Morning Wood

I'm 33 years old and my testosterone level is at about 484 ng/dl.

I do not get morning wood when I wake up. When I sleep, I notice while sleeping that I have nocturnal erections.

Is it bad that I wake up and have no morning wood? Is this a testosterone issue?

I do take Viibryd (40mg) and Wellbutrin, but am seeing an alternative treatment psychiatrist to tapper off the medication.

 

I am not in a relationship. I am in the process of slowly tapering off - currently going from 40mg to 35mg.

 

Thank you - I think a lot of what I have is an anxiety issue - OCD so to speak.

How old are you if you don't mind me asking?

 

I'll take your advice. My concern to be honest is a mix of time of addiction and age. I'm 33. At 22 I felt that type of sexual energy you have. Either because of my addiction and/or my medication I don't feel that now. But I'm keeping on the path.

I am in some social leagues to go out and socialize - that was a huge burden I had with the pandemic because I live alone. I'll keep going with all of this though. Thanks much for your support.

Ironically, I also see an addiction therapist and a psychiatrist. I told my psyhchiatrist that I fear this would be permanent based on a post I saw here. She told me that unless you have a stroke or surgery - the brain is highly plastic and changes itself everyday. That helps me. She tends to think I am giving habits to myself I don't have - i.e. the PIED anxiety.

Next thing for me is physical exercise - I was at home working - and still do so being mobile isn't a frequent thing. I have a goal of working legs twice per week and the rest of my body with heavy lifting and HIIT. I want to get back into the shape I was in during my 20s, which isn't much because I'm not really out of shape - the medicine and staying home added weight to my mid section - but my testosterone isn't optimal - 484ng/dl. That's another worrier for me.

 

14? I'm an over thinker and asking because of that. Who are you?

 

Can you elaborate on an increase in ED while tapering off?

 

I appreciate that. Part of what I'm having difficulty with is determining if all of this is due to PMO or just low libido in general? Make sense? I don't know...

 

So show all forms of connection with real women - period.

 

@WildEntheology - It's interesting how the brain works. I don't know WHAT it is - nocturnal erections are a thing for me in REM sleep. Morning woods out of bed? No longer a things since my 20s. But maybe its more of loss of libido because of the medicine. A side effect is definitely there, but the thought I had experienced was:

1. I'll never be able to perform well in bed.
2. If that happens the woman wont stay with me.
3. If she doesn't stay with me I can't form a meaningful relationship, thus being alone.
4. Being alone I won't have a family and will be alone forever.

The part you pointed out about pleasing her may be a key factor here. When I was 18 - while my body was more full of hormones for sex than now, I didnt even worry once about ED, even though I also had not M'ed or O'ed but did look at porn (but not as crazy as today's).