DIABETIC: DIABETES & YOUR SEX LIFE
Helpful Tips for People with Diabetes - Improve Sexual Function and Libido
How does a woman feel sexy with a plastic pump attached to her legs, lower back, stomach, or arms? When your husband, boyfriend, or girlfriend puts their hand around your back, how do you feel when they brush against your pump? Do the bruises on your stomach from injections make you feel less desirable? Does the extra weight make you want to dress in loose, less revealing clothing?
Having sex for the first time can be an exciting, embarrassing, and overwhelming event. For young women with diabetes, the fact that we have to think about our blood sugar and/or medical supplies getting in the way can create additional feelings of self-consciousness. Diabetes may keep some women from rushing into having sex, whereas
diabetes may act as a catalyst for others. For the rest, like Ann, diabetes won’t make a difference under the sheets at all.
Been in the mood for love lately? If the answer is not so much, know that it's not just you. Approximately 50 percent of men and 35 percent of women with type 2 diabetes experience sexual difficulties. That's no surprise, considering the host of physical and psychological challenges that often accompany diabetes.
Still, you can clear sexual hurdles and attain an active love life. More than 60 percent of partnered, middle-aged people with diabetes have sex at least two or three times a month, according to a study published in the journal Diabetes Care. That frequency is comparable to people in the same age group without diabetes.
Don't give up and assume sex is just another thing diabetes will take from you. Reliable treatments and coping strategies are available for physical as well as psychological issues. Rediscover your sexual self with the help of these expert tips.
Self-esteem and Sex
My personal theory is that in order to feel sexy and fully enjoy sex, we
need to feel pride instead of shame when it comes to our physical selves.
I think, many women with diabetes are often at war with their bodies.
We deny ourselves of food in order to be thin, beat ourselves up when
we eat more than we think we should, and when we look in the mirror,
we only see the things we don’t like. As women with chronic illnesses,
we are constantly “battling” our bodies into submission, we are “waging
a war” against blood sugars, and war is not sexy. We treat our bodies like
scientific experiments, and our sexual satisfaction will only increase
when we learn to be kind to ourselves and honor our physical selves.
Having good sex and feeling sexy doesn’t come naturally for a lot of
women, and if we want to get good at it, it’ll take practice. We need to
learn to visualize our physical selves as healthy, strong, and sexy.
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