4. Reduced Bladder Control
For many people loss, or even reduction of control over bladder functioning can have a huge impact on feelings of sexiness, and can create anxiety about loss of bladder control during sex. Making sure you empty your bladder before sex, and avoid drinking a lot prior to sex is one way to deal with these concerns.5. General Decrease in Sexual Desire
This can be caused by any number of things, including:- Medications to reduce blood pressure, for depression, and for pain reduced testosterone levels
- Fatigue as a result of persistently high blood glucose
- Pain experienced during sex, making sex less appealing
- Changes in your body including weight gain.
How you deal with this change will depend so much on the causes and you. If medication is a cause you may want to speak to your physician about changing the type of medication you are on. Fatigue may be making it simply more difficult to schedule sex, so planning a day around your energy level so you have time for sex when you’re energy is up can work well.
Here are three great places to go for more information:
Diabetes on About.com Your first stop for information on all aspects of living with Diabetes, including great information on sexual functioning and Diabetes.
Diabetes and Sexuality on SexualHealth.com A general introduction to the topic, along with questions and answers from the experts.
Queering Diabetes This site is geared towards gay, lesbian, trans, and otherwise queer people who live with Diabetes or who have a friend, family member, partner who does. I think that even if you don’t identify with any of these groups it’s a great site to check out for honest talk about living and loving with Diabetes.
