Posted by FalconNJ on February 16, 2004, at 16:48:19
Dear Doc,
Im hoping you can help me here. I'm a 33 year old man with panic disorder which is under control to an extent but I have no sex drive at all. It started 3 years ago when my panic attacks became worse while I was on 150 mg of serzone a day. I went through a bad breakup and the serzone just stopped working so my doc put me on paxil.well that was the last time I saw my sex drive. I let it go for a few months since it did stop my anxiety but then I wanted to feel a bit more normal. I asked to switch to another med. if possible. I went form paxil to zoloft to efexor then back to serzone but no change. over the course if the next year nothing seemed to work. I decided then to have my testosterone levels checked. they were 340 which I and my doctor felt was low for someone of my age. The doc then gave me some injectable testosterone 200 mg/ml. well it made everything worse I was more depressed and had an even lower sex drive. Then I went to see an endocrinologist that doctor gave me a test. gel. I had the same reaction. We checked my levels after using it for a a week and they were 600. Yet still I had no sex drive. Well, then they thought I might have a pituitary tumor so I was given a cat scan and I was tested for all kinds of things from HIV to testicular cancer. You can imagine the affect this all had on my anxiety. Yet all tests came back negative. I decided to stop all medications and see what happens. I went off all ssri's and testosterone. I was off everything for 9 months hoping the sex drive would return but it didn't. Now im at a loss im a healthy 33 yo 5 9 165 lbs. man with no desire to really have sex. this is causing even more problems in my daily life and in my relationships. I would love to know why the testosterone had such a negative effect on me if that's what I'm lacking or if it was ssri induced sexual dysfunction why when I went off did it not come back? Please help there has to be some way to fix this mess before im too old to even have sex. I just now started on Lexapro it seems to be helping with the anxeity but again no desire to have sex. Again, please help.
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