How does diabets affect someones sex drive?

My girlfriend has type 1 diabetes, i am wondering how diabetes affects someones sex drive? How is her sex drive affected, and how bad is the effect?



We are both 18 and she weighs great for her height.How does diabets affect someones sex drive?Diabetes affects the nerves, which can make it difficult or impossible to achieve an orgasm. Men or women.



Diabetes caused high cholesterol, which "clogs" the arteries, veins, and capillaries, reducing the blood flow in the pelvic area. This "vascular congestion" is vital to men, but also important to women. Part of the "good feeling" of a female orgasm is due to the release of this "full feeling"



Diabetes can also affect the mind, making the victim "moody", insolent, argumentative, and/or unhappy. Of course, the greatest sex organ of all IS the mind. . . .



The general feeling of "being sick" that often occurs with diabetes has a great effect on sex drive.



Diabetes can cause miscarriages and birth defects in pregnant women



The fear of having a "defective" or still-born child can have a great effect on the sex drive (or lack thereof) of women.



How bad the effect is depends on how well the diabetes is controlled, or not. It can range from no effect at all, to slight discomfort, to a general feeling of dissatisfaction with the sex act, to the complete inability to perform, including enjoyment and pregnancy.



How does diabets affect someones sex drive?Sexual problems in women with diabetes

The sex problems experienced by some women with diabetes are the same problems that may be experienced by women without diabetes, namely:



* lack of vaginal lubrication;

* painful intercourse; and

* loss of desire 鈥?reduced libido.



Just like other women, some women with diabetes may suffer problems with orgasm, but some research shows that if you have diabetes you are no more likely to have these problems than women who don鈥檛 have diabetes. If you are having sexual problems that may or may not be related to your diabetes, see your doctor 鈥?there may be some simple things you can do to improve the situation.How does diabets affect someones sex drive?Lack of vaginal lubrication is a problem I've never had.