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Estrogen and sex drive

Started by CosmicJoke, June 15, 2016, 03:54:42 PM

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CosmicJoke

Hi everyone, so I've noticed that sometimes, right after taking a pill of estradiol. Sometimes my breasts and nipple feel/look very full and then I even feel in the mood for sex, though I am not sexually active.
I know testosterone is the hormone that is strongly associated with sex drive, but does estrogen play a role in this as well?
My levels of estrogen are high actually, because I have been taking estradiol in pill form for several years. I have not actually touched on the subject of sex drive though. I had kind of just assumed that that was all going to go out the window after I had an orchiectomy done.
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KayXo

Some anecdotal and scientific evidence suggests estrogen can indeed boost libido, but not to the same extent as testosterone or quite in the same way.
I am not a medical doctor, nor a scientist - opinions expressed by me on the subject of HRT are merely based on my own review of some of the scientific literature over the last decade or so, on anecdotal evidence from women in various discussion forums that I have come across, and my personal experience

On HRT since early 2004
Post-op since late 2005
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