Tumors What is the impact on the sexual life? Cancer patients due to cancer caused by psychological obstacles, physical change, physical decline, reproductive disabilities, and so on, are likely to affect the patient’s sexual expression and sexuality. Occurred in the reproductive organs of the tumor, and surgical or radiation treatment on the resistance of the most common and most serious.
Female genital cancer treatment problem is pain during intercourse, which may be related to surgery or radiation therapy may also be caused due to infection, and sometimes after treatment may be inadequate vaginal lubrication. If sexual intercourse pain, should be invited to pinpoint the cause. If the result of surgery, radiotherapy-induced vaginal shortening, narrow, elastic loss, it should be an early application of dilators or an earlier resumption of sexual intercourse; if the infection caused by pain, should be actively anti-inflammatory treatment to control infections; if insufficient lubrication of the difficulties caused by sexual intercourse , may be topical lubricants.
Male genital tumors and certain types of treatment may directly affect erection, ejaculation, and sexual abilities, but particularly large individual differences in men, the same disease, some people had little impact, some impact was very obvious. If a part of the penis completely removed, leaving the lives of sexual difficulties or loss of sexual ability, may request the urology, plastic surgery expert consultation, see if you can make the penis reconstruction surgery or use of false penis.
Secondly, psychological factors are often induced and aggravated sexual dysfunction in patients with an important reason. As male patients are often a result of illness or the treatment of sexuality concerns and fear caused by erectile dysfunction; female patients due to fear of pain arising from stress, exclusion and other psychological. Efforts should be made to correct for these patients and the nature of their illness, as well as their own misconceptions, to exclude the unnecessary psychological burden and stress. After my explanation, Ms. Chen was pleased to leave the consulting room. After a week, and she excitedly told me that she made a full recovery.
Post-mastectomy breast cancer patients often produce their own physical concerns and worries the United States, and even consider themselves no longer a “complete” woman, worried about whether her husband still love herself. In addition, in order to reduce the chance of recurrence, and many cancer patients are generally larger scope of surgical resection, it may cause physical changes in limb defects, skin scar, and even facial damage, etc., but chemotherapy can also cause hair loss, pigmentation, weight loss and other side effects. Patients tend to be some kind of sense of loss and inferiority, was filled with contradictions and grief, sexual expression of lost confidence in the performance of a passive sexual life of the passage of time and may even develop into frigidity, affecting sexual life harmony. While the spouse is worried that would affect the other’s sex life, and even fear may lead to health to deteriorate.
The most important point is that the patient to overcome an inferiority complex, you have to think about not only because of appearance, but more importantly because of the inherent character, and other valuable point of the respect and admiration by the lover. If the disease before the husband and wife mutual respect and mutual love, a happy satisfied sex life is, after the illness will be restored as ever. The spouse should take the initiative to care for and sympathize with patients to help them overcome the feeling of inferiority, both sides should express his sexual demands and sexual feelings. Resumed sexual activity after surgery, if the surgical incision or wound is still tender and delicate, it is necessary to minimize the squeeze on the chest to avoid pain and discomfort and distraction. The sexual life of cancer patients should pay attention to what the tumor is a special disease, often a threat to the patient’s life, will provide the patient a long period of tension, fear, depressed mood followed, coupled with the wasting disease will provide the patient physical decline in the short term, and temporary reduction of sexual interest in patients and requirements, and the treatment of surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy may also lead to patient deterioration in health, energy shortage.
As we all know, sexual desire and sexual stamina is a prerequisite for life, so the treatment period and in the weak state of the patient is not suitable for sexual life. When the tumor end of treatment, his condition stabilized, with the gradual physical rehabilitation, and treatment of diseases caused by the changes have also been adapted, the patient is to restore the idea of sex life is normal. However, due to the long-term consumption and treatment of disease, the impact of, the patient began to recover when you feel powerless sexual life, and both spouses will have a series of doubts and anxieties, such as “sex life is harmful to patients,” “whether the tumor will be transmitted through sexual life “and so on. In fact, these concerns are unnecessary. Appropriate, harmonious, regular sex life is not only physical harm, but also enhance the patient’s self-confidence, adjusting the patient’s endocrine system is conducive to the patient’s recovery. Because the tumor disease is not infectious, it will not be transmitted through sexual life to each other. Sexuality in recovery, on the other hand also reflects the recovery of the entire body.
So what is the best time to resumption of sex life do?? How to grasp the proper sex life? It is difficult to have a unified fixed answer to the need to treat the patient condition the degree of recovery, the person may be. Generally, sex life does not feel forced, and not feel tired the next day is appropriate. As for the frequency of sex life, sometimes with the disease before the frequency of sexual activity and the patient’s physique, age, and rehabilitation of diseases related to the degree. Even if the recovery is better than disease should also be properly before the sexual frequency, so as to avoid physical over-consumption and affect physical rehabilitation.