I'd like to add, are you on birth control pills and if so were there any changes pertaining to that, change of type? Do you get excited/aroused by porn or erotic images or reading? I'm sort of in the same boat as you but I've been married for 17 years and m libido has been so low that I don't fantasize or get interested in porn; erotic novels helped initially but my ability to be aroused by them didn't last, got desensitized or something. I've been on antidepressants all my life, went into menopause last year and so went off the pill which I had also been on all my life. It kills me that both of those could have contributed to a less than satisfying sex life. I went off the antidepressants for awhile but have lot of anxiety, so a psychiatrist put me on a new SSRI which is supposed to be sex-neutral. I had blood drawn last week to test my hormones and my doctor looked up side effects for this SSRI and low and behold, it also has sexual issues as a side effect! So, I want to go off of it, too. I dont' know the answers, yet, but these are things to look into. I fear I may just have repression and intimacy issues, but find it odd that I don't fantasize or see sexual images and get a response.
Another thing I'm trying, without much success due to a family visit, is to go off gluten since I had read forums where women said their libido came back when they went gluten-free.
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