Need Help With Erectile Dysfunction And More

[Sexuallyblessed]

I don't mean to be a dick, but none of this will work.

I quit my job, sleep as long as I want, eat a very healthy diet, take every "sexual" and "hormonal" vitamin and herb that have studied values and abstain from masturbation for up to 7 days. None of this works.

Stress shouldn't kill your sexual ability unless you are a soldier in Iraq, and even then... it's unlikely.

Hope over fear.

Every person is different, and different things work for different people.

 

[Sexuallyblessed]

Another thing I have noticed is that stress/fear/anxiety literally sucks the blood right out of my penis rapidly. To give an example, if I am naked at home and warm and seated my flaccid penis is large. If I stand up and walk around but remain warm it is medium size. If I get cold, stressed, ill, nervous, or worry about something, it shrivels up. I see it happen before my own eyes. If I am in a locker room, my penis is always significantly smaller then when I am naked at home due to "nerves". Same deal with a partner. My erectile function when relaxed, warm, and comfortable, and not stressed is often excellent, however it becomes impaired in the same way as does my flaccid penis is any of the instances mentioned above (cold, nervous, afraid, worried). I am not exactly sure which hormone my brain is releasing excessively into my blood to cause both shrinkage and erectile dysfunction but I know it is there. Its probably adrenaline and cortisol in excess.

 

[Vash1986]

You are the same as I used to be. I did dozens of experiments.

At first I thought that because I had compulsive eating and low sexual desire I could have a dopamine shortage. So I tried wellbutrin, an antidepressant drug that lets more dopamine and norepinephrine circulate in the body.

Well, I got some more libido but it knocked me off because my anxiety already made me produce too much epinephrine. Had to stop it after two days. Couldn't even go up stairs without getting tired.

Then I thought that I had venous leakage and started using Levitra. But I soon discovered that sometimes I was uninterested while having sex with my girlfriend with Levitra: so it was a libido problem, not an erection problem.

Then I started thinking I could have adrenal fatigue. I passed hours looking at my eyes to see signs for aldosterone deficiency, did a ACTH and cortisol test, measured pressure when lying down and standing up.

And much more... For months I always thought there was something wrong in my body. I thought I caught signs here and there, did strange experiments, tortured my mind about dopamine, fatigue, erectile disfunction, excess estrogen, varicocele and so on.

Then I tried getting high dose Valerian. Everything started to get better: good sleep quality, good libido, energy. But that was not the solution... it just has the opposite effect if you use too much too long, and I got worse.

I understood that it's not from the outside that I had to kill my anxiety, but from the inside. Took me months to defeat it. When I discovered how my pelvic muscles twitched in response to anxiety, I learned to recognise anxiety whenever it was coming, and almost defeated it.

I was so anxious that when I did my first testosterone shots I was afraid that they could not be entirely absorbed because the liquid could pop out of the muscle and go into the fat or even worse get out of the scar. And whenever I got no libido I thought something went wrong with the testosterone absorption and started doing bad thoughts, like... "oh no, now I will loose muscle", or "I have to do a blood test now, no matter what it costs!!".

James23 says none of that will work because probably his testosterone/libido problem was not related to anxiety. If your problem depends from anxiety, you will get much better.

But still, an HPTA restart could be useful. By restart I actually mean using meds like tamoxifen, simply relaxing and avoiding masturbation won't help. It could help libido, but not T levels. And anyway, you can also do medical tests to be sure there is no adrenal fatigue, venous leakage and other stuff.

It's important to start doing something concrete and stop the continous thinking. The brain gets very tired from excessive thinking, perhaps you don't even have adrenal fatigue. I bet that you pass many hours a day thinking about what is wrong, and analyzing each symptom and traveling with your mind in many different directions almost obsessively, trying to find out all possible causes and relations. Am I right?

 

[Sexuallyblessed]

Thanks for the response vash. I have had anxiety problems my entire life, and became aware of my ED problems around 18 years of age. For the longest time I hid from the issue by just playing video games and pretending it didnt exist. Then I discovered ways to enhance my sexual response by lowering the frequency of my ejaculations to 1-3 times per week, and waiting until I am sleepy or dozy. These solutions were extremely effective and made the idea that I had ED leave me. That is until I tried to have sex with a real girl, and had complete ED. My friend gave me a viagra, and many of my friends with no erectile problems were using these PDE5 inhibitors for sex. I finally gave in (was very anti drug) and started using them. They enabled me to have sex and lose my virginity at age 25.

Unfortunately, although these drugs allowed me to have sex, I could not really enjoy it. This is largely due to my overactive sympathetic nervous system suppressing dopamine. While I had an erection, it was very difficult to reach orgasm and the pleasure was minimal. I also noticed I had cyclical ED and did not know what the cause was. I now believe that these cycles are hormone/neurotransmitter fluctuations related to an overactive sympathetic nervous system. I now realize that my anxiety and intense exercise regimen was simply adding to the problem of having an overactive SNS.

I have suffered from this my entire life, knowingly from age 18-30. I have just recently begun analyzing the problem in painstaking detail because for the first time in my life I have a girl friend (long distance) who is understanding, and I have decided against using any PDE5 inhibitors because I feel that they are a band aid which does not solve the underlying issue. And so here I am, and I will do everything in my power to understand what is wrong with me, and what I can do to fix it.

In the last few weeks I have made leaps and bounds in figuring out the problem. I now know that there may be several minor issues but the major outstanding issue is an overactive sympathetic nervous system.

 

[Sexuallyblessed]

Everything is starting to make sense: the culprit is an overactive sympathetic nervous system.

Symptoms associated with MVP Syndrome/Dysautonomia

 

[Vash1986]

Of course, your nervous system is overactive. But it's important for you to understand that the overactive N.S. is not disease by itself, it's just caused by your personality.