You can read my profile on Ozeph: my story
And my thread on Amino Acids for Sexual Symptoms
I don’t think taking just a few aminos will restore it all. Sex is at the core of our being. we are a community of cells, living in an organised manner. Most of our cells are the descendants of the first cells that made up our body when we were kids. A cell will be born, live, reproduce and die and we won’t feel anything. But we are constantly renewed. Sex and reproduction is the path to immortality for this community of cell. (but not for us as individuals). It is so important that it supersede individual survival in many cases. It’s very complex and is affected by a whole lot of different things in our brain, hormones, chemistry, even our guts.
So to fix it, you must take a complete, overall approach in my opinion. I don’t think that the aminos described in Amino Acids for Sexual Symptoms can do the work all by itself. I think diet, exercise, extra protein, extra aminos for the brain and all I’m doing contributes to fix the whole body, including the sexual aspect. The idea is to give the body all the construction blocks it needs in abundance, be it aminos, minerals or vitamins; eliminate what intoxicate it and to exercise to accelerate the body’s metabolism and construct new cells.
But to answer the question, I didn’t have much sexual symptoms. My sex drive went down, but not completely. I could be satisfied with sex once a week (instead of minimum once a day as before, although 2 or 3 times a day was what I needed). It became harder to have erections and I could lose them more easily. But a little stimulation by my wife and I would get back in the game. I had lower sensitivity. It must have happened 4-5 times where I just could not finish. And my balls have been hurting for almost 2 years, since before I crashed.
At some point after my crash I ended up with zero sex drive. but not for long. I also don’t think I had night erections and because I never had zero sex drive in my life, but was exasperated by too much of it, it never came to my mind to masturbate to see if I could have an erection.
All of this changed when I started the diet. The sexual symptoms improved a bit. Then I started protein shake. It got better. Then I started the individual amino acids, it got even better, and finally I started looking for aminos specifically for sexual symptoms.
Now sex drive is once every two days and getting better, erections are not a problem. I get hard when we undress for sex ! Sensitivity has increased but is not normal yet. Although after taking fin for 20 years, what do I compare it to ? When I was 21 and would come after having sex with a girl 3 minutes, or 5 years ago when I could come in 5 if I wanted or last 20 minutes if my wife was taking more time to finish. (I’m a gentleman, I let her come first.)
My balls are still hurting but it’s decreasing.
Altogether, I’m at 90% normal regarding sex. I still have more sex drive than my 34 year old wife.
Insomnia was the first symptom to appear 5 years ago, and it’s the most persistent one. But I’m going to beat it eventually. I’ll find a way.