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Sexual Dysfunction and Loss of Sexual Desire due to

Hyperparathyroidism causes sex problems and sexual dysfunction in women.We have known for years that people with primary hyperparathyroidism and high blood calcium become depressed, fatigued, and often lose interest in doing many things. Loss of interest in sex, and loss of sexual pleasure used to be discussed only occasionally with our hyperparathyroid patients, but often people are not open to discussing sex, and only a small percent will actually ask questions about sex in front of their spouse (weird?). Complicating the “sex and hyperparathyroidism” issue further is the fact that many patients will bring other family members with them, and you can almost guarantee that your teenage kids don’t want to hear mom ask the doctor about sex–or the lack of sex! Thus we knew high calcium and hyperparathyroidism were making people uninterested in sex, and we knew that many marriages were stressed over lack of sexual interest in our parathyroid patients–we just didn’t know how to approach the topic of sex with our patients very elegantly.

Four years ago we added “Loss of Sexual Appetite” to our hyperparathyroidism online questionnaire for patients having surgery with us. Once the patients identified themselves, we could tailor our conversations to them, talking about sex and hyperparathyroidism when we need to, and avoiding any embarrassing sex question when it is not necessary (there really is a reason why we charge more for our consultations and services than other surgeons–we know 100 times as much, and we can help you more — and we’re nicer!). During the past 4 years, we operated on 9, 689 people who answered our question about their sex life and how hyperparathyroidism / high blood calcium has affected their desire for sex.

Since women get hyperparathyroidism 3 times more often than men, we had 7, 428 women answer our hyperparathyroidism sex question, and 2, 260 men. Over the past year, I’ve been asking some of our women who answered “Yes” to the question about decreased sexual appetite since diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism and had them tell me if things improved or not. THERE IS GOOD NEWS!

Women with Hyperparathyroidism Have a Dramatic Decrease In Sexual Desire and Sexual Enjoyment.

The graph on the left shows that over half of the 7439 women with primary hyperparathyroidism that we operated on over the past 4 years claim a dramatic decrease in sexual desire and sexual enjoyment. We’ve broken it down by age so we can see that high blood calcium affects the sexual drive in all age groups. Another interesting thing we found was that the male SPOUSES of these women said there was a bigger problem than even the parathyroid-affected wife would admit. When we finally get the lady with a parathyroid tumor to chat about this in front of their man, the man many times perceives a bigger problem than the woman will admit. Clearly hyperparathyroidism and high blood calcium was making women fatigued, tired, and even depressed. This was showing up in their sex lives.

Over the past year we’ve been asking some of our parathyroid patients about any improvement in their sexual desires following parathyroid surgery. The results show statistically what we knew from talking to our patients. By huge statistical amounts (p

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