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sex drive
Tue, 10/10/2006 - 02:15Comments
Re: sex drive
Submitted by Naomi D. on Mon, 2009-06-22 - 00:00
I'm new to this forum, but this one is unfortunately the most important one to my marriage. I have been on Tegretol and Cloabazam for almost 8 years and I was just changed over to topamax two months ago now. It took my husband almost 4 years to get me in the mood enough for me to get pregnant with our second child! I have no desire, and it is almost breaking up our marriage. It has been explained that it is nothing personal towards him by the doctors, but I can understand needs. I am not jealous if he goes on-line to; or watches adult shows, and I seriously wouldn't be bothered if he was with someone for this reason! It's that bad!!! 8 years is a very long time to only be involved with your wife of 11 years only 3-4 times per year!! We have no help from our doctors to help with these side effects but I noticed someone suggested peanut butter... can you tell me why and maybe hand out any other suggestions? Thank you to anyone who might help.
I'm new to this forum, but this one is unfortunately the most important one to my marriage. I have been on Tegretol and Cloabazam for almost 8 years and I was just changed over to topamax two months ago now. It took my husband almost 4 years to get me in the mood enough for me to get pregnant with our second child! I have no desire, and it is almost breaking up our marriage. It has been explained that it is nothing personal towards him by the doctors, but I can understand needs. I am not jealous if he goes on-line to; or watches adult shows, and I seriously wouldn't be bothered if he was with someone for this reason! It's that bad!!! 8 years is a very long time to only be involved with your wife of 11 years only 3-4 times per year!! We have no help from our doctors to help with these side effects but I noticed someone suggested peanut butter... can you tell me why and maybe hand out any other suggestions? Thank you to anyone who might help.
Re: sex drive
Submitted by kflaherty on Wed, 2013-04-03 - 14:56
I feel like a bit of a pervert; I've been on varying doses of topiramate since around 16. 10 years later I'm on a cocktail of 100mg topiramate, 100mg sertraline, 100mg quetiapine 400mg lamotrigine for grand mals, and I am insatiable. I try to exercise (as little as possible lol), and that helps a lot, and kegels are a girl's best friend. The hard part is finding a guy willing to make out during your postictal state, am I right ladies???