Female Sexual Dysfunction

[jenna11]

I am a 21 year old, fairly healthy female, in a 10 month old relationship. I have had very low sexual desire throughout all of my relationships. It has been a problem in all of these relationships. I desire sex about once a month, at most. My current partner would like it every day, and views sex as an essential part of a relationship.

My partner and I are currently in relationship counselling, dealing with sexual and communication issues. I am also in individual counselling, dealing with my lingering depression I am currently being treated by a psychiatrist for ADHD I have been on several anti-depressants over the last 5 years, including many different versions of SSRIs. I am not currently on any anti-depressants. I recently tried the anti-depressant Wellbutrin, and I found it helped me significantly in both mood and libido. Unfortunately I had to go off it due to an allergic reaction. There are no other anti-depressants which work the same way as Wellbutrin, so I have no recourse there.

Before trying Wellbutrin I changed my birth control pill from Yasmin to Loette to try to help with libido. I went off Loette because it caused acne and hair growth. I am not currently on a birth control pill. I have just been prescribed Requip (ropinirole, a drug used to treat parkinson's) as I feel the dopaminergic effect might be similar to that of Wellbutrin, but I haven't started taking it yet. I am not certain that Requip will be effective, as clinical trials have not been very promising.

The problem is restricted to low libido, I don't experience any other aspects of sexual dysfunction. I am quite able to get turned on (though not as easily as when I was on Wellbutrin) and I always orgasm during sex.

One more thing I want to mention is a symptom that I haven't come across in my reading of female sexual dysfunction: when I do have sex with my partner, it feels as though my body and my mind are disconnected. My body finds it pleasurable, but my mind is disinterested. I find it hard to stay focussed and turned on, and I find it hard to fantasise.

I'm at the end of my rope. Where can I turn to next?

[jenna11]

also I live in Australia, sorry for not mentioning that.

[UroDoc]

The disconnect between body and mind is common in depression/anxiety. I would try the requip and see what happens, don't worry about the studies it only has to work for you. If it doesn't help hen move on but don't worry about it now, good luck