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Hendrix
Hendrix Member Posts: 324 ✭
in Health and wellbeing
Good evening lovelies...sorry for late post or lack of everything of late...just finished work and struggling with working full time...anyway I have a question on sex drive.  Is it the letrazole...I do not have any interest in sex what so ever.  I’m single and met someone recently and when I say met...I mean came to my attention lol it just worries me that nothing registers down there.  Is this normal and will my sex drive return? ☹️ xx
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  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    Good question...
  • Hendrix
    Hendrix Member Posts: 324 ✭
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    @kmakm it’s terrible...I even try and think about it like a porn movie in my head last for about 10 seconds no interest, nothing zilch nada...and it’s starting to worry me
  • BarbieAnne
    BarbieAnne Member Posts: 174 ✭
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    @Hendrix I am on Letrozole and can say sex is the last thing on my mind. Yes, it is the Letrozole 
  • Hendrix
    Hendrix Member Posts: 324 ✭
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    @BarbieAnne oh great...I wonder if it changes...it surely can’t last for 5 years lol
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    I've got 10 years on it. I can't tell the wood for the trees at the moment. It's a watching brief.

     :/ 
  • Merv
    Merv Member Posts: 27 ✭
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    I'm on it until it stops working or I drop dead. My current strategy is to pour the old man another port and hope he falls asleep ..leaving me to the stimulation of sudoku! 
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    For me it started during peri-menopause (but then again I was really stressed all of the time and tired).  I don't think I can blame Letrozole at the moment as I've only been on it for a couple of weeks, but chemo finished off any libido I had remaining.  I'll get a fleeting moment of desire and if I can't act on it straight away, it's gone.  It's hard enough with a long-term partner.
  • Zoffiel
    Zoffiel Member Posts: 3,372 ✭
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    I laugh and say my partner would need a pair of leather gloves and an oyster shucker to have any chance with me at the moment. Then I cry.
  • Vangirl
    Vangirl Member Posts: 350 ✭
    edited August 2018
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    My libido left town during menopause. Given that Letrozole feels like menopause on steroids, I'd say it's not gonna help.

    My last relationship failed because of it (amongst other things). These days I get a flutter when I am in the company of a really good looking or otherwise attractive man, but otherwise nothing.

    I had decided before this that I was happier being single, so it doesn't bother me all that much.
  • Kiwi Angel
    Kiwi Angel Member Posts: 1,952 ✭
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    I’m probably about the same but movie things feel a little different for me internally during the act. 
  • Sister
    Sister Member Posts: 4,960 ✭
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    It's a shitty thing for all concerned.  
  • Afraser
    Afraser Member Posts: 4,371 ✭
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    It's the Letrozole. I am old enough to have it suggested that the atrophy and the loss of libido may be "natural ageing" but it happened in 6 months when I started Femara so it's not. I've had long enough to think about it and work around it. Ageing partner is another issue but possibly also an asset (both of us are in the not quite as we used to be state!). I'm staying with it but if my bone density gets worse, I will take a calculated risk that 6 or 7 years is better than 5 and stop.
  • kmakm
    kmakm Member Posts: 7,974 ✭
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    I think I'm going to have to approach it as an intellectual activity rather than a physical one. And an effort rather than an urge.
  • kezmusc
    kezmusc Member Posts: 1,544 ✭
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    Still probably one of the saddest parts about this shit.  Wasn't ready to lose this part of my life. Lot's of tears over this situation.  Just when the kids are all moving out and finally might have some us time.  I don't think there's going to be any swinging from the chandeliers now. How many things can change within a year huh????
    It's def the HT,  go off it, libido making an appearance within a week,. 2 or three weeks back on..........gone.  Zip, zilch, nothing, nada.   Guess one week every three months is better than nothing :neutral:
    So over this fucking "journey"  blah.

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