Are Low Hormones Sabotaging Your Satisfying Senior Sex?

If you are a couple for whom sex has lost a priority position, it’s both frustrating and challenging to figure out just how you got into this position.

The standard catch phrase for many couples is some version of “we’ve grown apart.”

Easy to do, and it will take some effort on both your part, and some frank conversations about what you now want your life to be.

But, in many cases, the disconnect some couples experience may have been nudged along by hormones.  Especially for women.

In recent posts, I’ve written about the impact of hormones and low desire, and how low thyroid can cause a cessation of sexual feelings and interest.

Now we have new news about the role of hormones in women’s bodies, especially after menopause.

Many women find they have less interest in or desire for home and hearth when they are finished with menopause. As we’re no longer able to have babies, mother nature has shifted our bodies from a total focus on nurturing and home to a wider world view.

Without their sexual hormones, some women find they are just itching to restart a career they may have left to be a stay at home mom or are thinking about going back to school to finish a degree.

These are normal feelings, and not unexpected, and yet it may derail your love life. All of a sudden you’re finding a wider scope to your life than you’ve had for quite a while, and it can be a bit off putting for even the most accommodating and understanding spouse.

Other women find that without the normal levels of sexual hormones they’ve been accustomed to since puberty, they’ve lost not just their desire, but their edge. Their bodies are changing, with both their skin and their pelvic area becoming much drier. They may be moodier, and/or not as intellectually sharp as they once were.

Yet many women are scared to death to take replacement hormone therapy. Sure they will die from breast cancer. Unfortunately, the study most often quoted in the press was grievously misinterpreted, and unnecessarily frightened all women from even considering hormone replacement therapy.

Now, the study has been reexamined, the results clarified, and I am going to get the accurate information from an expert: Dr. Ricki Pollycove. Dr. Pollycove was invited to present at a recent national forum, reexamining the role of hormone replacement therapy for older women.

I had a chance to interview her…and will bring you all the current information.

Watch this space, the interview will be super and I will certainly share the information she brings to this important topic for all women, not just us seniors.