I feel like an eunuch and despair!

April 8, 2008

I have had depression from age of 16. My sex drive was low during

depression but my erectile function was fine and I used to get morning

erections and although I wasn't hugely into sex, I could quite easily

get off.

The real problems started when I took Lexapro. Shortly after my

testicles felt shrivelled and morning erections stopped. When I tried

masturbating I found it impossible to orgasm. I did some tests and it

was shown that my prolactin had risen. I was concerned as was my

doctor so I went off the drug and my prolactin came back down. But

since then things have never been the same.

I used Viagra for a time regularly when I was in a relationship and

this helped things and even when I was off it I found I was sometimes

getting aroused when I was around girls, and some sensitivity had

returned.

Then I tried reboxetine because I believed the hype that it had no

sexual side effects and was feeling blue. With reboxetine I found it

difficult to urinate, ejaculationss felt like I had been shot in the

penis, and again felt the loss of sensitivity, much more so than on

Lexapro. My penis felt kind of raw to touch.

I started taking Viagra and I'm not sure if it is connected but I took

a dose but wasn't able to have sex that night because the girl I was

with started having sexual thoughts. So I had terrible blue balls and

since then my right testicle has been feeling very very heavy and

swollen. I saw the doctor and he said it was epidymitis but i don't

believe him and the antibiotics he made me take aren't helping.

I cannot take this any more. I am a good looking guy but I have no sex

drive at all and girls even accuse me of being gay because I never

seem turned on by them. If we ever get to the bedroom I have to take

Viagra but can only perform once a night which leaves the girl

unsatisfied and the sex with viagra just feels mechanical.

Life has so few pleasures for me as someone who is chronically

depressed. But to rob me of the pleasure of sex and the associated

intimacy just seems too cruel!

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