Gordon: Adjusting to multiple medicines – Impact on personal relationships
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Gordon
Male
Age at interview: 73
Number of medicines: 13
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Gordon finds that his medication has had an unwanted and negative impact on his libido and sexual performance.
Gordon:
Sex life. I've been married four times and I've always, up until 12 months ago, I had a reasonably good sex life, right? That's stopped. Dead. Nothing. And it's the pills that are doing it. That would be the only other … I know my age has got a lot to do with it but when you've got people of 86 and 90 still enjoying their trips around the bed, that's … it's not the end of the world thing situation. It's just something that I thought I'd tell you. Yeah.
Jacqueline:
Is that something you've talked about with your doctor?
Gordon:
Not yet. The reason I haven't is because the Duotan … the one I take, Duotan, it tells you that your ejaculation system won't be the same. It will go straight into your bloodstream and you won't have any effect … you won't know anything about it. It will happen while you're asleep and things like that. Okay, that doesn't worry me. I mean, I'm not in a relationship with a lady at present. I could be but I'm not. I don't press to be, you know? But that's the only thing.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.