Hello everyone!
My story short.
I was on Abilify 4 months and doctor wanted to try 7,5mg dose for few days. It gave me hypersexuality, huge urge to gamble and constant need to eat something sweet. I mean it was almost like taking Viagra and horny all the time. So we quickly dropped dose back to 5mg. Doctor just told me that these symptoms are really rare such a low dose. I also lost some hair when taking Abilify... and gained 12kg (26 pounds) in 1,5 month... Yes, really... I tapered over 5 weeks. When my dose was 1mg I noticed I couldn´t have any erections... I got really bad insomia too, couldn´t sleep more than 4 hours first two weeks. After that my sleep pattern improved but was sleeping max 5 hours. 8 weeks later my erections came back(!) and I got 6 hours sleep. That would have been great story... but...
... unfortunately I got panic attack 3 months later (don´t know if Abilify withdrawal was causing it) and was given Valdoxan. The doctor increased the dose after 4 days to max 50mg and I got suicidal thoughts. She thought it was psychosis and again I was forced to take Abilify 5mg... Again I was immediately little bit hypersexual. This time the drug gave me metabolic syndrome in 3 weeks(!) and the doctor tapered me off this poison. Doctor also confirmed that this was misdiagnosis... great... but not to worry cause I was only such a little time on it. Well... when we tapered to 1mg again my erections were gone. Only this time when I tried to ejaculate, there was only 2 drops of semen... and my penis is shrunken... sorry for the details...
I guess I’m really sensitive for drugs. I haven’t taken any meds before. So now I’m Not taking any meds and hoping my erection will come back. I’m really scared that this time Valdoxan and Abilify really messed my dopamine system... And the sad thing is that both time I got Abilify was misdiagnosis. Valdoxan would have been great in low dose 25mg, but 50mg gave me instantly suicidal thoughts and my liver enzymes doubled in three weeks. I really hope that my erections will come back...
Is there anyone cured PAPSD? I think it´s really rare to get permanent sexual dysfunction from Abilify but found one case on this forum:
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Would like to hear how´s Mike23 is doing?