• Getting Your Groove Back: Navigating MS & Sexual Dysfunction

  • Jul 19 2024
  • Length: 31 mins
  • Podcast

Getting Your Groove Back: Navigating MS & Sexual Dysfunction

  • Summary

  • MS-related Sexual Dysfunction is a medical issue that should be taken seriously. If MS is impacting your sex life, you are not alone and it is not your fault. From symptoms to solutions, we're talking about how MS can mess with your mojo and what you can do to keep MS out of the bedroom.

    Highlights

    • Show Open (00:00)
    • MS, the Brain & Your Mojo (00:29)
    • Impact of MS on Sexual Function (02:42)
    • Taboo Topic (04:37)
    • Primary Symptoms & Possible Remedies (07:04)
    • Stigma, Dan Savage & Sue Johanson (11:18)
    • Figuring Out What Works for You (14:55)
    • Secondary Symptoms (15:59)
    • Managing Your Secondary Symptoms (19:20)
    • Tertiary MS Symptoms (21:51)
    • Insecurities, Sacrifice & Understanding (23:39)
    • How Partners Can Help (25:22)
    • Season 2 Closing Remarks (30:27)

    Links:

    How To Hack Your Sex Life When MS Messes With Your Mojo

    Testosterone and Remyelination: Does it work?

    About Ardra Shephard & Tripping On Air

    Tripping on Air is a monthly video podcast that brings Ardra Shephard's part-confessional, part-informational blog Tripping on Air to the podcast airwaves! Ardra and co-host Alex Hajjar discuss what it's like to live with MS, from the best products for those with chronic illness, to successfully navigating a disability benefits claim.

    Ardra Shephard is a writer, consultant, and speaker, whose award-winning blog Tripping On Air, enjoys an international reach and reputation.

    Ardra is the creator and host of AMI-tv's lifestyle series Fashion Dis. Ardra has a regular column with BezzyMS (Ask Ardra Anything), and is a reporter with LivedHealth where she leads informative and educational conversations with leading MS specialists.

    Ardra is on a mission to change minds about what it means to live with chronic illness and to have disability positively reflected as part of a diverse society. Accessible bars in Toronto would also be nice.

    Follow Ardra on Twitter: @tripping_onair and Instagram: @ms_trippingonair

    About Alex Hajjar

    Alex Hajjar is the host, producer, and creative overthinker behind Social Animals, a podcast about friendship.

    A civil engineering technologist by trade, Alex is also a punk-rock bass guitarist whose hobbies include world travel, hanging with his cat Nacho, and figuring out how to find chill about his beautiful wife Nicole's MS diagnosis.

    Get More "Tripping On Air"

    The Tripping on Air podcast airs monthly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit www.ami.ca/Tripping-On-Air.

    And be sure to visit Ardra's website & blog: https://trippingonair.com/

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