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this is a really sensitive subject for me, and one for the ladies too...this is the only place where I can go to ask...
I got married two months ago to a man I adore, and a month before the wedding I caught a stomach virus that turned my ten years ibs c into an ibs d time and I am only now starting to get it under control. Its been a nasty three months. Challenging, emotional and hard. On top of all of that I feel like I have been this exhausted person, and have very little interest in sex. I always used to have a healthy sex drive (I am 25) and suddenly, I would rather drink my peppermint tea and sleep. I know its not about my husband because I have no desires towards other men. I feel like I want to let my body rest, in every way, that its tired and worn out and sex requires energy and focus and I feel I don't have it. My husband is very understanding but he has a very high sex drive and I feel I am not satisifying him, even though he doesn't say that. A lot of the time I am having sex because I want to make him happy, and certainly not because I desire it. I simply don't. Its making me so so so so sad. I feel partly not human, I can't enjoy food (I am a food lover), I can't enjoy sex....I suffer with a lot of vaginal infections aswell and am on a low dose pill and wondering if any of this is connected...been on the pill for five years and never noticed this problem.
I feel so sad.
I know this is a personal delicate issue for a lot of people, but I really have nowhere else to turn.
Thank you for listening XXXXXX

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