Guest guest Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 Yes...especially right after I went off Lexapro.....10 mg/day for four years. However, a year out and I am feeling much better although the libido is at only about 10%. For the past six months I have been taking 6 g of fish oil omega three pills (3 in the am and 3 in the pm), 100 mg 5-HTP ( 50 am, 50 pm), 1000 mg L-tyrosine (500 am, 500 pm), and 1000 mg L-argine (500 am, 500 pm). Today, after six months of this regimine and walking 2 to 3 miles/day....I feel much better...can get hard erections, feel emotionally less depressed...and look forward to further improvements in the future. My wife has supported me...even though there is still little sex in our lives....(she has always had a low libido...and so lack of sex has not been a major issue for her). Anyway...I am now 56 years old...and am feeling so much better than when I first came off the lex....It is hard to know whether it is the supplents or time that is healing me....but I know that continue to improve...... wrote: Other than the sexual stuff....who is emotionally numb???Loss of creativity, etc.This is the worst part. Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 emotionally numb, dead personality, no motivation, cognitively slow, slow wit, slow on my feet - cant relate too people like u use to, in some respects these symptoms are worse then my pssd Other than the sexual stuff....who is emotionally numb??? Loss of creativity, etc. This is the worst part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 We have brain damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 No we don't. -- In SSRIsex , " " wrote: > > We have brain damage. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 > > > > We have brain damage. > > > Well, I think I am worst off than most, seeing as though this started for me when I was 16 and am now 22. I was wondering if going back on the medication that screwed you up- in my case, zoloft, would help. Anyone know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hey I took my first ssri at 16 too. I think that our young age has distinguished ourselves from the other posters here, because not only were we given these harmful drugs, but we were given them at a time when are brain was still developing which in my mind translated into even more symptoms then say someone who took it in there early 20's > > > > We have brain damage. > > > Well, I think I am worst off than most, seeing as though this started for me when I was 16 and am now 22. I was wondering if going back on the medication that screwed you up- in my case, zoloft, would help. Anyone know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Brain damage, no. Hormonal damage, yes. I saw your post on feeling dead inside, plus I started when I was 16 and ended at 23, so I know how you feel. All I can suggest is read my previous posts and use that to try and pull yourself out of the hole, it's a lot of time and effort but it works. Plus, there is plenty of science behind what I have posted, I just didn't realize it until I began seeing results and started looking for the reasons why. I've come up with some theories as to what exactly the pills did to us, none which I can verify of course. I hope that someone else gets a saliva test to measure their hormone levels, especially cortisol. If I'm right, then your levels would probably be the same as mine were (they are steadily improving), meaning super high cortisol in the morning which plummets by noon (adrenal fatigue). My testosterone levels are rock-bottom, so is the precursor, luteinizing hormone. The pills affect our hormones, which the adrenal glands have lots of influence over. What it honestly feels like happened is that the pills put up an emotional net that caught everything from the last 6 years of my life. When I stopped the pills, everything in that net crashed on top of me all at once, causing incredible emotional stress. Shay mike Lynch wrote: > > Hey I took my first ssri at 16 too. I think that our young age has > distinguished ourselves from the other posters here, because not only > were we given these harmful drugs, but we were given them at a time > when are brain was still developing which in my mind translated into > even more symptoms then say someone who took it in there early 20's > > On 10/1/07, ** <@... > > wrote: > > > > > > > > We have brain damage. > > > > > > > Well, I think I am worst off than most, seeing as though this started > for me when I was 16 and am now 22. I was wondering if going back on > the medication that screwed you up- in my case, zoloft, would help. > Anyone know? > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 I became emotionally numb. although my injury's are from risperdal. but i am still emotionally tortured by the treatment of hospital staff and doctors. I am left feeling very bitter and angry, it is a pervasive trauma that haunts me every day. The sexual dysfunction is a constant reminder of the torture in many ways. As a musical artist who was once very prolific in the local area, this has been a tragedy in itself. My creativity is gone, my music was the only joy left in my life, and the medical workers have knowingly raped me of my last bit of joy. And when i meet interested women, I'm not the least bit enthusiastic about it, which is not normally the way i am. I rarely write any music since the hospital/risperdal assault. My creativity and joy of life is destroyed. It makes death a welcome mercy on my sole. > > Other than the sexual stuff....who is emotionally numb??? > > Loss of creativity, etc. > > This is the worst part. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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