sickofliquor

im 27 years old and always had a healthy libido. i got sober 7 months ago and a few months after that, had a shake up with the psych meds i was on, about that time, my libido flatlined... i recently started drinking again, and im pretty sure the loss of libido is alcoholism related, just wondering if anyone else has this issue?

LotusBlossom

By the time my alcoholism was rampant and I was drinking a ton, my libido was nonexistent. And mine has always been VERY healthy/rampant. Once I came off alcohol and got healthy again, my libido picked back up to previous levels. I was suffering from some pretty severe depressing however, and depression hinders libido a lot.

Also, the other thing you have to factor in is that for a lot of people, alcohol removes inhibitions so if you are a shy person, you may just be feeling the effect of alcohol making you "friskier" and more "outgoing" as well.

Just some food for thought.

langkah

By posting your concern you obviously care, so that's a good sign it hasn't vanished. What you may find as you go along in the drinking life is fewer takers of lessening quality as you allow yourself to get sicker, which makes that part of your life less satisfying.

More of a 'can do', but 'don't care to do' kind of thing. How extreme that can get is better left unsaid, in case anyone is eating.

On the other hand, if you get better then so do your partners. A lot depends on how your priorities stack up. Like how important it is to you to enjoy your lifetime vs continuing to make yourself sicker. Most alcoholics choosers are broken when it comes to that one.

2granddaughters

What exactly is the priority here?? ......
When I was drinking, anything breathing (or at least still warm) that was female got my heart pumping. I could "fall in love" with the first woman I met at the bar. When we sober up, things change and it takes a while to balance out.
Hopefully, since you are drinking again, you still have a while.

Bob R.

Mark75

Yes... I hear it frequently, and have some experience with that ... libido suffers in early sobriety... it comes back though

HuskyPup

Huh, mine seems to stay at the same, steady clip, and it is something I am very grateful for: Few things are as wonderful as the pleasures of the body, of the flesh; it is to me a kind of divine energy. Though I have noted: sometimes, when hungover, it would actually seem higher, for some odd reason. Could never figure that out.

But happy to have never needed Viagra, to be sure.

Oh, and Libido and the function of sex goes beyond just partners, and babies...lots of research backs up the healing, stress-releasing benefits of healthy sexual pleasure, solo, or with a partner.