Hi everyone
I'm 46 and i've been suffering from decreased sex drive since I turned 40("Life begins at 40 eh?") before that I always considered myself to have a very healthy sex drive.
Three months ago I was travelling and decided to get one of all these comprehensive medical checks, it was very cheap so I thought why not. It turns out that I had a swollen thyroid on my neck, now I am back in the UK and waiting to get bloods done on the National Health Service, I don't know how long this will take.
These days my nether region has just been feeling like a useless sack of skin, rather numb, and as i said my sex drive has gone way down and it's a real issue that I need to sort out. When I masturbate or have sex the orgasms are usually pretty poor, and come shots are not at their formal glory, also the tip of my penis doesn't have that feeling that it used to have. It also takes me longer to get erect that it used to, I get morning woods pretty much everyday currently, but not throbbers, more like 80%.
Anyway back to the thyroid, so I was looking at that initial medical test and I notice that my FREE T3 looks normal at 3.15 pg/ml (reference range 1.41-3.71 pg/ml) which seems to be normal, BUT my Free T4 reading is 0.85 ng/dl (reference range of 0.70-1.48 ng/dl which seems pretty darn low.
Is it possible the thyroid issue is causing my low sex drive/libido?
I will of course get some answers from the hospital here, but first I have to get my appointment and then get the results so who knows how long that will take.
I'm 46 and i've been suffering from decreased sex drive since I turned 40("Life begins at 40 eh?") before that I always considered myself to have a very healthy sex drive.
Three months ago I was travelling and decided to get one of all these comprehensive medical checks, it was very cheap so I thought why not. It turns out that I had a swollen thyroid on my neck, now I am back in the UK and waiting to get bloods done on the National Health Service, I don't know how long this will take.
These days my nether region has just been feeling like a useless sack of skin, rather numb, and as i said my sex drive has gone way down and it's a real issue that I need to sort out. When I masturbate or have sex the orgasms are usually pretty poor, and come shots are not at their formal glory, also the tip of my penis doesn't have that feeling that it used to have. It also takes me longer to get erect that it used to, I get morning woods pretty much everyday currently, but not throbbers, more like 80%.
Anyway back to the thyroid, so I was looking at that initial medical test and I notice that my FREE T3 looks normal at 3.15 pg/ml (reference range 1.41-3.71 pg/ml) which seems to be normal, BUT my Free T4 reading is 0.85 ng/dl (reference range of 0.70-1.48 ng/dl which seems pretty darn low.
Is it possible the thyroid issue is causing my low sex drive/libido?
I will of course get some answers from the hospital here, but first I have to get my appointment and then get the results so who knows how long that will take.
