It’s a 3 letter word!
Ok I admit to being in my 60s now, but I didn’t lose my sexuality when I was diagnosed with MS over 20 years ago. MS presents some semi-comic, semi-tragic issues when it comes to MS. Overall “performance” can be shipwrecked by any or all of the following: muscular ‘challenges’; reduced physical sensitivity; pain (whether triggered by actions or not); erratic bladder and bowels; sight problems; poor libido;
Aaargh not finished last post! … ending libido (obviously); poor mood and last but not least fatigue (or worse, seizures). The trajectory comedy called “Sex with MS” starts with the difficulties your partner has when you are diagnosed - the shock is bad enough, then there’s possible shattered dreams of things dreamt of when in late middle-age, and then the emotional roller coaster of watching your lived one with MS plus the feeling of losing former closeness. It sounds a war zone of conflicting emotions… but there are things that can help, with determination and a sense of humour! So long live MS sex!!
@Cognitivechaos , the thing I find most frustrating (pun intended) is anorgasmia. Everything still works but my stories are bereft of happy endings. Ugh. This disease. 😅😭