Tackling passion and low libido along with pain.
In my last Newsletter, I addressed alternatives for vaginal dryness and comfort. It was a curated list of companies with a variety of lubricants and moisturizers, as well as a probiotic. Here’s the link to that last newsletter if you want to review the list again. Today, I want to delve a little bit more into low libido or passion.
In the last 10 years, experts have come a long way in providing women with options for vaginal and sexual health. It’s a win that the conversation is getting louder and more prevalent. And I love that there are so many choices!
Let’s talk about passion today. That illusive libido that seems to be in limbo with all the hormonal shifts we go through in peri menopause and menopause.
How do we tend to passion?
Is there anything that can flip the switch?
What happens to us when our libidos are low?
● Self-esteem goes down: A decrease in libido can lead to feelings of inadequacy or self-doubt.
● Body image is impacted: Changes in libido can affect how we perceive our bodies, often leading to negative body image.
Additional Effects of Low Libido in Women
● Emotional Well-being: Low libido can contribute to feelings of sadness, frustration, or even depression. We have no passion for our lives.
● Relationship Strain: A decrease in sexual desire can create tension or distance in intimate relationships.
● Physical Health: Hormonal changes affecting libido can also lead to other physical symptoms like fatigue, sleep disturbances, and weight gain.
● Sexual Health: Reduced libido can sometimes be linked to vaginal dryness or discomfort during intercourse, which can further decrease sexual desire.
Possible Solutions:
● Lifestyle Changes: Regular exercise, a balanced diet, and adequate sleep can improve overall energy levels and libido.
● Mental Health Support: Therapy or counseling can help address emotional and psychological factors contributing to low libido.
● Communication: Open discussions with your partner about your feelings and needs can help maintain intimacy and understanding and perhaps bring that passion back.
● Hormone Therapy: Consulting with a healthcare provider about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can help manage symptoms of menopause, including low libido. But this doesn’t come without caveats, and many women just can’t do hormone replacement. You can look at my Fullscript store for a low dose local estriol topical rather than a supplement.
● Homeopathy: The safer alternative. Some remedies absolutely help with libido as well as pain during intercourse. And as you are aware, homeopathy is such a beautifully individualized approach a good remedy will take into consideration all of your symptoms. Not just a few. This is because the body likes to heal from the inside out, and to take care of more serious symptoms first.
Understanding and addressing the multifaceted nature of low libido or passion can help in finding effective solutions and improving overall well-being. And in that multifaceted approach, here are a few remedies that might help:
Natrum Muriaticum: You may recognize this as an ingredient from Yoni Bliss. I put it in the
product because it addresses water tissue balance in the body. But emotionally it addresses
held in or long standing grief in the body. So if there are deep seated emotions that might be
impacting your libido or pain with sexual intercourse this may be the remedy that might help.
Sepia: This is considered a very hormonal remedy, meaning it can address hormonal
fluctuations in a woman’s body. There is more irritability in this remedy. Women can’t stand their
husbands, and likely don’t want to be touched. However, paradoxically there can either be high
or low libido partly because any exertion makes things feel better. Of course, that can also mean
a good work out or a run or something too.
Lycopodium: How’s your digestion doing? LIterally, and figuratively. Having a hard time
digesting life, and totally run out of steam by 4pm? Or do your digestive sx’s kick in at 4? Maybe
there is a power struggle in your relationship and you feel like a doormat.
Ignatia: Another grief remedy here. But it’s grief that is stuck in the throat. And it’s a grief that
can make you feel just a little bit crazy. Or maybe it’s not grief per se, but just emotions that you
don’t know what to do with and can find yourself spewing them all over other people. How can
one find a libido through that? Pain with sex. Yep.
Sulphur: Feeling hot and bothered? Throwing off your covers at night? Need sugar? And
maybe just a little stinkier than you have ever been before. None of this is conducive to feeling
in the mood. And the pain just might be hot and burning with a yellow discharge. Yuck, eh?
These are 5 remedies out of a dozen or more. If you want to try one on your own, let me suggest you get a
30C and take 1 dose (3- 5 pellets), and then see what you notice. If it’s something good, try
another dose 1 week later. If you don’t notice anything, then know it’s likely not the right
remedy.
The good news is that remedies don’t have side effects. But please don’t take a remedy
over and over again when you don’t notice anything because you might pop a symptom that is
the remedy’s. Don’t worry, just stop taking the remedy. Also don’t keep taking a remedy that is
doing some good thinking that more is better. It’s not. In fact more could make it worse.
If this is all too confusing feel free to book a time with me. I am happy to help