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.
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.
Me too comrade, I'm gonna get my oxygen saturation checked
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.
What did I say that is incorrect?
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.
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.
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