Severe drop in testosterone
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3 things...outside source of extra test being put into your body that suddenly stopped. 2) you have a tumor or cancer where it interups the cycle or messages being sent from gland to another.. like the thalamus or hypothalamus to the pituitary. 3) your body's perceiving severe pain over a prolonged period of time.... The pain can be either physical mental or emotional for example severe stress is a form of pain and one of the side effects would be lower testosterone. Just my $.02
How do you know about this severe drop? Have you been tested? If so, what does your doctor say about it?
yes I had my testosterone checked last week. I am so tired of not being able to cum. I'm all messed up and can't figure out whats going on. I have an appt with urology doc end of August if I don't go nuts before then.
Be sure to have your doctor check the level of prolactin in your blood. Prolactin is the hormone that makes pregnant women lactate. Males don't have any use for prolactin, so a high level might indicate a prolactinoma, which is a benign, non-cancerous tumor near the pituitary gland. High prolactin causes very low testosterone. An MRI will confirm it.
Normal prolactin level for a male is 2 - 22 ng/ml. Prolactinoma is controlled by medication, so no need to flip out about it. And yes, I'm talking from experience. Good luck to you! Message me if you need more info.
Normal prolactin level for a male is 2 - 22 ng/ml. Prolactinoma is controlled by medication, so no need to flip out about it. And yes, I'm talking from experience. Good luck to you! Message me if you need more info.
Thank you for your response to my post! I feel like I am about to go nuts because I cannot cum and cannot keep an erection very long. Normal love making for my wife and I is an hour to and hour and half on a very good day. I feel so messed up. My doctor did order some blood work on testosterone last week and it was 150. I take an antidepressant and the dosage was cut in half 3 weeks ago. I haven't been right sexuality in going on 2- 3 months. I appreciate any further info you might be able to give. I will certainly point this out about the prolactin.
Glad I could help a little bit. When I was diagnosed with a prolactinoma in July 2014 my prolactin level was 2,464 (astonishingly high). Normal is 2 - 22 as I mentioned. My testosterone level cratered at 57 (normal is 250 - 850). With it went my sex drive.
Toward the end of last year I was put on testosterone replacement therapy (Androgel). When my testosterone was measured last March it was 750! I feel fantastic, tons of energy, and everything south of the belly button is working just fine again (in fact even better than before). I've lost 25 pounds, the inches from my waist, and my gym workouts have been great!
Now my problem is excessive horniness and thinking about sex all the time. It's really distracting, but in a good way. I told my doctor, now I know why 18 year old guys are such douchebags, all that testosterone makes you nuts! ☺
Toward the end of last year I was put on testosterone replacement therapy (Androgel). When my testosterone was measured last March it was 750! I feel fantastic, tons of energy, and everything south of the belly button is working just fine again (in fact even better than before). I've lost 25 pounds, the inches from my waist, and my gym workouts have been great!
Now my problem is excessive horniness and thinking about sex all the time. It's really distracting, but in a good way. I told my doctor, now I know why 18 year old guys are such douchebags, all that testosterone makes you nuts! ☺
2-3 months ago I was horny as hell all the time. I could not get enough sex. A normal make out in the sack was a hour to an hour and half. I have been married to my wife for 31 years and love her dearly. We have a relationship that I never dreamed possible. I feel like I am so messed up physically. I have been on an antidepressant for 2 -3 years generic wellburtrion was on 300 mg daily timed release. Never had a problem taking this drug. I got so depressed a number of weeks ago my doctor added Brintellix 10 mg. I felt like I was sinking further and further into a well. I am 62 yrs old but in great health but could stand to lose a few pounds. Loosing any weight seems impossible. I was on the wellbutrin and brintellix for several weeks when all the sudden I could not climax during sex. Went back to the doctor and doc said felt sure I was over the threshold and lowered my wellbutrin to 150 from 300 daily and brintellix to 5 mg from 10 mg. It has been 3 weeks and my ability to climax has not increased. I havn't had an orgasm in 2 months and I feel like I am going nuts. They tested my testosterone was 150. do you have any idea how long it takes to correct this low t? My wife is a nurse and she gives me testosterone injections every two weeks. The doctor called me last week after the test and told me to start taking them every week and I have an appt with a urologist August 25th. I think I will go nuts if I can't cum between now and aug 25th. You know the longer you go without the crazier you get! I guess I was hoping this low t thing could be corrected in a week or two but I have no idea how long it takes to correct. If you have any further info I would appreciate. Thanks for the info. It really does help to talk to someone who's been there!
I hope you have a really good reason for taking antidepressants.
As for Brintellix, "The most commonly reported side effects were difficulties in sexual desire, sexual performance, sexual satisfaction, and nausea."
http://www.drugs.com/sfx/brintellix-side-effects.html
As for Brintellix, "The most commonly reported side effects were difficulties in sexual desire, sexual performance, sexual satisfaction, and nausea."
http://www.drugs.com/sfx/brintellix-side-effects.html
Ill just add this here. I was on wellbutrin many years ago for depression after my parents passed away. I too after a few weeks could not cum. Desire was there,erection was there but no matter what I could not orgasm. I stopped taking it and all went back to normal. I believe the term was inorgasmia or something close to that. Anti depressants can have some bad sexual side effects.
wellbutrin can actually have some pro-sex side effects in some people, and has been reported as perhaps having the fewest negative such effects generally. So you have in effect swapped a relatively good one in this respect for a worse one, even if taking half the dose of wellbutrin now. I think testosterone tends to make people feel more positive, so maybe the doc felt that was pushing in the right direction anyway, but otherwise this is getting to be taking one medicine to counteract the side effects of another. In general, hormone levels affect mood. I dont know if there are any studies which correlate high testosterone with low depression and vice versa, because that is what I would expect. I did see a dotor arguing that birth control pills were the best antidepressant for women because they stabilise mood swings as the hormones cycle. Perhaps not exactly helpful advice for men, but the same principle is likely to apply with different hormones.
