I'm thinking many women who deal with endo undergo some form of depression and anxiety from the ongoing struggle of the disease. It exhausts you mentally, physically, and emotionally. I have felt this way for many years now. And always wondered if it was correlated with endo. But those with depression lose interest in many things--sex being one.

Hi ladies. I know I'm late to the party, but I also have the @mirena coil and I don't have much of a drive. In my case, sex has ALWAYS been extremely painful, so I was always surprised that I even had any drive! But I noticed after having the @mirena put in about 2 years ago I had next to nothing. Once, for some reason last year, it suddenly came back, in a way I hadn't seen it for years!! I felt like a nymph, and keen to see if things were any better since my last surgery, I went with some bloke who was a total d*head, the sex didn't hurt quite as much as I feared it might, but it wasn't great either. And since then, next to nothing again and it's been months. I largely blame the @mirena.

Hey hon,

I always had a very healthy sex drive. Had a f*** buddy for the longest time whom I would call a few times a week to take care of business if you see what I mean, I would also masturbate often. I too got the Mirena when I got my diagnostis, because I didnt want to be bothered with taking a daily pill. Although it took care of most of my pelvic pain attack, it also killed my sex drive. I would have sex with my partner only when he demanded it and it was all an act on my part, I was just waiting for it to be done until at some point I couldnt fake it anymore. I had to stop it having sex because it was just so bored about it, and even the idea of taking my clothes off was too much to bear. When I started losing a lot of hair I made some research about Mirena, and sure enough all the online articles I read online talked about, depression, lack of sex drive, weight gain, hair loss. Thats when I decided to have it taken out. Since then (about a year ago) I feel better mentally, I have very few pelvic pain attacks and when I do its very manageable but the sex drive hasnt returned unfortunately I now wonder if its Mirena related or endo related? I really miss the eck of my sex drive. It is so gone that you could tell me that I will not have sex until the day I die and I wouldn't mind. :(

Hi ladies! I'd like more answers on this thread. I never had a problem with my libido before, just too much pain to have a sex life, but it certainly wasn't for lack of wanting one. I've now had the mirena coil for about a year, and my libido has gone completely!! This method of hormonal control was chosen specifically as I didn't get on with any other method, e.g, the pill or the depo, didn't want weight gain, (although got a bit anyway :/ ) and it's the lowest dose hormone. I wasn't expecting this however and don't know what to do! There's no way I could have a relationship now. But my pain is virtually non-existant compared to before. Anyone else dealing with this?

Sorry for your troubles. I lost mine years ago, in my mid twenties, before endo. Mine is most likely due to diabetes.