It’s not a stupid thread, we don’t really address how much PFS affects our daily lives very often outwith maybe member stories.
I eat, sleep and hang out on PH.
No, but I definitely have had to forsake most of what I used to do for fun. Although that said I have been this way for well over three years now and things have improved a lot since years one and two. The first few months off I was crippled by despair and too busy seeing my life unravel to do much. Year two was stlll pretty bad but over the last year to eighteen months I have started to take more of an interest in things which I have always enjoyed.
That said having PFS prevents me doing so much. I can’t exercise save for going long walks because of muscle loss and joint pain, although I was never a gym rat like a lot of guys here. Similarly I can’t do late nights out anymore, it isn’t that long since I got my sleep under control and I still don’t feel that great in the mornings. Combined with being not very happy with my new appearance I don’t do night clubs or concerts anymore whereas before that was a big part of my fun. Similarly, it goes without saying almost, I don’t go on dates. This is again as much due to the physical and mental sides as the sexual ones, were it just ED/libido issues I would probably try and get an asexual gf. Regrettably I have also lost friends over this although I do still socialise with others.
Similarly I have lost a lot of my desire to listen to music, read books, watch films or TV etc although again these have all improved a lot as the black hole of deep despair wore off. But when you still have mental sides like loss of creativity and motivation as well as memory and comprehension issues it seems to be difficult to be excited by anything. I also think, for me anyway, that having this disease makes you feel somewhat disconnected from normal society so I probably have more difficulty relating to films and fiction.
That said I do take a lot more interest in the world now than two or three years ago, travel a bit, watch a lot of sport (reverting to a pre-adolescent state lol). I also still do a lot of the things mentioned above albeit with less enthusiasm and passion than I used to. But at least I can take my mind off PFS a lot more now, as much as you can do when your body is never far from reminding you of it.