Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Sexual Desire After Endometrial Hysterectomy

As we mentioned in other articles, endometriosis growing somewhere else other than the endometrium also reacts to hormonal signals of the monthly menstrual cycle, building up tissue, breaking it, and eliminating it through the menstrual period. Hysterectomy is always the last resource in treating endometriosis for women who have exhausted all the treatments without success, or endometrial tissues have become cancerous, her doctor may suggest some kind of hysterectomy. After endometrial hysterectomy, the change of sex and fertility is directly influenced by estrogen levels in your body. In this article, we will discuss sex and fertility after endometrial hysterectomy.

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I. Physiological influences
Your sexual desire may be directly influence by reproductive testosterone hormones produced by ovaries and adrenal glands. 4 - 6 weeks after hysterectomy, you will be able to resume your sexual relationship again. Any sexual intercourse before that time will increase the risk of bleeding and infection. For whatever reasons, some women saw the improvement of sexual desire increase while others saw the opposite.

1. Ovaries are not removed

a) If the endometrial hysterectomy did not remove the ovaries, then the ovaries will continue to produce testosterone together with adrenal glands, you may feel no change in your sexual libido.

b)Some people suggest that even though the ovaries are not removed, the removal of other reductive organs more or less will cause the change of sex drive, because most women will be aging a few years earlier than women who have not had reproductive organs hysterectomy.

c) Even if the ovaries are not removed, the removal of other reproductive organs may reduce blood flow to the ovaries causing libido as resulting of low levels of testosterone.

2. Removal of ovaries
Removal of ovaries certainly will alter the sexual libido of women because of low levels of testosterone.

For whatever reason, some women after endometrial hysterectomy who has experience of low sexual desire found to have low level of sexual enhancing vitamins and minerals such as vitamin E, B3, zinc, etc. in theirbody as resulting of poor digestive system.

II. Psychological influences

a) After abdominal hysterectomy, some women may have the false feeling that intercourse may cause pain or injury to the pelvic. In fact, after 4-6 weeks sexual intercourse will not pose any risk of injury or pain.

b) Your partner may feel that sexual intercourse may cause injury to your internal body because of vagina penetration.

In fact the sexual desire is not only caused by physiological feelings as a result of levels of testosterone in the woman body, but also by the psychological effects of not feeling like a women again leading to anxiety, depression and other mental diseases.

It is for your benefit to join your local hysterectomy group. It not only helps you to get real life experience from women who have already faced all kinds of problems before you and also make you feel better about yourself mentally.

Since endometriosis is treatable and manageable by natural remedies and self help course, if you have endometroisis, please look at the bright side.


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