Lack of sexual desire in cancer treatment, both men and women of sexual aspects may lose interest. This is a very normal phenomenon, only a handful of people in life-threatening but also to the interest of sexy.
Their treatment, the reasons for the loss of sexual desire from the fear, depression, nausea or pain. In addition, the cancer treatment would undermine the normal hormone secretion, reducing male hormones directly inhibited sexual desire; female hormones decrease to make vaginal dryness, but also lead to low libido.
If the two sides has hindered normal relations, it will lead to one or both partners may lose interested. Any impact on women's emotional and exciting ideas would affect their sexual desire. The results of their vagina will become tight and dry, which can cause discomfort when having sexual intercourse. Because many people get cancer, who are worried about their partner for their physical changes or because the word cancer and lose interest. There are many people are worried about sex life cause cancer recurrence, and thus losing interested.
Women with pain during sexual intercourse, pain is the most common one, was made to cater for the size of the vagina or moisture changes. These changes may be due to pelvic surgery, radiation therapy or treatment due to the impact of female hormone.
Sometimes this pain will trigger a problem, known as acquired or secondary vaginismus. Dr. Cheng Cheng-chieh said that if the women vaginismus, in the vaginal muscles around the openings will become tight, which is due to one-third of the vagina the next paragraph of involuntary muscle contraction, which makes her partner can not be inserted into the vagina with the penis. When he tried to insert the time, women will be tightening vaginal muscles spasm, and pain is very, vaginismus may, by a number of recommendations and specific treatment of relaxation training.
Early menopause treatment of cancer affecting women sex life Another common problem is early menopause, certain types of cancer surgery to remove both ovaries, or ovaries as a result of receiving chemotherapy or pelvic radiation therapy accepted by the injury, will Estrogen loss caused by hot flashes, vaginal atrophy (vaginal variable tight and dry). Some women can use the hormone preparations to solve these problems, but some of gynecologic cancer can not use estrogen. Early menopausal women, sometimes less so androgen secretion of vaginal dryness and reduce the sense of sexual desire and pleasure.
Orgasm in cancer treatment, the treatment of postmenopausal women can still reach orgasm, unless the treatment of cancer to spinal cord injury or genital region caused no feeling, or cancer surgery to remove the sensitive areas, such as the clitoris or vagina under the paragraph. Sometimes, the pain caused by sexual intercourse will also impede the women to reach orgasm. In some cases, women may try to use different intercourse positions or genital touching way, and need to re-learn how to achieve orgasm.
【Radical hysterectomy】 radical hysterectomy is a major surgery for the treatment of early cervical cancer, in particular, is the first IB, IIA period of cervical cancer. Removal of the uterus and surrounding tissue, but also together with resection of the cervix and cervical nearly 23 cm long vagina. And endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer are less resection organization.
If it is younger than 45-year-old women, the situation in cancer security reasons, the physician will usually try to retain at least one side of the ovary. Side of the ovarian hormones can produce enough to prevent the lack of female hormones. Age over 45-year-old female, usually on both sides of ovary removal because of natural age of menopause has been approaching, ovarian imminent natural shrinkage, and early detection of ovarian cancer is not easy.
This operation will not change women's ability to feel sexual pleasure. Although the vagina becomes shorter, but will gradually extend the number of sexual intercourse, and the clitoris retains sensitivity ago, women did not require the existence of the uterus or cervix to achieve orgasm.
In hysterectomy, some women feel that they are no longer a woman, who described himself as "an empty shell", like this negative thoughts will affect their sexual function and orgasm.
When the cancer can cause pain during sex or bleeding, hysterectomy can stop these symptoms, enhance quality of life of women. Although the vagina becomes shallower, the spouses should be to adapt to such a change. In sexual intercourse before caressing spend more time in order to increase the length of the vagina and excitement.
If the vagina is really so shallow, and women have been able to use some method to allow her partner have the same depth of feeling that women can be the size of the labia minora and thigh top painted lubricant, and when having sexual intercourse clamping her thighs, and do not get too bent legs.
Radical hysterectomy due to uterine around the organization will be harmed, and the temporary impact of female urinary system. Usually in the weeks after surgery, women often can not emptying her bladder, thus voiding the need to learn from time to time, or self-catheterization to prevent urinary tract infection, and self-catheterization is the use of lubrication too small tube through the urethra into the bladder to drainage of residual urine.
Pelvic radiotherapy radiotherapy usually affect women's sexual life, especially when the ovaries to accept high-dose radiation, its function may be shut down. May sometimes be short-lived, but most are permanent.
Women suffering from cervical cancer due to receive high-dose pelvic radiotherapy, so ovarian damage may be permanent. Whether to accept what dose pelvic radiation therapy, less than 50-year-old female, should be discussed with a doctor on matters of contraception, because they still may be unwanted pregnancies.
Pelvic radiation therapy-induced effects of the vagina of another within its own organization. Radiation therapy in this period, the irradiated parts of the organization will become pink and inflammation, and sometimes looks like the sun burn. Radiotherapy treatment during and after a few weeks, women may feel a sense of the vagina have tenderness. When these symptoms improve, the scar would have. Thick-walled vagina will produce fibrosis and thickening. Sexual excitement or sexual intercourse when the vaginal wall may not be able to expand.
Radiation therapy on vaginal injury, will make it thinner and fragile lining. Many women during sexual intercourse may not feel pain, but will find that there was a slight bleeding phenomenon. Some women's vaginal ulcers occur or punctate case, these sites may be a few months after the end of radiation therapy cured.
Pelvic radiation therapy will always have a scar makes the vagina shorter or narrower, so women may no longer be able to have sexual intercourse. Therefore, she must be several times a week by the self-expansion of the vagina, to maintain the shape of the vagina wall. Another way to maintain vaginal patency is at least 3-4 times a week intercourse.
Another method is to use vaginal wand. Vaginal wand is a plastic or rubber tube used to the expansion of the vagina. Real-time sexual life is not interested in women, still need to maintain the normal size of vagina, gynecological examinations to enable a more comfortable and be able to smoothly. This is a follow-up treatment after the conclusion of an important part.
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