5 tips for sex with chronic degenerative diseases

• April 26, 2024

Chronic degenerative diseases, as well as the factors that detonate them (obesity, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, drinking alcohol, etc.) are one of the evils that modify and diminish the quality of life currently in all its areas, including the sexuality.

In this regard, several studies report a relationship between chronic degenerative diseases and sexual dysfunctions : of desire, orgasm and excitement, according to the Mexican Association of Sexual Health A.C. .

Among the chronic degenerative diseases that are the organic cause of sexual dysfunctions are: diabetes, cancer, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, multiple sclerosis and rheumatic diseases.

According to a study of the University of Chicago , up to 70% of men and 62% of women of middle age or older, who suffer diabetes , maintains sexual intercourse two or three times a month in a satisfactory manner.

For this, it is important to follow certain recommendations, according to a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, from the United States:

1. Each case is particular, but serving as a couple helps to facilitate more attention to dysfunctions that cause chronic degenerative diseases, such as the loss of desire, difficulties in reaching orgasm, impotence, etc ... in addition to the pain or difficulties of each condition.

2. The couple should receive help to regain sensitivity through a series of progressive exercises in which both will learn to give and receive sexual pleasure , as well as to forget the routine.

3. Sex therapy experts often encourage couples to remember what it was about time ago to make love as well as what excited them most. They also encourage recreating the first sexual encounters of the couple.

4. Each of us associates the smells with memories, feelings and emotions. There are experts who believe in the power of the essences that make use of these connections. To trigger the desire, they suggest that you choose a perfume whose qualities you see instinctively immersed.

5. Follow their treatments and taking medications, rehabilitation therapies, as well as hormone replacement (as the case may be), are strategies that will allow a couple to return to a sex life active and pleasurable.

Keep in mind that most people with sexual dysfunctions , associated to chronic degenerative diseases , they have at least two of them, so it is essential that in addition to being treated by a psychologist or sexual therapist, their treatment is carried out according to the organic cause that originates them.

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