Has your baseline seen any improvment?

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Luis Fernando Lopez
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Has your baseline seen any improvment?

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I'm really starting to lose my shit here. My emotions are blunted, when I try to sob I can only produce tears can't do much else. My brain hurts when I try to cry and sometimes it hurts when I breath in. Hard to explain but it feels like a sore throat only in my brain instead of my throat. I was on 25mg Zoloft from August 20-26 2017, I noticed I had restless legs syndrome on my second or third day on Zoloft and it only got worse I cold turkeyed Zoloft on the sixth day because my penis got numb. I noticed normal function in everything starting to return in October 2017 but fast foward March 9, 2018 everything went downhill fast. Has anyone else experienced this has anyone noticed normal funtioning starting to return after you stopped taking the SSRI only to crash on a later date. It's hard to get an erection with manual stimulation let alone a psychogenic one I can sorta get an erection sometimes but it's very soft, my libido is very low and I have a decreased sensitivity in my penis and nipples. I've seen some of the stories on here and and makes me feel hopeless, do you thnk there's any hope? I have yet to see a neurologist or endocrinologist but my primary doctor has made the referral, but from what I've seen here I don't expect much to come out of it. My emotional blunting turns to anhedonia when I start to stress out, My psychiratrist and therapist think I'm experincing this because of depression alone seeing as how Zoloft is "out of my system" my psychriratrist also perscribed me Risperidone to help calm me down but the last thing I need right now is Tardive Dyskinesia. I feel alone and neglected I feel like my chance for a normal life was stripped from me. I just want to know it gets better but from what I hear it doesn't. I'm I way in over my head, can I say I have PSSD right now?
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Re: Has your baseline seen any improvment?

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No one on this forum is going to be able to tell you whether or not you definitively have PSSD. What we can say is that you are going through a time of uncertainty, and we are here for you.

I know how scary this shit is. Although I can't say for sure whether I have PSSD, I can say that I haven't felt sexual urges since September of 2016 (when I first took an SSRI), and I can assure you that it sucks. But the only thing that gives me solace is that there are people who are going through the same thing that I'm going through. People who have been fighting this shit for years and years.

I'm going to tell you what my therapist and my family tell me - you can choose to believe that you are condemned for the rest of your life, or you can choose to believe that there is hope that you will recover (this IS possible).

After dealing with this shit for over a year, I can say with certainty that this is much easier to deal with if you choose to believe in hope, and not in the idea that you're doomed.
Fluoxetine (Prozac) from August '16 to February '17. No sex drive, severe erectile dysfunction, pronounced anhedonia.
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There have been numerous people who have recovered/gotten better. The guy taking Pramipexole is still doing great. Someone made a thread today with a link to some European forums with a guy who recovered after taking a combination of Clomid + Dostinex.

I highly suggest you start by getting a full hormone panel done either from your doctor or a private lab test like one from privatemdlabs.com.

Make sure you get all the important sex hormones including:
Testosterone (free AND total)
Estradiol
Prolactin
LH+FSH
SHBG
Progesterone
Cortisol
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Some people get cured, others need a lot of treatments. BTW I think that it is early to think that you have pssd, maybe it is only a temporary problem. But if you have it, keep in mind that the first months are the worst. I have it for around 7 years and I had a lot of improvements, but sometimes it get worst and then I take my cycle again. I believe that in your case you only took it for 14 days, so your brain, liver and etc... still can heal. Try to take desmodium, zeolite or MSM to support your liver and try to recover the cyp450.
If you want make a test try to take some daily cialis with l-citrulline to see if you can get some erections.
Piracetam with choline is other good thing to try.

BRMAN
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Pep19, the recovery stories from PSSD have ranged from like 6 months to 12 years. Using the logic you just made, someone could say to you, "I stopped Paxil and got my sexual functioning back! I have no reason to believe what you say." I don't care if you believe me or not, it's the truth, my friend is almost recovered after 10 and a half months. And yeah, everyone said tardive dyskinesia was permanent, but have you seen this study? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6145520 Apparentlyyyyy once they followed the patients up with TD after years they all recovered. This is what I'm talking about. Just because you're 2.5 years out without recovering does NOT mean it's permanent lol. Saying that on the internet could literally be ending the lives of people new to PSSD.
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Also, I see Pep19 that you are taking or have taken trazadone since you have developed PSSD which is a medication that can also cause sexual problems and at least one member on here got PSSD symptoms from taking trazadone. I believe his name is trazohell.
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marybanana wrote:Pep19, the recovery stories from PSSD have ranged from like 6 months to 12 years. Using the logic you just made, someone could say to you, "I stopped Paxil and got my sexual functioning back! I have no reason to believe what you say." I don't care if you believe me or not, it's the truth, my friend is almost recovered after 10 and a half months. And yeah, everyone said tardive dyskinesia was permanent, but have you seen this study? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6145520 Apparentlyyyyy once they followed the patients up with TD after years they all recovered. This is what I'm talking about. Just because you're 2.5 years out without recovering does NOT mean it's permanent lol. Saying that on the internet could literally be ending the lives of people new to PSSD.
I wrote that I believe you, indeed, the problem if anything is for those who after years still has pssd. According to me and also stories that I read the more time passes, it is more unlikely to heal. For the record I do not take drugs Sorry my English.
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Here is some hope for all of you:

I am on 6 years now with having PSSD. It's been a rocky adventure. I was on this forum back in 2011/2012 before we had to move it here. There were times where I felt defeated and frustrated to no end, but there were also many improvements that cycled in and out. Each improvement cycle introduced a new aspect of my original function that I had lost and forgotten what it felt like. Right now (6 years later), my function is better than ever and my cycles last longer at times and I have more function now than I ever felt possible. I am optimistic this will continue to a full recovery. Don't give up hope. I was on 60mg of Celexa for 8-9 months and it took me 6 years to really see the light at the end of the tunnel. You can make it. I am on no supplements right now and I have been off my SSRI for the full 6 years.

Hang in there!
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Hi,
I developed again symptoms of PSSD also of emotional blunting...after a period of recovery (september 2017). Now I improved the emotional part and also some sexual symptoms lately :-)
Don't take candy from strangers

escitalopram drops 20 mg from 28 august - 6 september 2017
2 drops the first day increasing gradually until 6 the last day (cold turkey)
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Thank you so much apachuri!
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