is there a medical reason for a very high sex drive? (in a woman!)

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I realise that this sounds like a ridiculous problem but it really is! It's making me miserable.

I have a very high sex drive, I think about sex all the time, I masturbate twice a day everyday, I think about sex when I'm walking down the street, in the gym, with my kids at play areas.

The matter is not helped at all by the fact that my husband has a very low sex drive, couldn't care less about sex, is not very enthusiastic when we do do it and I never have an orgasm with him. We are quite open about it and have had numerous discussions, rows, tears, serious talks about but nothing every changes. I guess I just have to accept that we are mismatched.

I'm on anti depressants and the pill, both of which lower your libido so I can't imagine what it would be like if I was to come off my tablets.

I've pretty much always felt like this, since I was 18 or so. I had a bad time a few years ago where I was very depressed and put on a lot of weight and that seemed to decrease my sex drive a bit but now I'm feeling good and lost some weight and feeling a lot better about myself and I'm back to my usual sex obsessed self.

It makes me feel frustrated and ratty and then I feel guilty cos I've got a job I like, 2 beautiful (if stressful) little kids, a fantastic husband (apart from the sex) who I love and adore and is very affectionate holding hands, cuddling, tells me he loves me etc..

I'm half thinking I should go to the doctors and ask if I've got some kind of hormone problem?

Any ideas?

Go to the Doctor it can't hurt, it could make things better. Although, it could just be that as your dh has a lower libido what you are obsessing about is lack of good sex, not lack of a lot of sex. IFSWIM

You sound sexually frustrated, that is why its on your mind so much. I don't think there is a medical problem, there is nothing WRONG with having a high sex drive.
I think the problem is the inbalance in your relationship. Very hard to deal with, especially as it sounds like you love him so much

All month, or just around ovulation?

My poor husband around ovulation! !
I'm not on the Pill, though, but on ADs. Have been for ages.

Not done anything to my libido.

The only thing that lowered it was the Cerazette, progesten-based contraception.

Needless to say, NO WAY I'm going on that again!

anti depressants can make you very horny

also it depends why you might be on them

yes there are medical reasons why you can have a high sex drive

as an eg being bipolar can be a reason

It's probably becoming a bit of an obsession because your partner is so much less interested in it than you are. Have you and your DH discussed the possibility of you getting sex elsewhere, given that he is so uninterested in it?

testosterone. Women make it aswell but in lower doses.

Hi Zippi, I was going to say during a manic episode it's quite typical.