>>306219>Stopped working out and eating healthy, I am slowly rotting and have no more will because my situation doesn't seem like it will ever get better. If it improves, that will be in many years.It’s perfectly okay to feel this way sometimes. You don’t have to feel bad for feeling this way. However there exists no objective logical ground for you to have imposed this conclusion on yourself as a sort of certain fatalistic sentence. In my own case, I managed to (mostly, ~95%) cure my pssd within about 1.5 years of its on-set. I feel that you should be able to do the same if you remain diligent in your diet and (just as importantly) trusting in your private mind that you can be bettered and ultimately returned wholly to where you were before the ingestion of ssris.
>What do you think of TRT, reinstatement… or something else? I have been told to do keto diet. I really feel like the best thing would be to microdose shrooms, lsdI don’t think your problems are related to circulating levels of sex hormones, especially not at your age. I know after having taken ssris and encountering genital impotence and anesthesia that my own serum levels of testosterone were essentially unchanged from the year before (suggesting that the drug had not materially altered them). I cannot speak to “microdosing shrooms” as this seems near totally impertinent to the restoration of a former normal chemical balance within your brain; if anything I would imagine introducing heavy psychogenic drugs like shrooms would only further confuse an already-confused neurochemistry.
But as to what I do think might be helpful:
1. Recall that prozac being a fluoride-based ssri will particularly lower blood levels of folate (vitamin B9). In addition to everything I already recommended above in earlier posts, I would like to advise you to make sure you are getting sufficient amounts of folate into your body everyday (preferably through a well-made and well-reviewed B-complex supplement). This will combat the likely chronic folate-lowering effects of the offending drug.
“Depressed individuals often exhibit low levels of serum and red blood cell folate.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10490031/2. B1 (thiamine) is equally as curatively important as B9 in the case of a sufferer of PSSD, as without it neuronal recycling/elimination of trapped excess serotonin is impeded.
“These results suggest that acute thiamine deficiency, induced by PT, both increases brain 5-HT synthesis and impairs 5-HIAA efflux from the brain. There is a close correlation between neurological manifestations and changes in brain 5-HT metabolism in acute thiamine deficiency.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/509224/Have you been taking a well-formulated B vitamin that contains both thiamine and folate?
3. Consciously remove all sources of fluoride from your life (especially be mindful of any toothpaste tubes that may be formulated with sodium fluoride). If you find any such tubes inside your personal cleansing space, remove them.
4. Something I have not before mentioned is concentration on the introduction of nitric oxide rich foods into your daily diet. Good healthy examples of nitric oxide rich foods would be arugula and pomegranate juice. I eat/drink both myself frequently. Increasing nitric oxide levels should help alleviate the genital anesthesia you are feeling.
“Nitric oxide plays a significant role in Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), as it is involved in vasodilation and sexual arousal. SSRIs can inhibit nitric oxide synthase, leading to reduced nitric oxide availability and dysfunction in sexual function.”
“Chronic escitalopram treatment induces erectile dysfunction by decreasing nitric oxide bioavailability”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24242893/5. Do you have access to a sauna? Saunas (for instance) are a more effectual method of removing heavy metals and phthalates than even greatened daily urine output and blood donations. Simulating fevers through sauna use will help your body further gradually detox the ssri poison. Can you find a sauna in which you would be able to sweat?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3312275/ 6. Are you still taking ginger? Organic ginger?
7. Have you incorporated pumpkin (vitamin A) into your daily diet?
8. Instead of keto, have you ever considered eliminating gluten/wheat-based foods for perhaps around a month’s time? Cutting out wheat improves genital sensation even in those who don’t suffer from PSSD.
9. Do you remember when I said “Rationality is your greatest weapon in defeating this.” I still maintain this. I don’t know how old you are (nor do I need to know), but I do imagine that you are young, and one thing I can tell you is that being young causes your mind to hyper-dramatize problems, which can distort their weight out of all rational focus and proportion.
If you have a safe place to sleep at night, if you have food in your fridge, if you can walk around your house for 20 minutes without feeling any huge amounts of physical pain, if you can lay in a calm quiet spot in your house and ingather your thoughts without suffering any outside disturbances, I finally repeat: you have no reason to be entertaining the thought of suicide. Understand that curing PSSD takes a lot of time, and allowing yourself to become overwhelmed in virtue of early failures is not a smart course. Your body is healable; you must trust that.
10. The response given you by your doctor is typical of their profession. With a restrictively small number of exceptions, doctors are highly brainwashed technicians working from within a predatory and deeply corrupt jewish mafia system that masquerades as healthcare. They will not admit fault and even less surely will they grant reflective leave within their own minds to consider the revision of their own beliefs.
11. Sorry for not having written back earlier. Please let me know how you are doing. I’m here to help.