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Good morning guys, let's continue with yesterday's π story.
This is my own experience, if you have similar problems, please visit your urologist.
We left things with me suddenly being unable to have full erections or ejaculate at the beginning of February.
This got me a little worried, so I texted my former urologist and told him what was happening, he told me to do some lab work. As I told Glenn in my reply to his comment on yesterday's post, my former urologist had been treating my low testosterone with Avodart (dutasteride) for several months. He told me it was an estrogen regulator, and that it would also help with my hair (due to side effects from arthritis meds, I had serious hair loss issues from 2017 to 2022). Being Spanish, I obeyed the doctor and did not question him.
But when I started having all these problems after Beefdip, something clicked in my head. I needed a second opinion. My previous urologist's text response after the lab results was very vague, so I googled another specialist. I made an appointment and brought the same labs.
This new urologist took only 5 minutes to tell me that I should start taking testosterone shots every 3 months (something I had asked the other doctor about almost 9 months before). I had a bad experience with testosterone (in pills) back in the early 2000's and friends told me they had bad experiences with the patches and such, so I asked him if it was safe. He told me that these new shots were sort of mini-doses that would trigger the mechanism that should be producing it in my body, that I shouldn't worry, but that we'd have a review in a month. I also had to stop taking Avodart (TBH I had already stopped a week before after the vague answer from the other doctor) and start taking Invictus 5mg (Tadafil) every morning, which would help with the blood flow to my penis.
In just one week I saw results, my erection came back and my libido also started to recover (it had been gone for a while). But I was still unable to ejaculate more than a drop. Which was a problem because I needed to do sperm lab studies just in case. I told the doctor and he told me to be patient. We had discussed that the ejaculation problem could very well have a psychological component to it. So I took that into therapy. Not a huge result there, but it made me realize that I was in a lot of tension. So my next step was to try yoga and meditation again. So I set up a yoga and breathing session with someone I know here who's also a therapist and specializes in sexual dysfunction and it was amazing. After two and a half hours I left that place with the little chronic pain in my pelvic area gone, feeling much more centered and relaxed (for your information we only did breathing exercises, I was clothed, nothing out of the ordinary happened there π ). That moment gave me a reference point for how I should feel, and I have used that memory as a kind of compass ever since. These days, whenever I feel overwhelmed, I light a candle and do my breathing exercises. Breathe in through the nose, exhale slowly through the mouth, 5 to 10 times, eyes closed, and try to clear my mind (counting down from 5 to 1 in your mind while you breathe helps).
And the next day I was able to have sex and I came, not like a fountain, but a little more than a drop. And ever since then it's been a slow but steady road to recovery. I got my revision after the first month, everything went well and I was able to masturbate again (not as much as before) and I'm finding that place in my mind where I can just relax and enjoy the pleasure.
Because in the end (in my case) most of what was preventing me from having sex or being able to finish was that I was in my head, there were too many people there. I just needed to breathe and get back to the basics. I still haven't been able to do the sperm studies, but that's because the last two times I was more focused on enjoying the moment than getting a hold of a vase π¦π€ͺ.
And we will talk about hair loss in another post.
Please go to your doctor, don't self-medicate, and if you don't like what the doctor says, get a second opinion. Advocate for yourself.
I'm sure I've left out a lot of details in trying to be concise, but please, if there's anything you'd like to know, ask away.
Happy Tuesday πβ€οΈ