Need help with Lexapro induced ED, any advice?

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wow. your situation is even worse then mine. i dont get random erections or morning erections but i fap like 5 times a day minimum. i dont get strong erections but i still have the urge
Lol you don't even have ED, it legit sounds like you're fine

Just not fapping for 2 weeks will solve any of your issues
 

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Yeah cold turkey is too tough. Even gradually it's difficult
Cold turkey can be dangerous. A friend of mine committed suicide after stopping medication abruptly. He became very unwell (insomnia, anger issues, psychosis), but refused to restart the medication. It was his psychiatrist who had advised him to stop cold turkey - something I will never understand.
 

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Lol you don't even have ED, it legit sounds like you're fine

Just not fapping for 2 weeks will solve any of your issues
dont think so. fapping much is usual for me. when i was a teenager i fapped maybe 20 times a day. im not joking. and i got the hardest erections ever. i got an erection from only seeing a female. any female i saw i got instant sexual thoughts about her. nowdays its gone. like my mind cant even initiate those thoughts. i cant imagine anymore. i use to have really vivid imagination and was also very good at drawings. but the medications killed my imagination and my sexual function. i think they are linked. dopamine is needed for healthy libido. this is how it is
 

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Cold turkey can be dangerous. A friend of mine committed suicide after stopping medication abruptly. He became very unwell (insomnia, anger issues, psychosis), but refused to restart the medication. It was his psychiatrist who had advised him to stop cold turkey - something I will never understand.
Crazy

I could have tapered more slowly for sure but truthfully I just wanted to be done with it already, I still tapered more slowly than my psychiatrist and GD advised which was wild to me lol

My symptoms aren't as severe as those your friend (RIP) had so I think I'll be okay
 

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dont think so. fapping much is usual for me. when i was a teenager i fapped maybe 20 times a day. im not joking. and i got the hardest erections ever. i got an erection from only seeing a female. any female i saw i got instant sexual thoughts about her. nowdays its gone. like my mind cant even initiate those thoughts. i cant imagine anymore. i use to have really vivid imagination and was also very good at drawings. but the medications killed my imagination and my sexual function. i think they are linked. dopamine is needed for healthy libido. this is how it is
Maybe it has some effect but you are still capable of having sex

I'm not
 

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You said you have a lot of belly fat, maybe that's the source of your problems
that wont explain the lack of imagination i have now compared to what i used to have before. my imagination was vivid. i could lay down close my eyes and just imagine everything i want. it was something else. i also felt really vivid and alive full of excitment. and i also had really sharp memory which i dont right now. you know why a mental instution is worse then prison? in prisons they lock you phisically. in a mental ward the prison bars are first inside your mind. i know you probably cant imagine what i feel. but just think for a second. imagine your brain was empty and you couldent visualize anything. thats how i feel. its the blockade of dopamine in my brain. my dopamine receptors were damaged my those drugs compleatly
 

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Crazy

I could have tapered more slowly for sure but truthfully I just wanted to be done with it already, I still tapered more slowly than my psychiatrist and GD advised which was wild to me lol

My symptoms aren't as severe as those your friend (RIP) had so I think I'll be okay
Yes I’m sure you will be fine. It’s different with antipsychotic medication. My friend suffered from very bad sleep deprivation, lost an unhealthy amount of weight in a couple of months time, became very angry. He would be friendly one moment, and then ten minutes later call me to scream at me that he hated me. He didn’t want to go back on the medication because he was so happy with the weight loss and the fact that his senses were no longer so dull.
Unfortunately antipsychotic drugs cause a lot of weight gain.
It is possible to stop them, but only if you taper off and are under good medical supervision. I know someone who managed to do it.
 

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Yes I’m sure you will be fine. It’s different with antipsychotic medication. My friend suffered from very bad sleep deprivation, lost an unhealthy amount of weight in a couple of months time, became very angry. He would be friendly one moment, and then ten minutes later call me to scream at me that he hated me. He didn’t want to go back on the medication because he was so happy with the weight loss and the fact that his senses were no longer so dull.
Unfortunately antipsychotic drugs cause a lot of weight gain.
It is possible to stop them, but only if you taper off and are under good medical supervision. I know someone who managed to do it.
most scamtyatrist wont agree to a patient tapering off them
 

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When I did a hormonal panel a few months ago my results were excellent


God I hope my girlfriend can understand and bear with me through it

She always has those moments where she feels insecure and asks if I'm attracted to her
It's not from typical hormonal activity, it's due to SERT down regulation from long term agonism of the transporter, either a SERT promoter or DA agonist may help you.
 

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it will return. don't feel too anxious; nothing kills the mood like anxiety. obviously to have good sex beyond a certain point you shouldn't be thinking at all just experiencing; stress takes you out of it

I had the same issue four times. first time when I came off steroids, second time when I came off SSRIs, the third time when I came off finasteride, fourth time when I was on painkillers. every time I recovered without issues. you're still young, your endocrine system is robust. it's just a waiting game and a matter of getting used to your new reality

don't take anything yet. let your body try to reach its old equilibrium before you start throwing new things into the mix
 
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I quit Lexapro 4 days ago

Right now my situation is like this

- can only get an erection when I'm with gf
- it only lasts some seconds
- very little to no sensitivity on my dick
- can't achieve an orgasm

Also have nausea, diarrhea, brain fog, weird emotions or lack of emotions, vivid dreams etc
Well, I currently have all the ones on your last line since I dropped prozac. It's been like 20 days and I still have symptoms. My shrink told me Prozac takes some time to get outta the body. But I'm getting better with time though (I guess).
 

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Hopefully your situation is improving @justinbieberscombover

Strange one of my friends takes Setraline (SSRI) as he's in a high stress 6 figure job, says it makes him feel like superman lol. No sexual side effects either
Do you know how long he's been taking it?

Apparently my depression started crawling back cuz Lexapro started losing its effectiveness after 6 months or so, it wasn't just libido, it affected every other field of my life and I wasn't aware until I got off the meds and it got way worse (thank God for that wake up call)

In reality I should have probably upped my dose or switched meds but my psychiatrist was a dick so I couldn't communicate with him

I dropped my old psychiatrist and got on Brintellix (an atypical SSRI that's known to have less sexual side effects) a week ago, every day is a battle, I constantly feel better and then worse

After seeking a new psychiatrist for days (most of them are scammers) I found a reliable one who said he knows how to work with an impaired libido, gonna see him next week hopefully, he told me to keep taking Brintellix for now.
 

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No because I still do all types of other sh*t, lick on her neck, suck on her breasts, squeeze her butt, finger her and go down on her.. works well enough but she feels bad because she wants me to orgasm too

I heard some guys who got ED from meds become completely asexual and don't even wanna kiss and hug a woman, luckily I'm not there

My brain still wants me to do sexual sh*t with a woman even though I'm not physically stimulated much
Sucking on white nipples. Fuarkkkk based. You should lick and suck on her feet and toes as well
 
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