Why is it, even with the ridiculously low test levels that I typically have (still waitin' for the doc...) that I'm capable of getting an erection and even getting into it? I typically have very low sex drive, but don't really have a problem once I get started. I guess it's almost similar to how a woman is. Could this possibly be related to estrogen/progesterone? Or am I way off base here?
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- Thread starter Glaim
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I can only speck for my self. I have been on TRT for over 16 yrs have had low T for over 21 yrs. When I fist came down with this they could not find out what was wrong with me and I was so sick I could not make it to work. So they tell me I am Depressed and put me not drugs that killed my sex drive. Hell one pill for Depression made me have a high sex drive but the drug would not let me reach an orgasm. I went through this for 5 yrs. never felt any better but worse. I found out I was suffering from Low T when I was put on Prozac this drug slowed my voiding to the point that I got a bad bladder infection and had to see an Urologist this Dr. checked me out and told me he feels I am not depressed but have low T. I feel that the AD drugs I was on for 5 yrs. did in my sex life is was never the same after that. I was on every AD that was on the market. These Dr.'s for Depression in my mind are nuts.
When I started on TRT I was 45 and little by little my sex life got better until I hit 50 then I lost it all I had bad ED and could not reach an orgasm. I found out 11 yrs later it was high E2 Estradiol doing this to me. I got my E2 down and my ED got 80% better I could now have sex with my wife and reach an orgasm. But is was not as hard as it should be so my Dr. gave me Cialis 20 mg. I take it every 72 hrs and can have sex anytime I want no need to wait for a pill to work. My libido went up higher and higher the longer I kept my E2 in check. I am 61 now and lifer is good. Hope this helps.
Phil
When I started on TRT I was 45 and little by little my sex life got better until I hit 50 then I lost it all I had bad ED and could not reach an orgasm. I found out 11 yrs later it was high E2 Estradiol doing this to me. I got my E2 down and my ED got 80% better I could now have sex with my wife and reach an orgasm. But is was not as hard as it should be so my Dr. gave me Cialis 20 mg. I take it every 72 hrs and can have sex anytime I want no need to wait for a pill to work. My libido went up higher and higher the longer I kept my E2 in check. I am 61 now and lifer is good. Hope this helps.
Phil
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Wow, I can really relate to your story did the depression go away after you finally stabilized your hormones? For years I have been blaming my aas use for my lack of libido but now that I think of it ssri's may have taken their toll as well.
I know two years of paxil @ 60mg a day changed me forever, and not in a good way. The withdraws were an extra treat, I would say on par with kicking a nasty crack habit (not that I would know about that but damn they were rough). Yes I should have tapered the dose but I woke up one day and realized two years had gone by and said never again.
I was never depressed I had low t and yes when I got my levels up the feelings went away. Here is a link to a group of guys most with low T that is about there loss of sex drive from SSRI meds.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ssrisex/
How long have you been off Paxil that one is to me the worst. I feel the SSRI drugs made my low T worse but I can't prove it.
Phil
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ssrisex/
How long have you been off Paxil that one is to me the worst. I feel the SSRI drugs made my low T worse but I can't prove it.
Phil
I think that low test, at least for me and others, takes away the desire but not the ability. To use an analogy, if you're really tired and it's late, you might not feel like getting in your car and driving to the Dairy Queen, but if someone sets an Oreo Blizzard down in front of you and hands you a spoon, well that's a different story...Glaim said:
bigmark
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At least 5-6 years now, but I was HEAVY into aas after I stopped they helped pull me out of the hole. Paxil is the devil I HATED the way it made me feel sort of like, I'll just lie around and wait to die, not much concern over anything at all just waiting to die. Thats the best way I could describe it.
I was not depressed anymore, I was dead or in a coma for lack of a better description.
Earthdog that is how I felt but even more extreme, work, sleep, work sleep, repeat till dead, no thanks. I would have rather died than continue living like that.
I had worked out most of my life despite having problems with depression since puberty, a bad divorce destroyed me and had me bedridden for months before turned into a zombie by paxil I did not care at the time because I was so tired of the pain.
To this day I credit AAS for saving my life, I used the pain of my divorce to fuel my workouts/research, while it did not cure my depression it got much better. Today I use wellbutrin and I have no negative effects with that. My estrogen is and I believe has been extremely high for a very long time I am hoping this is part of the puzzle.
