Sorry if this is TMI or whatever, but I contracted covid recently and basically since the day after symptoms emerged, I basically can't get hard... I don't get morning wood, I haven't gotten even a little bit of an erection all day. It's only been a few days, but at the same time, this has never been a problem for me in my life, ever when I was sick. I am absolutely losing my mind right now, I'm still young and I shouldn't be dealing with this yet.
Did anyone else get this symptom and did it go away? I'm just freaking out man. It's destroying my mind.
Penis owner here. This has happened to me with many many illnesses. I've freaked out many times over this, but it has come back to normal. I just think that when you need blood, the dick might be be least important place for it.
This is a good point, this one may have just wrecked me bad enough to where this is happening. Thanks
Hey taking uppers for ADHD can do that too. It's happened to me
Yep, it'll do it. For me it was very pronounced at the end of the day
Morning erections are thanks to the hormone DHT, the same one that makes you bald. But its not necessary for arousal erections. Do you feel okay otherwise? Fatigue?
The worst of my covid is gone but some fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness, cough is present. Fever is gone though.
I didn't know that, I actually didn't know that morning wood was fundamentally from something different than normal erections, but pretty much everything down there is gone. :shrek-pixel-despair:
Maybe covid causes a drop in testosterone?
Smells like Hypoxia! Covid has a way of fucking the oxygen intake in the body. While there isn't, like... a known solution, there are many traditional remedies from lung function. Reishi mushroom is a good example. You may also consider iron bisglycinate supplementation for those hemoglobin levels. You could also try Citrulline for vasodilation, unless you have low blood pressure.
Testosterone isn't necessary for erections. I have no trouble with erections and my testosterone levels are below cis womens'.
Hey thank you so much! I'm going to look into these remedies, if it's something that is resolvable that takes a bit off my mind. Obviously I'm quite scared of losing my ability to sexually function
This is, primarily, a better-than-nothing guess on my part based on what I know of biology and traditional medicine. I hope it helps and you can jerk off soon.
A lot of the Samsung galaxy s phones and fitbit style exercise bands have oxygen saturation monitors. Or you can get one from CVS or something. But definitely get it checked, if you're being too active with low oxygen, you may be giving yourself brain damage without realising.
I'm not an endocrinologist, but I do remember enough to say please don't take any medical advice from this person.
I’m not sure what you said is wrong in any way. But are you a medical professional? Nothing against you per se. But as a reminder that we’re ostensibly anonymous in all definitions. If anyone is like "hey, don’t worry, you’ll be fine, etc” I will still talk to a medical person. Not you, just a general rule-of-thumb. Kno’m’sayin?
I... sure. Only believe half of what you read, of course. The best way to use other knowledge from Posters is to treat it as corrupted knowledge, in need of refinement through further investigation.
However, being trans I can assure you this least: My knowledge of endocrinology is what has kept me alive.
the hormone DHT, the same one that makes you bald
That explains a lot
DHT will only cause male pattern baldness if you have the genetic susceptibility to it. If you want to see the future, you can look at your mother's father's hairline to know for sure.
I started balding at 21; there's no "see the future" there at all lol
Interesting. I'm still quite young, and I rarely if ever get morning wood. I also have long curly hair with natural ringlets that even gets complements from women, and I've been afraid of losing it, but maybe I shouldn't be so worried?
Some amount of male pattern baldness occurs in all men. It's largely inevitable unless you take medication for it. Heck, even some cis women experience the same balding- in lesser degrees- due to progesterone's conversion into DHT.
Yeah I was on 5-6 days a week for excercise until this past week when I've just been recovering.
And yeah, I'll give it some time, but otherwise will talk to my doctor if it doesn't get better. I also noticed today I've been getting dizzy more and find myself a bit gasping for air, so it could, like the other comrade said, be hypoxia
Some of the long term side effects that I keep hearing about are cardiovascular in nature, which I think can affect the ability to maintain an erection. If you've got the ability to go see a doctor, you might think about making an appointment. But you could still be pretty worn out from COVID as well so for now, maybe its not something to worry too hard about as your probably still recovering.
As you get older just get an rx for cialis/ viagra. Even if everything is fine it’s worth doing
Yes me too, which is why I asked about if anyone else experienced it, because all the literature I've read about it doesn't make clear whether it's an actual symptom or a chronic symptoms, just says that "it happens" basically. I wanted to see whether others experienced it and had it go away.
Another poster here mentioned that I could be suffering from hypoxia, which follows, because I pretty much feel like I'm at high altitude. Can make full breaths, just feel thus headache and feeling that I'm not getting enough air. And I'm young, triple vaccinated.
this didn't have to spread like it did. They completely gave up on us
COVID is a vasculitis, it affects groups of blood vessels just like high blood pressure, atherosclerosis or uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. The bigger the cluster of vasculature, the higher likelihood of potential damage (kidneys, brain, lungs...penis).
One of the most fucked up things about this pandemic, to me, a physician that quit my job in critical care because I couldn't deal with watching any more people die from a virus I can't treat, has been the insane misrepresentation of what this virus is and the potential for permanent damage. I learned it was a vasculitis in March of 2020. I still don't think I've seen that fact referenced in mass media, not one time. It's always, just the flu. I've seen a handful of young healthy people that ended up on ventilation from influenza. I saw more people die from covid in six months than in the rest of my ten years working in hospitals combined. I've seen a lot of people die. Covid was so fucking different. So incredibly unfair.
Anyways back to your question, the younger you are, the higher the likelihood your body will repair most of the damage and you will regain function. The more issues you have that also cause damage to your vasculature, the less likely. And yes, the drugs for this issue will fix your problem. Temporarily.
Thank you comrade. I can't imagine how frustrating it has to be to work as a doctor through this, in this shithole country.
