shred81
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Hi everyone, I am a 25 year old male who stupidly took sleeping pills for over a year straight.
In a nutshell, I began taking Ambien in October of November of 2009. I took it nightly for a few months. I then decided to switch to Lunesta for whatever reason and took that for a couple of months. I realized my libido was gone. I stopped taking the Lunesta for a few nights and libido returned. A couple of days later, I unfortunately began taking ambien again and took that nightly for many months. I started to build some tolerance and switched to Lunesta again. After a few months libido again dissapeared. At this point I thought to myself its definitely the Lunesta and switched back to Ambien. Unfortunately libido didn't return. This was in August of 2010 that the libido disappeared. As crazy as it sounds, I continued taking Ambien for almost 5 months after my libido disappeared. I was totally addicted. On January 12th 2011 I totally quit sleeping pills for good. The problem is that it's now May 23rd and my libido is still not back.
For the first 24 years of my life until August 2010, I had a crazy strong libido. I was horny day and night. It was like this until I used sleeping pills nightly for awhile as I mentioned above.
Now another thing worth mentioning is that since I am old enough to remember probably 14 years old or even before then, I have had a vericocele on my left testicle. I have never had it diagnosed by a doctor, but I know I have one. It doesn't bother me. Now, I am mentioning this just to give you guys all the info I can but I can't imagine how it could be the cause of my libido problem as it was there my whole adult life and I always had a very strong libido. Nothing has changed in terms of my testicles. They haven't shrunk or changed in any way.
Also, I should mention that I am in great physical shape. I am lean and have been working out for some time now. I have built alot of muscle during this time. In the time since my libido disappeared, I have actually made improvement to my physique and have lost fat and added muscle. I have watched my body composition carefully, and it has improved.
I am just mentioning this because if something drastic has changed with me hormonally which would be enough to wipe out my libido, wouldn't I suffer other symptoms on top of the low libido.
I know benzodiazpenes and these z type sleeping pills cause libido problems. The thing is that its been 4 months since I took a sleeping pill and I am not better. I was wondering what you guys think of the situation and if any of you have suffered something similar after taking sleeping pills or benzos. I should also mention that if I see something(like a naked chick) I still get a good erection and everything downstairs works fine, it's just that my sex drive is gone. I used to fantasize all the time etc.. and think about sex all the time but now it seems like that's gone. I am not just imagining this either, something has definitely changed.
I can't that you guys enough for the help.
In a nutshell, I began taking Ambien in October of November of 2009. I took it nightly for a few months. I then decided to switch to Lunesta for whatever reason and took that for a couple of months. I realized my libido was gone. I stopped taking the Lunesta for a few nights and libido returned. A couple of days later, I unfortunately began taking ambien again and took that nightly for many months. I started to build some tolerance and switched to Lunesta again. After a few months libido again dissapeared. At this point I thought to myself its definitely the Lunesta and switched back to Ambien. Unfortunately libido didn't return. This was in August of 2010 that the libido disappeared. As crazy as it sounds, I continued taking Ambien for almost 5 months after my libido disappeared. I was totally addicted. On January 12th 2011 I totally quit sleeping pills for good. The problem is that it's now May 23rd and my libido is still not back.
For the first 24 years of my life until August 2010, I had a crazy strong libido. I was horny day and night. It was like this until I used sleeping pills nightly for awhile as I mentioned above.
Now another thing worth mentioning is that since I am old enough to remember probably 14 years old or even before then, I have had a vericocele on my left testicle. I have never had it diagnosed by a doctor, but I know I have one. It doesn't bother me. Now, I am mentioning this just to give you guys all the info I can but I can't imagine how it could be the cause of my libido problem as it was there my whole adult life and I always had a very strong libido. Nothing has changed in terms of my testicles. They haven't shrunk or changed in any way.
Also, I should mention that I am in great physical shape. I am lean and have been working out for some time now. I have built alot of muscle during this time. In the time since my libido disappeared, I have actually made improvement to my physique and have lost fat and added muscle. I have watched my body composition carefully, and it has improved.
I am just mentioning this because if something drastic has changed with me hormonally which would be enough to wipe out my libido, wouldn't I suffer other symptoms on top of the low libido.
I know benzodiazpenes and these z type sleeping pills cause libido problems. The thing is that its been 4 months since I took a sleeping pill and I am not better. I was wondering what you guys think of the situation and if any of you have suffered something similar after taking sleeping pills or benzos. I should also mention that if I see something(like a naked chick) I still get a good erection and everything downstairs works fine, it's just that my sex drive is gone. I used to fantasize all the time etc.. and think about sex all the time but now it seems like that's gone. I am not just imagining this either, something has definitely changed.
I can't that you guys enough for the help.