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Positive sexual effects for men? (And other people with dicks)
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Ok so, I just started on lexapro 48 hours ago after putting it off for weeks. I was terrified of fucking with my brain chemistry, blah blah blah. The first 48 hours have been a mixed bag, with some unpleasant feelings of tiredness, headaches, and my body temp being a little haywire (not a new thing for me but something that happens often so possibly even unrelated). Warning: now I’m going to talk about my dick, so if you’d rather not know, turn back now.

But here’s the thing— part of the reason I started this is because for most of my adult life I’ve had pretty serious performance anxiety. It’s gone in waves and I was able to do a lot with mindfulness and learning more about my anxiety responses and triggers but it wasn’t going away entirely and I wanted to try and kick it out along with all my other anxiety issues. I know that some people experience low libido and other sexual side effects on this drug but that there’s also a possibility it could help me. Before this, it was often tough for me to get hard and stay hard when I was with a partner, and I’ve never understood how some guys are just popping boners constantly in any situation. My dick doesn’t pop up unwanted generally and requires manual stimulus to get hard.

So, I’ve taken now 2 doses of lexapro and like, my dick just gets hard on it’s own now? And doesn’t need me to paw at it constantly to stay hard? I was watching Netflix this morning (not a sexy program) and I felt my dick stirring and so I mentally just let it happen and like, there it was, fully boned without any help from my hand and it just stayed that way for like 15 minutes, just from thinking about it and focusing my energy on it. I know I could have made it go down at any point so it wasn’t medically dangerous (I’ve heard some SSRIs cause priapism) but I wanted to see how long I could maintain it for. Eventually I decided to end the experiment and focused my attention back on the tv show and it went down. A similar thing happened yesterday afternoon but this is now a pattern.

Guys, this is huge for me. This is something I’ve basically never experienced. I was so self conscious of my sluggish sexual response for most of my life, it hasn’t been active like this since I was a teenager. And I was worried that the negative side effects of the drug could outweigh any potential benefit or boost to my confidence that came with it. I know it’s early but it appears that it’s already helping. Obviously serotonin is involved in the sexual response and so I’m just thinking, maybe an imbalance of serotonin was keeping my sexual response suppressed the whole time.

Has anyone else experienced positive changes like this after starting lexapro?? This obviously isn’t something they tell you at the doctor and there has probably never been a study on it. But I thought some folks here might be willing to share.

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