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Sex Drive

kaplan1975

By kaplan1975
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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kaplan1975 Newbie
kaplan1975
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What does an accidental glutening do to your sex drive? Other than the obvious symptoms of feeling sick and tired for 2-3 days, my sex drive is greatly increased.

Just curious if anyone else noticed a correlation. I have done some reading and it seems that testosterone and histamine are often elevated during the autoimmune reaction when a celiac eats gluten...these also drive sex drive.

I am male and understand that autoimmune diseases affect more females so maybe it is not a common symptom...

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Mother of Jibril Enthusiast
Mother of Jibril
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For me...

Fatigue + constipation + pain + not enough hormones = NO interest in sex :ph34r:

Things are better since I've changed my diet, but it took a while.

GFqueen17 Contributor
GFqueen17
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well personally, for me, its pretty much the opposite.

kaplan1975 Newbie
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I figured that might be the case for at least the women...elevated histamine is a reaction to allergies, autoimmune disease, etc and they prescribe histamine for women who are menopausal and lack sex drive.

I feel that I react on a systematic basis which is why I feel I have had so many serious symptoms in addition to the typical digestive troubles...not to mention a poor lifestyle filled with lots of stuff that just aggravated the heck everything.

Any guys with similar symptoms? I figure it has to be affecting you in more ways than just D and damage small intestines, but hints that other autoimmune diseases on the horizon, Sjogrens, etc. It is a strange feeling to feel exhausted, sick, depressed, etc but have a juvenile sex drive.

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