2004-11-11
A New Hope!
First of all, what a rush to have people read your diary and what a compliment that people read it and cared enough to leave a comment back. Thanks to all of you that took to time to read and double thanks to those leaving comments. A special shout out to Phangasm for plugging my diary in a recent entry. I enjoy his musings and fantasies and I am glad he enjoys mine as well. I am also touched by those of you who have listed my diary as a favorite; I make no promises as to quality, but I will continue to bare my thoughts as though no one is reading.
So I ended my last entry asking if anyone out there wanted to play amateur psychologist (sort of like I enjoy playing amateur gynecologist). As I mentioned, thanks to those of you who sent me notes and please feel free to continue to do so. I usually don’t remember my dreams, let alone write them down, that was one of the reasons that my dream the other night was so special. I got to thinking more about it yesterday afternoon after I wrote the dream down. Thanks to Frisky-girl adding me as one of her favorites (thank you) I found her diary and read her entries sequentially. Her bout with hyperlipidemia (well specifically sounds like hypertriglyceridemia (keep the faith and feel the Dland love, girl)) started me thinking that maybe I have been thinking about this all wrong. Could it be that there is a medical condition underlying my wife’s lack of libido, hopefully a treatable medical condition…?
While my wife was pregnant with our first child, she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, basically a situation where the body’s immune system attacks the thyroid gland and kills it. Without the thyroid or with a diminished amount of the hormones secreted by the thyroid, the body can start to get pretty wacky; if left untreated the disease makes its victims seriously ill. This condition usually attacks women, but is pretty easily treated with oral dosages of the thyroid hormones that are not being naturally produced. My wife visits her Endocrinologist about four times a year to adjust her dosage level, however, he tells her once they get it correct, she will only need to come back once a year.
Thinking back on our relationship, our sex life changed right around the time she was diagnosed. Now, I have always assumed that this was just due to pregnancy, having children around, etc., etc, those of you married with children probably know what I mean. But, as I said, it got me to thinking, what if it were not just due to the things that I have always assumed? A little Internet research yesterday led me to several articles and discussions regarding female sexual dysfunction linked to hypothyroidism; even treated hypothyroidism. For me, it was a Eureka moment! I printed off several pages of information, some of which specifically discussed the brand of medication my wife has been taking, and took them home. My wife was not in an open-minded mood last night, so I did not share the information with her, but I did point it out to her this morning and hopefully she will read it and digest it today. If I can at least get her to agree to discuss this with her doctor the next time she goes in for a visit, maybe we can tinker with her medication and dosage a little bit and see if that could be the underlying problem. Hope springs eternal! Let’s hope we are on to something and just maybe it was significant that there was a nurse in my dream last night after all!!! ;-)
-- rockabillie at 3:14 p.m.