HELP asking for my friend he’s about to give up!!
I’m a man who’s always struggled with ED (I have to take Cialis or Viagra for it to work since I was 18-now) I have bad o.c.d. all my life was really hard to function without an antidepressant. I spiral out of control and maintaining sobriety is really challenging. I’m a recovered addict. I found the antidepressants made me function mentally so well. However, the sexual side effects are making me so unhappy.
Since I already struggled with overthinking and o.c.d one of my worst ticks is a loop about my dick “am I going to get hard/stay hard” while I’m intimate and I’d lose my hard on always ect always been a destructive obsession. And made relationships almost impossible.
Initially pristiq was seem like my saviour got rid my my mental struggles made my o.c.d calm down, but overtime I felt my ticks coming back. Mine are usually body focused. Have to workout, have to eat this, have to take that supplement and over the edge with thinking I’m going to die, if I don’t take this or I’ve taken too much of that. It’s really toxic. My body feels like a doomsday is coming ect.
I’ve tired these three and they’re all supposed to have the lowest sexual side effects. This is how they affected me.
Mirtazapine(remeron) at 30mg Dick never worked 1/20 maybe. Horrible on my mental health because of this. However, I did feel good overall, it was working for my ticks. I can’t have a sexless life though- so I won’t take it again.
Pristiq(Desvenlafaxine) at 30mg Dick worked 18/20. Worked initially for my ticks (about a year) but need to up does to 45mg as I was feeling more depressed/ticks were coming back. It did work better once I upped it from 30 to 45. However, once I upped it my dick stopped working.
Wellbutrin/Zyban(Bupropion) at 75mg Got a rash couldn’t use
Might have to go back to Pristiq as I don’t know what to do and just struggle at 30mg with mental health so my dick works.
If anyone has suggestions who also needs to be on antidepressants please help me with what worked for you/what do you do? Any tricks or suggestions please.
I’ve done thousands of dollars of therapy for my ocd/you name it.
HELP