Health Conditions That Can Harm Your Sex Life
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Diabetes
Heart Disease
Depression
Cancer
Chronic Pain
Arthritis
Low Testosterone (Low T)
Menopause
HIV and AIDS
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Parkinson’s Disease
Loss of Bladder Control
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
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SOURCES:
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: “Diabetes & Sexual & Urologic Problems.”
Cleveland Clinic: “Sexual Dysfunction and Disease.”
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: “Having sex after a heart attack - what you need to know.”
American Cancer Society: “How Cancer Affects Sexuality.”
Mayo Clinic: “Chronic Pain Can Interfere with Sexuality.”
American College of Rheumatology: “Sex and Arthritis.”
International Society for Sexual Medicine: “What is low testosterone? What are the symptoms and how is it diagnosed?”
Hormone Health Network: “Low Testosterone.”
The North American Menopause Society: “Effective Treatments for Sexual Problems.”
The Well Project: “Hormones and HIV.”
AIDS: “Risk factors for sexual and erectile dysfunction in HIV-infected men: the role of protease inhibitors.”
National Multiple Sclerosis Society: “Sexual Problems.”
The Michael J. Fox Foundation: “Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms,” “Sexual and Reproductive Health with Parkinson’s.”
Gastroenterology and Hepatology: “Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Sexual Dysfunction.”
U.S. National Library of Medicine: “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.”
International Society for Sexual Medicine: “PTSD and Sexual Dysfunction in Men and Women.”
Anxiety and Depression Association of America: “Treatment for PTSD.”