Epilepsy patients are apt to get impotence?

Epilepsy patients are apt to get impotence?

The ancients thinks epilepsy occur due to the mother pregnant by chavez from terror of all terror ". Some mistakenly think is caused by premature sexual intercourse, excessive, and now it is no scientific basis.

So, a lot of people with epilepsy clinical with sexual dysfunction, one of the reasons? A variety of reasons. Plenty of advanced nerve in the brain discharge right temporal lobe lesions in part, the part that can appear sexual dysfunction, lesions can not only performance for sexual function lowly, also can show hyperthyroidism or priapism is sexual.

In addition, people with epilepsy treatment, often need take strong sedative pills as dilantin sodium and phenobarbital was etc, these drugs to patients for long-term use of libido and sexual response, erectile all have certain effect. Plus disease itself makes them depressed, spirit is depressed, conceit is overweight, etc. Together, these factors, is the common reason occurred with epilepsy.