Libido loss and the Pill

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Registered: 05-17-2006
Libido loss and the Pill
Wed, 05-17-2006 - 8:59pm

I posted this on another message board, and someone replied suggesting that I post it here.

Hello everyone. I created this account here because my girlfriend and I recently stumbled upon something that has me a bit concerned about our sex life. Apparently, the oral contraceptive pill may cause a perminant dive in libido for some women. My girlfriend was on the pill for about two and a half months before she quit taking it several months ago. Since then, her libido certainly has not been what it used to.

After she told me this about the OC, I frantically got on the web and started researching it, and my findings have caused a mixture of releif and increased concern. Lately, a lot has been going on in our lives - we're both in college, family problems - a lot of things we weren't dealing with when our sex life was great, so I realize her declined libido could be due to other things. Still, considering how major the decline has been, the possibility of it being caused by the pill worries me that our sex life may never be what it was before. What's worse is we were not warned of this! "Change in sexual arrousal" does not adequately say "May perminately damage sexual interest!"

Does anyone here have any other information on this topic? Are there treatments available for her if she has suffered this side effect? I'd hate to think that our sex life will never improve because right now I'm far from satistfied. I want to fix it, though, for her and myself.

Thanks a ton!