Extra horny while not on menopause

I’ll preface this by saying that I always suspected that I have some issue hormone wise. But please let me know if this is just high sex drive.

I had someone ask me this before so I’ll just add the info: I do not have PCOS (doctor checked), I am not overweight (petite and physically active), I am not depressed (have a therapist). My horniness periods do not seem to have any logical time frame with my menstrual cycle. Without any form of hormonal birth control I feel mentally healthy and normal.

I’m around mid 20’s, when I was a teen I developed this very high sex drive for periods at a time and would masturbate 3-4x a day (each time reaching for multiple orgasms up to 4 times). My hair started getting greasy fast, then I had cystic painful acne etc, fast forward started taking birth control and while it did stop the greasiness and acne it killed my sex drive and made me feel horrible mentally.

I felt paranoid, emotionally unstable and just shitty altogether. I took that for a few years because I was in a relationship, but when I finally quit (maybe 10 months now) I could feel the shift, my hair started getting oily faster (could go 3 days no wash now I have to wash every single day), skin oilier again (I’m on tretinoin so I can’t check that so much), my emotional vulnerability went away but now I am horny yet again. Before that I went through a normal/low sex drive period. I am so used to this shift that I can sense it coming.

I went to gynecologists through the years, it was hard at first since I was moving from one country to another, but basically I was told that “women experience hormones differently” and that was it. One kept shifting me from one pill to another and that really sucked.

Is this really normal? I spend a few months with my scalp looking fine and being “ok” sex drive wise, but I get to some random time when I need to wash my scalp every single day and my mind is filthy checking guys out constantly. When I’m in the horny period I try my best to keep my porn usage strictly under control (since I don’t want to get addicted).

I saw a comment about how women in my country might have higher testosterone than usual, is this possible...? Could cultural diet really influence sex drive that much? When I moved away I was not having my usual diet, still horny though. Sorry about this massive text.

Submitted July 31, 2019 at 11:45PM

I’ll preface this by saying that I always suspected that I have some issue hormone wise. But please let me know if this is just high sex drive.I had someone ask me this before so I’ll just add the info: I do not have PCOS (doctor checked), I am not overweight (petite and physically active), I am not depressed (have a therapist). My horniness periods do not seem to have any logical time frame with my menstrual cycle. Without any form of hormonal birth control I feel mentally healthy and normal.I’m around mid 20’s, when I was a teen I developed this very high sex drive for periods at a time and would masturbate 3-4x a day (each time reaching for multiple orgasms up to 4 times). My hair started getting greasy fast, then I had cystic painful acne etc, fast forward started taking birth control and while it did stop the greasiness and acne it killed my sex drive and made me feel horrible mentally.I felt paranoid, emotionally unstable and just shitty altogether. I took that for a few years because I was in a relationship, but when I finally quit (maybe 10 months now) I could feel the shift, my hair started getting oily faster (could go 3 days no wash now I have to wash every single day), skin oilier again (I’m on tretinoin so I can’t check that so much), my emotional vulnerability went away but now I am horny yet again. Before that I went through a normal/low sex drive period. I am so used to this shift that I can sense it coming.I went to gynecologists through the years, it was hard at first since I was moving from one country to another, but basically I was told that “women experience hormones differently” and that was it. One kept shifting me from one pill to another and that really sucked.Is this really normal? I spend a few months with my scalp looking fine and being “ok” sex drive wise, but I get to some random time when I need to wash my scalp every single day and my mind is filthy checking guys out constantly. When I’m in the horny period I try my best to keep my porn usage strictly under control (since I don’t want to get addicted).I saw a comment about how women in my country might have higher testosterone than usual, is this possible...? Could cultural diet really influence sex drive that much? When I moved away I was not having my usual diet, still horny though. Sorry about this massive text.