Hey, med student here. We had a paraplegic who volunteered to answer some questions for my class. This is what he told us and was confirmed by a spinal cord injury physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor:
Him and his girlfriend still have sex but she usually does most of the work. He needed to use Viagra to get an erection.
Also not certain what sort of sensory losses you have, but he lost feeling about half way down his abdomen. So sex became more of a mental pleasure than a pleasurable feeling. Although, in some people with sensory lose the region between feeling and not feeling can actually become a pleasure zone.
Not sure how applicable this is to you, but hopefully some of it is helpful. If you have any more questions I highly i courage you to talk to your PM and R doc. Although it may seem embarrassing, they probably have already heard the question from someone else.
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Hey, med student here. We had a paraplegic who volunteered to answer some questions for my class. This is what he told us and was confirmed by a spinal cord injury physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor:
Him and his girlfriend still have sex but she usually does most of the work. He needed to use Viagra to get an erection.
Also not certain what sort of sensory losses you have, but he lost feeling about half way down his abdomen. So sex became more of a mental pleasure than a pleasurable feeling. Although, in some people with sensory lose the region between feeling and not feeling can actually become a pleasure zone.
Not sure how applicable this is to you, but hopefully some of it is helpful. If you have any more questions I highly i courage you to talk to your PM and R doc. Although it may seem embarrassing, they probably have already heard the question from someone else.
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