4. Lowered Sex Drive
Lowered sex drive is also sometimes experienced as a symptom of menopause and perimenopause.
The reason this happens to the body is because of the hormone changes that your body experiences with going through perimenopause. Your hormone levels are naturally changing, and this means that the way your body reacts to different things is going to change and become different to what you are used to. Changes like this should most often be reported to your doctor so that your hormone levels can be tested – usually through a simple blood test.
This is the easiest way to figure out what is really going on in your body rather than speculating over what could or could not be the cause of your discomfort. Lowered sex drive is a somewhat embarrassing personal problem that means many people don’t mention it to their doctor – but can you really afford to take that chance?