You might have heard about the famous Parkinson’s disease but do you know if it has anything to do with your sexual life or sex drive? Can it affect your daily life?
Parkinson´s disease is one of the present deadly illness. The cure for this disease hasn´t been found yet, nevertheless, a lot can be done to ease the symptoms.
Parkinson´s is a chronic, progressive movement disorder. It can´t be reversed, symptoms continue and get worse over time.
As already mentioned the cause has not yet been determined and there is no cure at the time. However, medication and several surgeries can help to ease the severity of the disease.
Parkinson´s disease is actually a malfunction in the brain that causes the death of brain cells-neurons.
Ascertain neuron´s produce dopamine and it indirectly controls body coordination and movement, Parkinson´s actually disables control of a person´s normal moving.
How Parkinson´s disease is recognized?
Parkinson´s disease has some very specific symptoms; however, they can be different from person to person:
- Tremor or shaking
- Changes in handwriting (smaller)
- Loss of smell
- Insomnia
- Trouble moving or walking
- Bowel difficulties
- Changed voice (softer or lower voice)
- Masked face
- Dizziness or fainting
- Posture alteration
All of these symptoms might be just transitory if they last for a longer period of time, it´s might be a good time to pay a visit to your doctor.
Treatments for Parkinson´s disease
Parkinson´s treatments combine a wide range of different approaches; however make sure to discuss them over with your neurologist, when deciding which one of them is right for you.
Not all of them are approved and might do you more harm than good.
The main treatments in order to control Parkinson´s are:
- Oral medications (based on raising the dopamine level in the body, have side effects)
- Neurosurgery (usually performed on younger people with no other illnesses)
- Physical and supportive therapies (activity obligatory, exercises for speech,
- Movement-coordination education)
Parkinson´s disease and men´s sexual life
Parkinson´s disease has a big effect on men´s sexual life. Patients might experience depression, relationship discomfort and severely decreased sexual desire.
Sexual dysfunction is quite common even with younger patients. Most frequent dysfunctions found were an erectile failure and premature ejaculation.
Research shows that almost 50% of patients weren´t able to maintain an erection and many male patients were unable to ejaculate or achieve an orgasm.
As sexuality is one of the basic human rights that determine the quality of your life, patients need to be advised and properly treated to improve their sexual life as well.
Healthy sex is a part of satisfaction and can be very beneficial and helpful to the patient´s reactions to treatments.
Some of the male patients have also troubles with premature ejaculation, counseling therapy on the use of specific techniques has proven to improve their lives enormously.
One of the most important decisions in patients struggle with the disease is the decision to include his partner.
Another quite common problem with some male patients is the inability to reach the orgasm or otherwise known as delayed ejaculation.
Additional stimulation is usually very effective and sharing this kind of information with a partner can be very beneficial as well.
Talking to partner and sharing as much as possible will diminish tension, embarrassment and most definitely improve the relationship.
In conclusion, we have discussed information associated with one of the causes of low libido, which is Parkinson’s disease. Therefore, we hope that you can increase your knowledge regarding Parkinson’s disease and how it is associated with low libido.
