I think for some of us it’s elevated BP that’s the limiting factor. Not sure if with time it fixes itself.
I did not write ED. I wrote “mood”. When I’m stressed out, I can get an erection but I don’t want one, I don’t want sex then, I want a place to chill out for a minute and maybe then I can think of sex.
Still, I don’t know what your mission is in this thread, but it’s not only known that stress can cause ED, it’s that many people experience this and already told you. I for example in the past worked myself into the ground, my body was done. Believe me, I couldn’t have gotten an erection to save my life. A few months and a lot of recovery later, the “ED” was gone.
It makes evolutionary sense to avoid procreating in such times. If you ever got scared while banging, for example because someone broke into your home, you’d get flaccid fast.
Proper functioning of the penis depends on a complex interplay of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. You need the sympathetic nervous system for sex but the parasympathetic NS is crucial for orgasm. If you send the sympathetic NS into overdrive (stress, scare, harsh diet) sex can be impossible or orgasm can be impossible.
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Ok I understand, but then there are guys sitting there in the same position. You will actually cheer them up by offering them hookers. I am not only talking about ED, I am talking about libido and sex drive. Their “mood” is to f the living ish out of the hookers while their life is in complete shambles.
I said I am aware of transient stress induced missing libido and ED. On here though its apparently in everyone’s head even when people clearly say “after I started TRT my libido went missing” maybe it won’t apply to this thread but it’s not just in people’s heads all the time.
Fair enough with that one, but usually when people mention “stress” they mean purely psychological. You also now brought up erections, so let’s set the technicalities of language aside between libido/mood/ED, overall point no erections for sex.
What’s the longest you went without wanking it if you weren’t getting laid? How long did you fight the urge to “release”.
I agree somewhat, but I don’t think stress kills libido all that much.
Well the side is the lack of libido that occurs when i increase dose.,
I used to notice this a LOT when i would get wasted years back. ALWAYS horny after a night out and a blazing hangover.
I hypothesized it was either extra estrogen with hops… (unlikely) OR, my body is overcompensating with dopamine release due to hangover.
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Not saying this is what it is or not but if we go by the proposed androgen overload then theoretically that will happen at first, even worse, as you will have a bigger deficit of E2 and will need time for it to catch up.
Just saying, not sure I believe in that, but the proposition would make sense that at first you may even feel worse until E2 catches up and saturates.
So youre saying that as I just increased the dose a little a few weeks back, my test is higher and the E2 just needs to catch up a bit? Makes sense in some ways. I am leaving dose at 48mg EOD for a bit and i’ll see if libido comes back at all.
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Libido is test and e2 and ratio, no damn stress will make u a useless limp cock for years ffs
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Idiotic to think these are the only three factors. There’s atherosclerosis-induced ED. There’s depression-induced ED. There’s medication-induced ED (beta blockers for example). There are other factors that play a role.
Maybe you can ask yourself a question: HOW do test and estradiol influence erectile function? Once you find out the pathways, you’ll know that they are not at all only regulated by testosterone and/or estradiol.
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What about this?
Mostly made up nonsense, depression ed, stress ed, not enough carrots ed lmfao.
For some funny reason all depressed emotionally unstable stressed-who-the-hell-am-i-undereating teenagers have zero probs.
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Remaining in a stressful state long term can cause permanent DNA changes in the brain, some people get there faster, what you got away with early on will catch up to you later.
This.
Although stress can be a factor it’s not the cause, especially if you’re dealing with long term ed
I have my pop-corn always ready when I read such threads when I get some free time. FWIW my libido and erections were always there even when I was drinking heavily, taking drugs in massive amounts, when I was a kid, when I was stressed af when feds knocked on the door and wanted to put me away for a long time, etc, etc. Never fucking lost none of it. Later in life on test it was there, on deca it was there as well. During the bad and the good times it was always there. I was always a very active as a kid and growing up. Did sports as much as I could and started going lifting with the older dudes at the age of 16 or so. Never was overweight, always looked athletic and was very strong. Not sure it’s all related or not but think worth pointing out. Anyway since growing up in the hood having not much but big hearts we always joked and had mad fantasies regarding girls so all it took me is a thought or two and it was on. Now 20+ years later everything still very much in tact and takes minimum to get rock hard. I’m on 75-80mg of test-e per week FWIW. Also, at least for me, smoking strong/good weed helps tremendously, I think someone here also mentioned it. One time in the last years when I had some problems with the downside department was when I got too lean and spent too much time there and tanked my hormones. Was natural at that time FWIW. Undereating for me is def on the list that effects it. But since we all different and unique so you know.
P.s. Stress is my second name all my life, won’t get into it but trust me, and still it hasn’t killed my libido nor given me ED as of yet (tfu, tfu, tfu - spits 3 times). Some days are better some days are bit worse and thats OK as such is LIFE. Like PIANO keys WHITE and BLACK. For the perfect melody we need both.
Just my 2 cents.
Have a cracking day ya’ll!
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I think I mentioned this in another thread as well. If you are in a nut house on hella medication with saliva pouring out your mouth disconnected from reality then I get it, but we aren’t just “sad” 24/7 when we have a stressful or anxious phase.
No matter how much stress or anxiety I go through, there are days I am a completely different person looking forward to enjoying a whole day off of mountain biking and watching sports, taking a trip to an island for the weekend. Like I am there I am in the reality of it all smiling and laughing remembering how great life is in the grand scheme of things. Libido and sex should be no different. Like what I am so “sad” I can’t have any libido what’s so ever again but I can wake up and plan an exciting trip for the weekend? Simply put I am still happy enough to be alive and find plenty of joy in some aspects of life, libido shouldn’t be some weird exception.
Edit: I would say the most dangerous thing to libido is apathy, complete shut down of emotions in where you can’t even feel sad anymore. That angle I would understand in where you no longer got the will to live. You don’t find joy OR sadness in anything.
Yes, IMO all this stress, vitamines, not enough sleep shit just makes it more confusing and complicated than it really is. Ppl with fukkd hormones starting to think they need to do more meditation or find their life purpose to get inner peace and a boner.
While in reality, its just their damn testo, estro, prolactin and progesterone levels/balance. Find it and whoaaa suddenly in the mood even tho the neighbors rat-pet died last weekend!
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This is not the first time I have heard of a correlation between weed smokers and great libido/erectile function. I also have a friend who smokes often and can attest to the above. Just a case of smoking weed activating the parasympathetic nervous system and making one more relaxed perhaps?
Alright Roy. Better go tell the hoards of men already on proper TRT complaining about their sex drive or ED that it must be the test, because as a teenager they didn’t have ED.
Easy algo here for you:
Man has ED → check hormones
→ hormones fine → must be something else
→ hormones out of whack → fix hormones
→ ED gone
→ ED still there → must be something else
Teenagers not only have raging hormones but also changing brains compared with highly sensitive neurotransmitter levels and receptors. This all changes after puberty.
The discussion level here seems to have gone down the shitter if these are the responses here. Either solely anecdotal, not logical arguments or non fitting examples.
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Define “proper trt” , if their libido is shit its not proper trt at all. If they found their individual hormonal balance it wouldnt matter if their boss was mad that day or they didnt eat vitamine c supplements all week, the strenght of the sex drive, governed by optimal hormones would override all that shit.
Sex is very very fundamental, just as hunger and thirst. Doesnt matter if a man is sad or not, he still wants his water, his food and yes, also to reproduce, given his hormones and brain chemistry is “correct”.