Posted by infectedmushrooms on August 11, 2007, at 16:45:11
In reply to Re: Permanent Male Sexual Dysfunction after Remero » Girlnterrupted78, posted by Quintal on August 11, 2007, at 15:17:43
I myself have tried selegiline/ENSAm to try to reverse the problem as well as wellbutrin but they actually made me worse although wellbutrin slightly enhance orgasm but did not improve impotence...The problem is you have to know what the receptors the original drug targets and also what amino acids where depleted and the neurotoxicity of the drug in one's system...His immune system could have been weak to begin with from stress or vitamin deficiencies when he took the drug which made his receptors more sensitive...I find the only thing that is starting to give me some libido back are whey protein...liver supporting supplements...immune enahcing supplements like acidophilus and vitamins...adaptogens and specific smart drugs need to be tried as well for NGF as well as longer periods of abstinence from sexual activity...I am currently on Piracetam and may try to hit another cholinergenic to get things jump started...There is a board I belong to where people lost their sex drives from over-masturbation and drugs as well...http://recover.forumup.org/
You might want to point him in that direction....I don't believe depression is the cause of his sex based on my own experience...I know I was horny and the drugs took that away from me and I expected to be my old horny self once I was off them... I do believe attitude is the most important thing in healing...I am depressed but that never took away my sex drive before until I took drugs...Teens are depressed all the time and they don't lose their sex drives either...When your at an age where your hormones are supposed to be high depression won't effect your drive too much which supports why it is the drugs that did this.....But going to doctors and specialists is probably the worst route...So is over researching and thinking its hopeless...No one knows how these drugs work in the brain they have ideas and no one can say this or that is permanent...Cell destruction can be permanent with chronic use of meth or cocaine even risperdal and other neuroleptics...Thats why people with parkinson's lose their sex drive and they become hypersexual
on their l-dopa drugs b/c it has to do with neurotransmitters...The effects of those drugs where off after time due to further liver toxicity and further ultrasensitization of dopamine which leads to desensitization of dopamine neurons or the destruction of them and you start out with 40,000 and don't lose any until you reach the age of 40 unless you take a neuroleptic you lose a whole bunch...That's why people that take neuroleptics too long become impotent themselves and leads to TD b/c of neurotransmitter and liver malfunction as well as parkinsons which TD essentially is in drug-induced format...
The drug he took may not have been a neuroleptic but anything altering neurotransission in the brain can change gene expression and that too can be reversed through change of attitude and other ways...The body is remarkable in its abiliy to heal when everything is still intact...I mean he didn't lose a limb or became paralyzed...I think he will recover 100% once he learns to settle down accept the situation as it is and try his best to get his drive back....
You can say it is depression that did this but the way the post was written I can really relate...the drug definitely f*ked up his drive...It is up to him ultimately to get it back with trial and error...Everyone responds differently and can be more or less sensitive to certain drugs...I was ultra sensitive to risperdal which is why I lost my sex drive on it even after almost 2 years off it..I have spent countless hours researching and believe I may know how to fix this...Like I said in the previous post being as stress free as possible, diet, exercise, and time and specific smart drugs and supplements will probably allow him to recover 100% it is just a matter of the will of the individual...
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