3 drugs that accidentally reduce sexual desire

Birth control pills, antidepressants, and diabetes medications inhibit hormones, leading to decreased libido.

If you're having trouble getting it up, check your medicine cabinet, as some of these medications could be to blame, according to Redorbit.

Contraceptive pills

A 2006 study by Boston University (USA) conducted by Irwin Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, showed that birth control pills have a long-term impact on sexual desire in some women. The level of SHBG (also known as sex-binding hormone) in the group of women who used birth control pills and stopped for 4 months was still twice as high as those who never used them.

Studies show that birth control pills can affect sexual desire in some women.

Antidepressants

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) cause a variety of side effects that can lead to sexual dysfunction. Antidepressants are designed to improve the mood of depressed people by altering the balance of chemicals in the brain. Many experts warn that these changes can have a negative impact on sexual response, an effect that increases with increasing doses.

Diabetes medication

Diabetes and the drugs used to treat it all reduce sexual desire, arousal and orgasm. Experts recommend that diabetes is one of the main causes affecting sexual function in both sexes. Therefore, how to control blood sugar levels well not only helps maintain the patient's health, minimize dangerous complications that damage the kidneys, eyes, nerves, legs and heart but also helps maintain the quality of sex life.

According to VNE