Has anyone else found that often the price of stability on meds is often sex drive? Even if I'm hypo or manic, I don't have much of one, unless I've unwisely decided to stop all my meds (which, yes, has happened a time or 2). I am not on any sort of birth control, so my cycles are natural. Even at the time of the month when a woman's sex drive is supposed to be highest (around ovulation, usually 2 weeks into a standard 28 day cycle though cycles vary quite a bit, which can cause a woman to ovulate earlier or later). I've had no sex drive for so long, it's been pitiful.

I finally have a bit of one again, but I think that is due to being on Adderall, as it mysteriously started a couple days after I began taking Adderall. Hopefully, Adderall doesn't end up causing hypomania, but thank God, it's finally helping me concentrate to read, and if it helps my sex drive, all the better.

It just seems so wrong that one of the costs of keeping BP stable often is your sex drive, at least in my case. Has anyone else experienced this?