Dealing with the symptoms of menopause can disrupt your every day routines and activities. It can even take a toll on your well being. Women will even experience a loss of their sex drive and worse, painful intercourse. Women don’t need to sacrifice pleasant and satisfying sex just because of menopause. There are things to do but it first starts with understanding why it happens.

It’s normal for women to experience low libido during this time. During menopause, estrogen levels decrease. A decrease in estrogen will cause the vaginal walls to become dry and thinner, making them lose their elasticity. Take a vagina that’s lost its elasticity, and combine that with mood swings, hot flashes, and even depression, and no wonder why women have lost that drive. A lot can be done to bring the pleasure back during these bodily changes.


What causes low libido?

Hormones can play a big part in low libido. During menopause, the bodily gradually decreases production of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Estrogen is responsible for heightened sensitivity during intercourse. Progesterone keep your libido up and testosterone boosts sexual desire and lubricates the vagina. When there is a decrease in these hormones, you can see why there is a decrease in a womans sex drive. But the hormones aren’t the only thing to blame. Low libido can also be a cause of other menopausal symptoms:

Fatigue: women experience fatigue during menopause from having to deal with hot flashes, insomnia and night sweats. Sex can sometimes be the last thing on a womans mind when she is overly tired.

Depression: When a woman goes through menopause, she can experience a feeling of loss because of becoming infertile. Losing her youth and feeling inadequate can make her feel sad. Also, having to deal with all of the other symptoms associated with menopause can leave the woman feeling depressed. This can result in not feeling in the mood.

Vaginal Dryness: A dry vaginal wall can make sexual intercourse very painful. Lubrication just isn’t what it used to be. The vagina also becomes thin and loses its elasticity due to declining estrogen levels, resulting in unpleasurable sex for both partners. A dry, thin, loose vagina isn’t exactly the best ingredients for pleasurable sex. It’s easy to see why women lose their sex drive.

Low self esteem: Changes in the woman’s body can sometimes be uncomfortable. Weight gain, muscle loss, and a changed vagina can really lower a woman’s confidence. If a woman isn’t comfortable with her changing body, then she will most likely not be comfortable having sex.


Whats the solution?

Some woman don’t mind the lowered libido, while others suffer from it. If low libido is causing a distance between you and your partner, it may be problematic.

There are a few possible treatments that can bring back your libido and make sex pleasurable and enjoyable again.

Lubricants: A lubricant will make the vagina moist and wont cause pain when the penis is inserted, thus making sex pleasurable again. Although a lubricant wont boost your libido, it will provide temporary relief.

Hormone creams/ rejuvenation creams: creams containing estrogen-like properties can increase glood flow to the vagina which results in heightened sensitivity. Some creams even help to give a tightening sensation, allowing both partners to feel more pleasure. Rejuvination creams also claim to help tighten and rejuvenate the vagina over time.

Hormone Replacement Therapy: This treatment also known by the abbreviations HRT doesn’t exactly fix a low libido but can reduce the signs and symptoms of menopause that link to low libido. Hormone therapy involves supplying the body with adequate amounts of estrogen and progesterone since the ovaries are no longer producing a sufficient amount.

Testosterone Replacement Therapy: TRT the long term safety of testosterone therapy is unknown but it has proven to increase sexual drive. More research is being done on finding the safest and most effective TRT.