Diabetes can lead a normal sexual life. It is a common metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugar. As the standard of living gets better nowadays, the incidence of diabetes increases, especially in older people, and also hereditary diabetes is seen in young people. If the blood sugar is not well controlled, it may affect the sex life. The typical clinical symptoms of diabetes are “three more and one less”, i.e., drinking more, eating more, urinating more and losing weight; however, not all patients are like this, some patients mainly drink more and urinate more, some mainly lose weight and are weak, some have acute or chronic complications as the first symptom, and further examination will reveal diabetes, such as cerebrovascular accident, coronary heart disease, external vaginal disease in female patients. coronary heart disease, itchy external vagina in female patients, etc.
Diabetic patients are able to have a normal sex life, as long as they take their glucose-lowering medications as prescribed, pay attention to their diet, control their weight, eat more vegetables, not eat foods with high sugar content, and test their blood sugar regularly to control their blood sugar levels. Long-term diabetic patients, do not pay attention to control blood sugar may lead to a variety of complications, especially eye, kidney, heart, blood vessels, nerves and other chronic complications, which may cause patients too much mental stress, depression and so on will affect sexual function, but generally will not occur in this case.