Is there anything I can do to improve my sex drive?

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I have severe endometriosis. 3 years ago I finally found a treatment that allowed me to get my life back and be almost completely pain free. The nexplanon implant. It has been truly liberating in so many ways. It has allowed me to pursue a career I would never have been able to before. However it has also completely killed my sex drive. I have tried and tried to overcome this and my husband has been so patient but to no avail. I am petrified at the thought of not having the implant and the pain returning but I'm really not sure how much more of this my marriage can take. It's not just sex it's affection generally I struggle with which from what I have read seems to be a fairly common side effect. I just wondered whether anyone had managed to find alternative ways of overcoming thinks, something I could take perhaps? It's due to be replaced next month and I can't help feeling between a rock and a hard place with it, I either don't replace it and I risk debilitating pain returning or I do replace it and condemn our marriage to another 3 practically sex free years

I have severe endo and have had a mirena coil for 2 years with no loss of libido

Worth considering?

Talk to your doc before replacement, Diagonally could have a point.

Also what about ginesing?

Nb don't make any changes via your GP, see your gynae.

That's just my voice of bitter experience. The last locum I saw at GP surgery had to look endometriosis up on Google.

Thanks for the replies. I'm no longer under a gynea. I was discharged after completing my last lot of treatment and saying I wanted to try to get pregnant. My last wonderful gp sought advice on what contraception to use from the gynea consultant a specially as I need a very reliable form to avoid what would be a very high risk for me pregnancy should it fail. I. Have since changed gps due to a house move and haven't had to seek and help with endo stuff so far because I've had the implant working. Spoke to husband about this more last night. He's very supportive but did say that with the implant I am a "dialled down" version of me, which he's never told me before. I thought it was just the sex side of things being affected. I'll try a chat with a gp at the new surgery. Everything I've read about mirena suggests it probably won't be for me. My body tends to react strongly to anything inserted into me! I could never use tampons before and i sometimes have pain after sex because of this too.

Do you have children?

Yes I have one child and the birth complications linked to endo mean that any further pregnancies and births, while not impossible, would be risky. How risky no one can tell me but I have a huge scar on my uterus incorporating the uterine artery so if it did rupture I and the baby would probably die before anyone could do anything. No one can tell me how likely this is just the stats for normal scar rupture. So as much as we'd love more children we don't feel it's an option. It does also mean that any further pelvic surgery would be high risk too. The consultant who did my debrief said that if I ever had to have surgery I had to request someone very senior. What a mess it must be in there!