How thyroid affect sexuality?

How thyroid  affect sexuality?

Thyroid diseases such as hyperthyroidism, hormone androgen, can appear excitable prone to temper, appetite soar, instead of angular, muscle pain, weakness, bone road heartbeat added fast appear even heart hypertrophy, cardiac failure, sexual function lowly, including menstrual abnormalities and impotence symptoms. Others are outstanding, hand eye from above, such as chatter signs can be seen, the role of thyroid hormone almost affected the whole body all systems, especially extends to many important system functions. Thyroxine on reproductive system influence of negative effects or say is inhibition. Whatever thyroxine secrete excessive or too little, will cause libido drops, menstrual abnormalities and erectile dysfunction. Rather like the people could guess: thyroid element secretes hyperthyroidism, reduce libido will bring libido fell.

Thyroid disorders and sexual contact between exist obvious the emergence of impotence, but are also common clinically rarely see because of impotence and attendance. The reasons may be, it is other symptoms heavier, covering up impotence, the impact of the state takes sexual patient careless. 2 it is due to the influence of traditional concepts make patient difficult to reluctant which speaking, so as not to be sneered at. Three is the patient's self suppression, think should not be considered and talked about the matter. Fourth, is medical or surgical doctors did not realize that this kind of situation, think no special care and treatment in this respect: actually it's doctors will have to consider and guidance to recover from illness effect. Thyroid disease diagnosis is according to the symptoms and determine the T3, T4 blood levels in the blood (T: is free thyroxine, T4 is blood the thyroid element with state). These two kinds of hormone leels of basic reflects the state of thyroid function, is a necessary examination.

(1) low thyroid function is due to low thyroid function: the thyroid hormone caused by inadequate secretion. Its corresponding clinical symptoms were, afraid of the cold, dry skin, weight loss, spiritual indifference, edema, and constipation, etc, in the above symptoms at the same time with low sexual desire and impotence, some people can check the blood prolactin content increased. Taking thyroxine drugs, can complement the thyroid element content inside, and can reach restore libido and erectile function effect.

(2) the thyroid function hyperthyroidism is thyroid function hyperthyroidism: because thyroxine secrete excessive be caused by. Its corresponding clinical symptoms, sweat, lack of power, is, eating and heart rate fast weight loss, etc.; Some people also can appear breast increases, emotional excitable and impotence, this is not like some say is entirely caused by psychological factors (of course, can not completely ruled out psychological factors, especially those sex oppression and sexual concept conservative). Low sexual desire and Yang spasm of thyroid function is a kind of expression hyperthyroidism, some people think, no special treatment, want to be able to control hyperthyroidism can solve sexual issues. In fact for these patients should carry out the psychological treatment.

It is worth mentioning a phenomenon is, thyroid function in hyperthyroidism, blood testosterone content is increased. This kind of phenomenon testosterone may be increased in the high metabolism results. But these testosterone is adsorption in the plasma protein. From the front in the introduction we know, only free testosterone just have real biological utility, and plasma protein together in testosterone is not biologically utility, thyroid function in the blood hyperkinetic testosterone is this kind of protein binding without biological function, and they will not state the release of testosterone adsorption koo nine, liberation become free testosterone. So even if blood there are more testosterone also cannot play a role, impotence also follows.