My sex drive isn't going anywhere :-/ ....

[Kmomofthree]

I've been going at my sway pretty hard but I thought lowering T levels would lower sex drive. ...... it doesn't appear to doing that. Is that ok? Normal?

[atomic sagebrush]

There are a lot of misconceptions about testosterone for female behavior and also for swaying.

1)Testosterone has NEVER been shown to actually sway. Self-reported answers on a personality quiz showed that there are personality differences in moms of boys and moms of girls. But they never once did a testosterone blood test to confirm this and even more damning, several studies have clearly shown that testosterone levels have zero impact on a woman's personality and behavior anyway. Fluctuations in estrogen and progesterone that occur in the menstrual cycle affect our personalities and behavior very very much. So basically, we don't really even know what is going on with T levels. We often use the expression of high T levels to mean a lot of things/concepts that we really don't KNOW. Even I often get lazy and do it just because I want everyone to get what I'm talking about but testosterone levels and swaying is a very big unknown to me.

2)There is no solid link between testosterone and female sex drive. In fact, many studies have found the opposite, that T levels in women really don't seem to make much of a difference, with women with sky high levels reporting low desire and women with low levels reporting high or normal. The ONLY people who have been shown to have increased desire from testosterone are men (who have way, way more T than we do) and postmenopausal women, particularly those who had their ovaries surgically removed and were throw into menopause overnight. Those of us in childbearing years, testosterone levels have not been shown to have any consistent relationship to female desire.

All that having been said I will say that I personally felt a very low sex desire before I conceived my daughter. But I had a lot going on in my life right then and for women, sex is a very mental game and I believe that had way more to do with it than any T levels. At other times in my life I was on an LE style diet and had a very high sex drive (TMI alert LOL) It's just not so obvious and cut and dry as you are thinking of it, and so I don't think it is any cause for concern or alarm. :)