I'm not sure how to frame this, and it's kind of personal... sorry if this is "too much information" but I don't know where else to ask and my doctor is kind of useless.
I have sex drive and I have sexual interest. My auto-immune condition is currently in "remission". I go to the gym and can do full workouts without being tired. I'm even considering joining CrossFit. My nutritional status is really good. I would say I'm healthier now than I've ever been after years of disabling CFS and Crohn's. I'm in my early 30's and my blood work looks good across the board now, including hormones.
But there is one problem I'm noticing that I can't figure out.
I can achieve arousal and potency with a sexual partner, but after about 10-15 minutes it's like the lights turn off and I start feeling tired. It almost feels like... my neurotransmitters go kaput, or something. It's like my body can't support the pleasure response. I don't know how to fully describe it. It's not because of emotional distress or some kind of performance psychology. I may still be interested, but the fire just disappears. When it happens, my nervous system gets tired.
So rather than being totally impotent and with low libido, I seem to rather have a limited supply? Can anyone better describe this phenomenon for me and what it could possibly be related to?
I was seriously ill the past 4 years and I am now optimal for the first time in a very long time. It has been a long rebuilding process. However, I'm still figuring out this new reality I'm living in, having home out the other end of a kind of hell experience.
I don't want to use libido enhancers like viagra because I feel like that's forcing the body to do something it shouldn't do, but I also can't fully accept what's happening.
I have sex drive and I have sexual interest. My auto-immune condition is currently in "remission". I go to the gym and can do full workouts without being tired. I'm even considering joining CrossFit. My nutritional status is really good. I would say I'm healthier now than I've ever been after years of disabling CFS and Crohn's. I'm in my early 30's and my blood work looks good across the board now, including hormones.
But there is one problem I'm noticing that I can't figure out.
I can achieve arousal and potency with a sexual partner, but after about 10-15 minutes it's like the lights turn off and I start feeling tired. It almost feels like... my neurotransmitters go kaput, or something. It's like my body can't support the pleasure response. I don't know how to fully describe it. It's not because of emotional distress or some kind of performance psychology. I may still be interested, but the fire just disappears. When it happens, my nervous system gets tired.
So rather than being totally impotent and with low libido, I seem to rather have a limited supply? Can anyone better describe this phenomenon for me and what it could possibly be related to?
I was seriously ill the past 4 years and I am now optimal for the first time in a very long time. It has been a long rebuilding process. However, I'm still figuring out this new reality I'm living in, having home out the other end of a kind of hell experience.
I don't want to use libido enhancers like viagra because I feel like that's forcing the body to do something it shouldn't do, but I also can't fully accept what's happening.