When I just started my birth control pills 2 years ago, I was always ready to go. I had a great sex life. But my boyfriend and I have noticed that I'm just not interested in sex as much, and it is harder and harder to turn me on. despite copious amounts of foreplay. Obviously this is not good because our sex life is important. Has this happened to anyone else? What did you do? If you have some advice for me, thank you.
These things happen when you introduce extra hormones into your system. My sister was on the implanon birth control and after 3 years she had it removed and in 2 days completely ended her relationship with her man because she realized she hated him. Lol. But everything was fine with the extra hormones. Birth control isn't really a healthy thing at all.
yeah, goodness. Not only does it affect your libido, but it affects other things too. I know it's different for everyone but my negative effect was awful weight gain. I was on it two years ago because I started having sex and my mom didn't want me to be on 16 and pregnant, ahah. I gained about 15-20 lbs. I didn't really attribute it to the birth control, just maybe I was becoming more hungry, idk. But then I went off when I broke up with my bf last summer. And dropped all the weight within a month. I recently went back on it because I liked how it controlled my periods, and I would like to bang. But I've gained like 10 pounds in ONE MONTH that I've been on it. needless to say, I'm pretty sure I'm just going to go au natural from now on. no hormones.
I don't know if the pill is the only thing that may have an effect. My ex-wife and I had a fantastic number of years until she had her tubes tied. Then, the "switch" got thrown the other way. It literally became a "celibate" marriage, and ended in divorce.
when my exgirlfriend started taking birth control, I noticed a decrease in her sexual arousal. It SUCKED. But I guess it was worth it???
I was on one of the synthetic hormone pills for several years (helped other symptoms besides being bc). *I* didn't notice a change in my libido... I still had one. lol. After a bad run with the generic (never again), I switched to an IUD last summer. Holy cow... my libido is waaaay higher. Crazy higher... and I hardly have periods at all now. Couple days of annoyance is about it. Disclaimer: there were about 4 mos of some irregularity and discomfort with iud before my current utopia. it's not for everyone.
My first wife and my ex gf for years, when they started taking bcp's, their libido went to hell. My first wife's libido went down, and she developed several gynecologic problems because of the pill-my ex gf, she went from being horny as hell to having no libido at all. No artificial birth control for my current wife and me-her libido's already real low, and her cholesterol is high-with all this stuff about doing things naturally today, why not in this area, too? It just takes a little discipline, really-I think it's worth it
Any stories of the Libido NOT going down? my gf just got on birth control pills and I've been aching for some raw sex! It would be like fate mocking me if she wqent from being crazily horny now to celibate
I was on the pill for about a year and the same happened to me. It was harder to get in the mood, harder to get off, etc.... I didn't really realize how different it made me feel until we went off of it to get pregnant. NEVER again! We use Natural Family Planning and condoms now.
