you need not worry, this can be overcome by arranging proper diet and supported by the consumption of drugs or insulin.

In women
Some women with diabetes may suffer from recurrent vaginitis (inflammation of the vagina), which is usually caused by fungal infection. These conditions will make sex uncomfortable and painful. Even in some women may experience itching or burning sensation, and white discharge.

Women with diabetes can also get recurrent cystitis - one of the diseases Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). In addition, some evidence suggests that women with diabetes tend to have problems with arousal, and the clitoris (the nerve center of sex in women) may not respond to stimuli in the usual way.

Could have sex after suffering from diabetes?
If you feel that diabetes causes problems with your sex life, immediately consult your doctor. Typically, doctors will try to find out whether these sexual problems are caused by defects in the nervous or circulatory system as a result of diabetes, or whether it is more due to psychological factors. Often these differences are difficult to be classified.

In any case, when the problem of sexual dysfunction began to occur regularly and tends to worsen, then the psychological factors will be involved in it.

Men who have diabetes and impotence can be helped with medication prescribed by a doctor such as sildenafil (Viagra), tadalafil (Cialis) and vardenafil (Levitra). However, if the test shows that your nervous system has not been damaged by diabetes, and there are no associated circulatory problems, then you really do not experience problems with sexual life. It takes the support of the couple and the doctor to address these conditions. Source: netdoctor

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