@Rb26dett Please friend NEVER listen to anyone.
We RISK really hurting ourselves.
To hear an Indian BASTARD, I made my situation far worse. Fuck him and vitamin d. Try nothing and pay attention to these IDIOTS, you risk really hurting yourself, especially for severe cases like us.
Well, first his DHEA-s is way too low for his age (I assume heâs relatively young) to begin with and DHEA has an inverse relationship with Cortisol so they need to be properly balanced. Secondly, trying low dose DHEA (~5mg) shouldnât be a problem and may infact raise Testosterone.
I had PFS for years and I tried everything under the sun including low dose DHEA. Like him, my DHEA-s was too low and taking DHEA for sometime did raise mine to be borderline normal.
And for items like you that then worsen our condition. He is a friend of mine and I donât want it to get worse. If you want to experiment, do it yourself. Also in your story you say you crashed with 5000U of VitD. No matter what dose, high-low the risk of getting worse is high. @axolotl gree with me?
Increasing testosterone/DHT can make us worse.
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i just cant cope with that any longer. but i try to help other people as good as i can. im not selfish anymore since i have pfs. pfs made me a better person but i dont know why âŚ
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and i dont know why i write this crap. we really need a self-help group
I think that before starting to take new substances, I will rely on a good doctor who may recognize this cursed condition. Then if things get worse, then I will try low dosage of SSRIs. If it gets worse, then Iâll pull the plug.
@Rb26dett I just started Clomipramine which is an SNRI, first pill yesterday I felt awful, today not as bad but still felt down, it can take up to 4 months to work while your building up the dosage, so I wonât know if itâll help or not for a while.
Youâre taking a substance which they literally gave to rats to make them have pssd⌠great idea
@arkaeik I canât remember the post but pretty sure @Dubya_B linked something before that stated it was safe or at least didnât do the same thing as other serotonin based antidepressants?
Edit: " So, I figured if this effect on DHT was the culprit, then imipramine shouldnât cause PSSD. It also âmayâ be a safer alternative to SSRIs for people with this post-drug syndrome who are desperately in need of an antidepressant. A consideration if one is insistent upon taking an antidepressant and bupropion doesnât work well for them." - Dubya
I understand Dubya said âmayâ be safer so by no means do I hold him accountable for anything that happens if something goes wrong, just wanted to try it myself since my psychiatrist recommended it for my OCD, so it seemed like the best choice since zyban (bupropion) was an awful experience for me and I wasnât really getting any better with talk therapy, I did over 100 sessions which im grateful for but they can only do so much if the brains not working correctly in the first place.
Iâd recommend thoroughly researching a drug before taking it⌠too often a drug is referred to as safe when in fact it is very dangerous. As you can see in this study, clomipramine causes significantly reduced sexual behaviour in male rats. There are cases of severe pssd from clomipramine.
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Of course if you would like to take this risk in exchange for a possible improvement in depression then you could try⌠however I myself would not dare
In my life i took Paroxetine for almost 6 years. I never had sexual disfunction. 5htp (research told is safer) totally fu**ed my life up in just 9 daysâŚ
Sertraline is the only thing Iâve taken and it gave also gave me genital numbness. Along with complete loss of libido and ED. I will never take another psychiatric drug.
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Yeah man, sertraline is a horrible drug, my mum took it and it caused her skin to heal extremely slowly, she felt awful taking it, wouldnât advise anyone to ever try it, horrible drug in my opinion.
I read about a story of a guy that recovered from 7 years of PSSD with low dose of Sertraline
I know another story of recovery from pssd with low dose of Paroxetine
Friend, remember what I told you.
The risk is not worth it candle.