Decreased Libido?

[Kailex]

So, I hate to post this here, and I tried finding a topic SIMILAR to this, but unfortunately my case seems a bit... weird, even for me.

Over the past weekend, I noticed I have a decreased libido.
Ever since I started losing weight again in the past months, it actually seemed to increase. I was feeling confident about myself and have been doing great with the ladies. But since August, it seems I've been having too much sex.

I know it sounds like I am bragging, but I'm really not.
Losing the weight increased my confidence by far and obviously seems to have made me more attractive to women, but this past weekend, it was just... GONE. I was with someone and had a hard time staying aroused. It was as if my mind was saying "Yeehaw" and my body was saying "I don't think so".

It's a huge blow to my confidence because this has never happened to me.

For the last two days, I've felt just "empty". No desire whatsoever.
It's as if I hit an "over-sex quota" and now my body is shutdown.

I've been reading on ways to increase libido and have read up on stuff like eating celery, taking Zinc and L-Argentine, but is doing all of these things overkill?

I can't figure out WHAT has changed over the last few weeks other than over-exerting myself and the fact that now I take B-Complex. Could it be B-Complex? Could it be that I've overworked myself? Could it be that I am now over-thinking the situation? I feel like I am FORCING myself now to get sexually aroused.

I know none of you are doctors, but I figured some of you must have SOME experience. I'm going to take a week off from any sexual intercourse (I do feel some soreness in my groin area), and see what else it could be. I want to use the options of "foods" that'll help, but I don't want to overdo it either.

Comments, suggestions, questions, opinions are more than welcome.

This really is a tough thing for me to post about and I am really hoping it's temporary. Thank you for your time.

 

[Fuglydude]

Im' 28, and I kind of have the opposite issue... my sex drive is pretty high. Like yesterday I jerked it three times and had sex once. I usually need it 2-4 times a day to feel satiated. I can understand this when I'm on AAS, but I've been off for 7 months and currently not even taking any testosterone boosters. I can't remember the last time I went more than 2-3 days w/o blowing my load. The only time I have issues w/ low sex drive is when I'm coming off cycle.

I personally think libido is linked to your testosterone levels. If you are under stress, don't get the proper nutrients, etc then these factors will affect your body's ability to produce testosterone. You said you felt like you were overworking yourself. This is a classic reason for lower sex drive, as overtraining/too much stress will stimulate your adrenal glands to produce cortisol and other stress hormones. These will definitely decrease your sex drive. Furthermore if you're not getting adequate nutrients to support the increased exercise/physical exertion, this can also contribute.

Oh and by the way doctors don't know jack about this kinda stuff, unless they're endocrinologists, aging/performance specialists. Doctors are taught how to treat disease... not how to promote health.

Just take a week off sex/jerking it, take a good multivitamin, eat well, make sure your body is recuperating adequately and sleep. You may also wanna consider a testosterone boosting supplement like tribulus. I have a product called Anabolic Signal from CMI that I've used in the past that really boosted my libido. You can read reviews on it here:

http://www.fitflex.com/cmi-anabolic-signal-review.html

Just give it time, and don't over think the issue.

 

[Solomon]

Kailex

The last few years my libido has been up and down. When it's down it's usual because I'm not

• working out--Try jogging 2-5 miles or doing some leg work outs that will get ya going
  
• depressed(losing a job, g/f, or just being stressed out working 60 plus hours will do that too ya)
  
• Not eating right(i love fried foods, junk foods etc)

hell a few years ago I even went to a doctor, because I thought something was wrong because I felt my sex drive go sharply down, the doctors said my testosterone level was fine, even though I didn't think it was, but they say that a man's sex drive does go down after a certain age. I tried the pill and amazingly that works wonders. However you don't need to do Viagra. I tried extenze(it has tribulius) works great as well if you need a short term boost. However I don't like to rely on pills for a daily fix, ginseng tea works wonders as well.

But I think Fugly's advice is best, take care of your body, etc

 

[Kailex]

What worries me is that my sex drive went from SUPER high to NIL in about the span of 72 hours.

- I don't drink alcohol. Haven't since July.
- I'm eating right, which is why I've been able to lose weight.
- I take fish oil and the last week or two, B-Complex as well.
- I haven't hit the gym in the last week because I been either too busy with work or going out and having some fun with lady "friends".
- I did have a LOT of stress from work though. A supposed "promotion" fell through and it was making me question a lot of what I am doing with my life between last Wednesday - Friday. (Problem started on Saturday)
- I'm avoiding any activity that's sexually-related for the next week and just focusing on the gym and myself.
- I haven't really had a chance to just relax and take some time for myself.
- Had some monetary stress lately which I usually don't stress about it, but I guess it latched onto my work-related stress.
- Haven't gotten good enough sleep lately. At most on Sat - Sun for 7 hours, but any other day, at most 5 hours.



