u/Candid_Confusion7492

I 20 F have been with my boyfriend for about 5 years, and until about the past year we were very sexually active. However over the past 2 years my sex drive has plummeted, I can go months without having sex and I’ll be completely fine. However, this hasn’t felt great for my boyfriend. He would never pressure me into anything, but I can tell it’s bothering him. I just cannot get my self into the mood when he’s around. It’s not that I can’t get aroused, because I can, and I can take care of it myself when he not around, but when the time comes for us doing something together, I just can’t. And when we do I find myself dissociating for the most part.

I don’t watch porn so it’s not anything like that. I’m scared that it means maybe i’m just not attracted to him in that way anymore. Has anyone experienced this or have any advice?

I’m a 19F, 5’7, 130 pounds, and I use to smoke socially but I don’t anymore. No medications as of right now and no medical issues that really relate.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been to the doctor for multiple reasons, however since the past month I’ve been experiencing extreme knee pain in my left knee, this pain has persisted for years on and off ever since I was around 13 (however the pain has never been this severe). When I was around 14 I finally went to my pcp and she just told me It’s probably just a torn tendon so she sent me to physical therapy, It never helped. I went back a few times for other reasons and mentioned the pain as well as my family’s history of CPPD, (Dad, Grandpa) She told me if it is some kind of arthritis there’s nothing she can do and that I should just take some ibuprofen. The pain isn’t the only problem though, I don’t really have full mobility around that area, the mobility issues aren’t too bad, I can run, mostly jump ect, but it’s not totally consistent and sometimes I have to walk with a limp because it feels like I can’t straight my knee, and every night I have to sleep with it slightly bent because it just won’t stay straight, I couldn’t even lock it if I wanted to. With this and the pain progressing to the point where I have periods where it feels like someone’s taking a sledge hammer to my knee, I don’t know what to do. I don’t even know how to ask at this point because it feels like I’m not taken seriously because i’m young. Any advice would help.