Do antihypertensives affect sexual life?
Antihypertensives and Sexual life
This is a very common question that jumps to the brain once anyone male or female realizes that he or she is hypertensive and suffers from significantly high blood pressure.
Hypertension definitely affects sexual life. As the main erectile dysfunctions in males are derived from hypertension. High blood pressure decreases blood flow to the penis thus leads to erectile dysfunction. Many people think that this high blood pressure can’t affect female sexual life or has mild action on that but the truth is hypertension severely affects female sexual life as well as Male’s sex. Many studies approved that hypertensive females have got difficulties during intercourse results from low amount of secreted lubricating fluid and this leads to difficulty reaching orgasm.
Antihypertensives have got siginificant effect on sexual life. You can find diuretics or beta blockers to decrease blood flow to sex organs (in male and female) leading to bad sex. While other medicines like ACE inhibitors like Captopril, Quinapril, Fosinopril and Trandolapril (marketed as Capoten, Accupril, Monopril and Tarka) and Angiotension 2 receptor blockers like Losartan, Candesartan and Irbesartan (marketed as Cozaar, Atacand and Avapro) enhance sexual life. Also Calcium channel blockers can be used to treat hypertension without affecting sexual life like Verapamil and Amlodipin (marketed as Isopten and Norvasc)
