Re: Need a little help with lowering my libido
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:19 pm
A few years ago I had to work my way thru a number of medications for hypertension. One of the made orgasm/ejaculation nearly impossible resulting in a lot of frustration - libido was fine - worse than an itch that you can't scratch in my opinion.
Another med reduced but did not eliminate my libido. It seemed to reduce my testosterone though the docs weren't sure why. As other men have mentioned, my wife's libido is much lower than mine and for a time we were well matched. I did not notice the loss of libido - what I eventually noticed was the lack of frustration and eventually I expressed that it was like not being hungry. For other reasons we moved on to other medications and finally found stuff that worked well. My libido returned - in some ways I missed the lack of hunger.
As a result of that experience I did speak with my doctors about doing something on a longer term basis. I was pleased that my primary care physician (she) was receptive and referred me to some others at the hospital. We had some good discussions and they felt the safest course of action was surgical castration with small amounts of supplements. They explained that removal of the scrotum might be tough to justify but wasn't out of the question. I like to shave and an empty sack might be tougher than a smooth area.
That's where we left the discussion. I am not sure what they could or would do for me had I wanted to proceed with surgery. I can tell you that if I did not have that prior experience with libido reduction that I'd never had considered actually deliberately reducing my libido.
Another med reduced but did not eliminate my libido. It seemed to reduce my testosterone though the docs weren't sure why. As other men have mentioned, my wife's libido is much lower than mine and for a time we were well matched. I did not notice the loss of libido - what I eventually noticed was the lack of frustration and eventually I expressed that it was like not being hungry. For other reasons we moved on to other medications and finally found stuff that worked well. My libido returned - in some ways I missed the lack of hunger.
As a result of that experience I did speak with my doctors about doing something on a longer term basis. I was pleased that my primary care physician (she) was receptive and referred me to some others at the hospital. We had some good discussions and they felt the safest course of action was surgical castration with small amounts of supplements. They explained that removal of the scrotum might be tough to justify but wasn't out of the question. I like to shave and an empty sack might be tougher than a smooth area.
That's where we left the discussion. I am not sure what they could or would do for me had I wanted to proceed with surgery. I can tell you that if I did not have that prior experience with libido reduction that I'd never had considered actually deliberately reducing my libido.
