I was on the Depo for 5 years, than my husband and I decided to try for a baby. It took a full year to get pregnant. I loved the shot because I didn't have to worry about forgetting the pill or even having a cycle. I lost my cycle completely, which was heaven.
After I had my son, I went back on the shot and he will soon be 3 yrs old. I am nearing 30 yrs and I haven't had a sex drive. I could care less if I ever got it.
So my question is because I don't have a cycle, did I lose my libido? So if I go on a pill that makes me maintain a cycle, I will have my drive back, right?
Please help.
After I had my son, I went back on the shot and he will soon be 3 yrs old. I am nearing 30 yrs and I haven't had a sex drive. I could care less if I ever got it.
So my question is because I don't have a cycle, did I lose my libido? So if I go on a pill that makes me maintain a cycle, I will have my drive back, right?
Please help.
I'm in a similar situation. Being on synthetic birth control pills for a few years completely ruined my libido. I've been off of them for more than 10 years now, I still have a cycle, but no libido. Studies are now proving that birth control can permanently damage the hormonal functions that create the libido. It seems we have been screwed yet again by the medical world.
I'd love to hear if anyone has had any success with restoring libido!
I'd love to hear if anyone has had any success with restoring libido!
Yes we have, yet again, been screwed by the medical world. We thought we were gaining our sexual freedom with birth control. But as it turns out, the joke is on us. The boys are in control. You can not tell me that they didn't know about it before they put in on the market. Must have been one of those "things they must have forgotten to mention" to the FDA.
Don't blame this on "the boys". Do you really think heterosexual men would want women to lose libido and suffer permanent health effects from various types of BC? Last I checked we liked women with healthy bodies and strong sex drives.
This isn't about men, this is about greed. This is the intersection of Age of Reagan "government isn't the solution, government is the problem" and the Baby Boomer's "better living thru chemistry" ideology. "One word - plastics." Long after incidents like the Cuyahoga River led to crackdowns on industrial sludge, we are still polluting our environment with invisible hormonal disruptors, mostly due to the vast overuse of pharmaceuticals in the USA (and to a lesser extent in other Anglophone countries). The real tragedy is in the youngest generation, which will have its fertility and physical development undermined by the ubiquity of these disruptors (although the luckiest will likely suffer only vanishingly small effects). The younger one is, the more irreperable the harm from these chemicals.
This nation has been in, since 1980, the age of "Caveat Emptor". I feel a great deal of sympathy towards women who have been adversely affected by BC -- I had a female roommate who informed me on the evils of Depo. It's all part of the larger problem though; basically a lot of people believed that businesses deserved more trust than government, and so they let federal agencies stop protecting consumers and start (discreetly) promoting the financial interests of corporations.
So for those now realizing that the USA is an over-medicated, insidiously polluted environment, it will take engagement with politics to make this nation back into what it was just 60 years ago or so.
This isn't about men, this is about greed. This is the intersection of Age of Reagan "government isn't the solution, government is the problem" and the Baby Boomer's "better living thru chemistry" ideology. "One word - plastics." Long after incidents like the Cuyahoga River led to crackdowns on industrial sludge, we are still polluting our environment with invisible hormonal disruptors, mostly due to the vast overuse of pharmaceuticals in the USA (and to a lesser extent in other Anglophone countries). The real tragedy is in the youngest generation, which will have its fertility and physical development undermined by the ubiquity of these disruptors (although the luckiest will likely suffer only vanishingly small effects). The younger one is, the more irreperable the harm from these chemicals.
This nation has been in, since 1980, the age of "Caveat Emptor". I feel a great deal of sympathy towards women who have been adversely affected by BC -- I had a female roommate who informed me on the evils of Depo. It's all part of the larger problem though; basically a lot of people believed that businesses deserved more trust than government, and so they let federal agencies stop protecting consumers and start (discreetly) promoting the financial interests of corporations.
So for those now realizing that the USA is an over-medicated, insidiously polluted environment, it will take engagement with politics to make this nation back into what it was just 60 years ago or so.