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Excellent blog Michelle! I will happily share my story. I am your typical-overwhelmed married women. I have been married very happily for 17 wonderful years. I'm 44 years old. Over the last several years I had noticed that my libido was really down. My husband always seems to want to have sex much more than I do, which I'm pretty sure is fairly normal. I had brought this up earlier with my prior ob-gyn for the last few years but she always said it 's most likely a result of leading a busy life. I just took her my doctors advice on this for several years. There was never any discussion about other potential causes or a suggestion to have my hormones checked. Looking back I'm pretty sure the reason for lack of discussion about getting my hormones checked was this would cost the insurance company money to do the tests and the doctor may be dinged for what the insurance company would deem unnecessary tests. Three months ago I decided to go to a different OB-GYN who had been recommended and got my hormones checked. The wonderful thing is Dr. Mauer who did a complete hormone evalution for me took almost 30 minutes with me to discuss and educate me on what could effect my libido. He was wonderful. My hormones came back normal which has allowed me to now focus on other areas to improve my libido. The best part is my husband and I have had more discussion about how to improve our sex life.