Antipsychotics can effect our libido, how do you feel your libido is since starting antipsychotics? (your answer is private)
- High Libido
- Average Libido
- Low Libido
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I’ve been off APs for about 4 months now and I say mine is average, with sometimes spiking to high.
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How about an option of No libido?
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you can select low libido, that’s what I chose and I have none. I probably should have done none too.
Keep taking that fish oil. That’s how I got mine back even on aps.
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Back in June, 3 months off of APs I went to like a animal, like 2 or 3 times a day. We had to stop that because he physically couldn’t handle it. I’m 34, in the 9 years on zyprexa we had sex maybe a total of 40 times, most of the time I just forced myself thru it cause I got nothing out of it. I did it for him, because we were in our early 20’s and 30’s. Now I’m back to not wanting sex, even without meds. We do other things to let him release, he buys sex toys thinking it’ll help, but I just don’t have it in me. He thinks it’s him, but it’s not, I live him, find him sexy even after 20 years together, but I’m just depressed from physical pain. So even if I do want to, the fact that I’m gonna be in physical pain for a week after, I just feel guilty. He’s 36, it’s not fair to him. I told him if he found someone on the side I wouldn’t object, but he told me he can’t do that, we’re in this together.
Maybe once I get out of physical pain it’ll pick back up, but till I can get into pain management in 6 months, gotta suffer.
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Oh I’m sorry to hear all of that. It must be very hard on you. He sounds wonderful about it though,
I’m in pain too, arthritis. However I’m sixty years old. I’m hoping physical therapy will help.
I was always ultra horny. Now I’m 49 and not in a relationship I just do the old solo thing every now and then. When younger that was at least once a day.
Do you know it’s nice to have some freedom from earthly desires and I think my mental health is over all better still. Age does give you some benefits and I think that is natures way at least for me anyways.
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I had severe arthritis in my neck, hips, and lower pelvic bone/back. It’s severe, it started at 18 with that pregnancy. Plus I have relex sympathetic dystrophy since 11, my entire right leg up to back. I walk with a cane, I’ll be 35 in Feb. It’s ■■■■, the arthritis they say is only gonna get worse, no meds have stopped the spread, and tramadol and tizanadine for the RSD isn’t ■■■■ after being on percocet for 8 years. They just yanked that away in 2008. So yeah, hurts. Plus my pelvis was broken with my second child’s birth, so it sits crooked. They MRI was fun to look at, the orthopedic surgeon was like have you been to war or what. Like yeah, 3 kids in 4 years, and shitty health.
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It was high before. Non-existent on a regular dose of AP. Now average on a very low dose, or i suspect it is…i have physical lust but im too frightened of sex to really try anything in practice.
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mine comes and goes I think its the same as before
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I masturbate every few days. It doesn’t give me that much pleasure. Plus I have retrograde erections. I remember when I went off antipsychotics. Orgasms were spontaneous and lasted up to 10 mins for a male! Now I feel a little pleasure and a little to no libido. APs are the culprit. I have read that APs are given to nymphomaniacs and chronic masturbators, so no wonder they are toxic.
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Mine was very low before APs. Literally non existent on APs
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I am so sorry. I live with a degenerative disease and it destroyed my libido. I think having a healthy sex life is important, so I wonder if I will be able to maintain that if I ever find a husband.
It’s something that I’ve been thinking about.
I have a low libido.
It’s been so for a couple of years.
Before that it was average.
I am on ap for the last 10 years.
I am 45 male virgin from India.
Can you imagine that?
Dad wants me to get married but being jobless I am not able to
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