Birth Control Lowers Sex Drive??

[Anonymous]

DW said lack of sex is due to Birth Control lowering sex drive. She is now off Birth Control because she wants to have another DC. Sex has been far and in between. She wants to have sex to have another DC and that's where it stops. Anyone else experience this? Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Birth control has not changed my sex drive at all, and I've been on 4 different kinds between being on stuff before DS and being on stuff after DS.

[Anonymous]

Birth control has hormones-- which can basically impact every woman a different way. All of them it have tried so far have made me scary depressed in about a week or two. So, yeah, they lowered my sex drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Birth control has hormones-- which can basically impact every woman a different way. All of them it have tried so far have made me scary depressed in about a week or two. So, yeah, they lowered my sex drive.

*I* have tried.

[Anonymous]

The pill or any hormonal b.c. can definitely have a negative effect on sex drive.

[Anonymous]

BC nuetered me. Seriously. For some women bc causes all kindd of issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC nuetered me. Seriously. For some women bc causes all kindd of issues.

#1 -- I haven't been on it in many years, and never will again due to the drop in sex drive and onset of depressive symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC neutered me. Seriously. For some women bc causes all kinds of issues.

Agreed. Plus, I had severe pain in my liver from the lowest dose of BC pills and had to stop. Hate them.

Once you are done with having kids, husbands should have vasectomies.

[Anonymous]

Get it while you can

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC nuetered me. Seriously. For some women bc causes all kindd of issues.

Yep, me too.

[Anonymous]

It killed my drive. Killed it. Not only the desire to have sex, but the ability to orgasm.

[Anonymous]

Yep, BC pills killed my libido and I had/have a healthy one. When I first tried the pill when I was 18 I didn't notice any libido change but once I was on BC in my late 20's-early 30's it seriously sucked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, BC pills killed my libido and I had/have a healthy one. When I first tried the pill when I was 18 I didn't notice any libido change but once I was on BC in my late 20's-early 30's it seriously sucked.

This is me, too. I didn't notice it as much when I was younger, but definitely once I hit my 20's and especially 30's. It was a slow realization, but confirmed after being off for only a couple months. Being pregnant made me want sex all the time, breastfeeding killed it again, and now am finally getting it back over a year post-partum (still bf-ing but not as frequently). Exhaustion and room sharing and not yet STTN make it harder, but I do want the intimacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yep, BC pills killed my libido and I had/have a healthy one. When I first tried the pill when I was 18 I didn't notice any libido change but once I was on BC in my late 20's-early 30's it seriously sucked.

This is me, too. I didn't notice it as much when I was younger, but definitely once I hit my 20's and especially 30's. It was a slow realization, but confirmed after being off for only a couple months. Being pregnant made me want sex all the time, breastfeeding killed it again, and now am finally getting it back over a year post-partum (still bf-ing but not as frequently). Exhaustion and room sharing and not yet STTN make it harder, but I do want the intimacy.

I am glad you are not my wife, I could not take that roller coaster ride. Get an IUD for god's sake and even out.

[Anonymous]

Hormonal IUD killed my wife's drive. It was subtle too -- she had a decent drive in her 20s on the pill. Then we had kids close together. Lots of sex between 1 & 2 -- hard telling if that was high drive, or just very motivated to conceive #2. After #2, she got the IUD put in. Next couple of years was low sex drive -- we chalked it up to having infants, then toddlers. Eventually we realized Mirena was potentially a problem. I got a vasectomy and she got the IUD pulled. Her drive is mostly better now.