Diabetes is a disease that occurs when your blood glucose, also called blood sugar, is too high due to lack of insulin production by the pancreatic. Around the world, more than half billion people are suffering from diabetes. Every  million people lose their life due to diabetes. It has two types one is Type I Diabetes and another one is Type II diabetes. 

Human beings are facing several health issues due to a few reasons. Sometimes few health issues are linked with one or two health issues. In this article we will see in details about the connection between diabetes and sexual issues in couples life. 

Lack of insulin production in the body will automatically increase the blood sugar level into high and it will cause nerve damage and cardiovascular health issues. This diabetes also causes mental health issues and raises relationship issues in couples life. Both men and women are facing sexual issues while they are suffering from diabetes. 

How diabetes affects women’s sexual life?

Diabetes affects women’s sexual life in several ways. Mainly women having high blood sugar levels can cause nerve damage throughout the body. This will mainly slow the sexual performance and also halt sexual pleasure during intercourses with the partner. Women feel it is very hard to reach their sexual pleasure limits.

Several women are not able to get vaginal lubricant during sexual performance. This will surely affect sexual performance and also cause so much pain in the reproductive part vagina. Most of the women feel to avoid the sexual intercourse performance because of this vagina pain. 

Mainly women are facing four sexual health issues when they have diabetes issues. They are…

  • Low sexual desire 
  • Sexual arousal disorder.
  • Orgasmic disorder.
  • Sexual pain disorder.

During periods (menopause), a woman with diabetes may experience sudden drops in her blood sugar levels. This condition also affects her sexual health because she might experience symptoms of low blood sugar during sex performance time. This condition also makes sexual performance more of an inconvenience than a sexual pleasure.

Additionally, women with diabetes issues are more likely to face infections, such as thrush, cystitis, and urinary tract infections. These can also affect sexual intercourse performance.

How diabetes affects men’s sexual life?

Men are playing a vital role during sexual performance. Yes, men are taking huge responsibility during intercourse hour. Several men are providing their excellent efforts during intercourse to fulfill their partner’s wishes at bed. 

Diabetes will encourage the formation of erectile dysfunction or impotence in men’s relationship life. Several men are unable to overcome this erectile dysfunction problem. Lots of men are not knowing the right methods to overcome this health issues.

What is the Erectile Dysfunction problem?

Erectile dysfunction problem means men are unable to get enough erection in their reproductive organ (penis ) during sexual intercourse time. This will halt the relationship performance between couples; Men are unable to fulfill their partner wishes while suffering from this health issue. 

According to the health survey more than 300 millions of men will be suffering from erectile dysfunction in 2025. Most men who are age 40 and above are facing erectile dysfunction problems. Nowadays young men are facing this issue due to modern lifestyles.  It will cause poor blood circulation and cause nerve damages.

These two things will encourage erectile dysfunction problems in men’s relationship life. Type II diabetes will increase the chance of erectile dysfunction problems in men’s relationship life. According to report published in national library of medicine, 10–20 percent of cases of Erectile dysfunction are due to mental health issues. These mental health issues are also connected with the long term diabetes problem. 

How to deal with diabetes issues?

Diabetes health issues are easily dealt with by following the health care expert’s advice regularly. Consuming healthy and natural food diets and avoiding high carbohydrates food items, adding more fiber rich food items will help to increase the body health conditions. Both men and women can easily attach small insulin pumps in the body to supply non-stop insulin to keep the blood sugar level under control.

Couples can easily detach the insulin pump one hour before starting the sexual intercourse performance. But the patients should reattach the insulin pump again in their body within 45 to 60 minutes after finishing the sexual intercourse performance. Diabetes patients can easily share their feelings about the insulin pump with the partner, which will help to understand the condition and also increase the mutual understanding between each other. Diabetes patient can also taking medicine to control the high sugar level.

Couples should be very careful about their mental health issues, because these mental health issues also affect the quality of sexual performance. So, couples should be more alert about the mental health issue such as

  • Changes to self-image
  • Anxiety
  • Concerns about over body weight gain
  • Depression
  • Isolation
  • Loneliness
  • Loss of self-esteem

Treatment choice for women

Women can easily overcome their sexual health issues by following some simple methods. Mainly women can apply vaginal lubricant cream on their reproductive organ vagina before starting sex to reduce pain during intercourse. The vaginal lubricant cream should be water-based to keep the vagina smooth and soft for better relationship performance.

Treatment Choice for men 

Men can easily deal with erectile dysfunction problems by following several treatments. Medicine treatment, non-medicine treatment and natural remedies available to deal male impotence problems. But most of the men like to choose the medicine treatment, because of its effective results within a short period of time. Medicine products available for dealing with erectile dysfunction problems are kamagra, Zenegra, sildenafil oral jelly, super p force and cenforce.