I'm going to get some Zinc (I don't take Multivitamins).
I'm hitting the gym tonight and getting some good sleep.
I guess I need to stop thinking about it so much and just take it easy for a few days.

Just worried for a while since my sex drive went from an all-time high to an all-time low.

 

[5string]

May I suggest you get your testosterone checked? I had this same issue and that's what it was. The doc put me on some test gel and it returned me to my former self. Pretty simple. And that stress sh!t at work will really play games on you physically. Do what you can to manage it Kailex.

 

[Pimp-sicle]

Kaliex,

Two things jump out at me bro and they are:

1) Stress

2) low carb diet

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Stress is really the WORST thing to put your body through (emotional, mental, prolonged etc), because it increases cortisol levels throughout the body. To increase cortisol levels since your body thinks its in a life or death (fight or flight) situation your body steals pregnenolone in order to produce more cortisol. The biggest side effect to this is it literally shuts off production of your sex hormones, DHEA etc. Our bodies are still biologically the same as they have been for millions of years. Meaning when there is danger, sex is the last thing on the body's "mind." Stress has a funny way of creeping up on us and you don't really realize how much it has affected you until its built up quiet a bit.

There are plenty of ways to get your stress under control, from proper sleeping habits, hydration, eating every 3 hours to obviously eliminating the stressor completely or at least reducing it.


Secondly, any time you go low carb and it sounds like your going pretty damn low, your sex drive will suffer because carbohydrates are involved in energy and hormone production.

Taking a b-complex is fine, they help regulate mood and stress.





PIMP

 

[Kailex]

I actually forgot to update this thread. What I had was physical and not mental. I made an appointment with a specialist on Friday for Monday.

Over the weekend, I went out with someone and I plowed through the LMR of my own member and mind and had absolutely no problems with that aspect.

I actually had sex a few times and was alright. Spoke to the specialist on Monday anyway and he said that it was my body trying to tell me to just rest a few days and that having sex was actually part of the solution as long as I didn't over do it.

The mental part of it disappeared this weekend, the physical should be healing over the next week or two.

What I had was caused by 3 main reasons:

-Alcohol
-Stress
-Spicy food

3 of which I had over the course of the weekend I started feeling this "decreased libido". Almost embarassed to say, it was something related to my prostate, but I'm glad I went and got it check.

All of my equipment is just fine and in perfect working order.

 

[Colossus]

Im' 28, and I kind of have the opposite issue... my sex drive is pretty high. Like yesterday I jerked it three times and had sex once. I usually need it 2-4 times a day to feel satiated. I can understand this when I'm on AAS, but I've been off for 7 months and currently not even taking any testosterone boosters. I can't remember the last time I went more than 2-3 days w/o blowing my load. The only time I have issues w/ low sex drive is when I'm coming off cycle.

I personally think libido is linked to your testosterone levels. If you are under stress, don't get the proper nutrients, etc then these factors will affect your body's ability to produce testosterone. You said you felt like you were overworking yourself. This is a classic reason for lower sex drive, as overtraining/too much stress will stimulate your adrenal glands to produce cortisol and other stress hormones. These will definitely decrease your sex drive. Furthermore if you're not getting adequate nutrients to support the increased exercise/physical exertion, this can also contribute.

Oh and by the way doctors don't know jack about this kinda stuff, unless they're endocrinologists, aging/performance specialists. Doctors are taught how to treat disease... not how to promote health.

Just take a week off sex/jerking it, take a good multivitamin, eat well, make sure your body is recuperating adequately and sleep. You may also wanna consider a testosterone boosting supplement like tribulus. I have a product called Anabolic Signal from CMI that I've used in the past that really boosted my libido. You can read reviews on it here:

http://www.fitflex.com/cmi-anabolic-signal-review.html

Just give it time, and don't over think the issue.

I second all of this except for the tribulus. Human data do not support any of the hype---it's all placebo.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...709faaa986c2a8f05f0fc3ba5b59ea6e&searchtype=a

http://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/A..._of_Five_Weeks_of_Tribulus_Terrestris.10.aspx


The differential for erectile dysfunction is actually quite large, but with someone your age it is usually stress or alcohol/drug related....but also prostatitis or BPH.

Glad you got it cleared up!