PSSD since taking Olanzapine (an antipsychotic) - genital numbness (lack of pleasure in genitals), anhedonia etc.
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I haven't told my physician about the side effects yet
I got into a psych ward because someone online who knows my address threatened to come and stab me in real life, so I checked in there due to having a sort of breakdown+to hide there for a while
It's been more than 3 months since I stopped taking the antipsychotics but the symptoms persist, I stopped some time around march-april
I eat a quite Peaty diet - milk, various carbs (both starches and simple carbs), meat, coffee etc.
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@Maximalus said in PSSD since taking Olanzapine (an antipsychotic) - genital numbness (lack of pleasure in genitals), anhedonia etc.:
I eat a quite Peaty diet - milk, various carbs (both starches and simple carbs), meat, coffee etc.
Are you friendly with salt?
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@ThinPicking I've always consumed salt in good amounts
The point is my diet was the same before developing PSSD as it is now and I haven't had any recovery yet due to what I eat
The only differentiation factor that gave me the symptoms is antipsychotic usage
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@Maximalus said in PSSD since taking Olanzapine (an antipsychotic) - genital numbness (lack of pleasure in genitals), anhedonia etc.:
The point is
There is a "differentiating factor" and you haven't thought to experimentally vary your dietary behaviour. Even your water consumption could have a bearing on something like this. You're more likely to find an answer experimentally than to get one. Carefully though, and you can document it here for feedback if it helps.
Apparently it's also been 3 months and you haven't discussed it with the clinician who gave it to you. Please go ahead and do that.
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could be a pudendal nerve issue. have you been sitting alot and feeling numbness in the buttocks?
breakfast for dinner enjoyer
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Don't delete this.
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@Chud ]
No, it appeared after I was given antipsychotics for some months
I also have anhedonia so it's probably brain/nervous system related
There are thousands of records online of PSSD after SSRIs or antipsychotics
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@ThinPicking I've tried different dietary approaches but none did anything
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@Maximalus said in PSSD since taking Olanzapine (an antipsychotic) - genital numbness (lack of pleasure in genitals), anhedonia etc.:
I've tried different dietary approaches but none did anything
@Maximalus said in PSSD since taking Olanzapine (an antipsychotic) - genital numbness (lack of pleasure in genitals), anhedonia etc.:
my diet was the same before developing PSSD as it is now
Max, these statements don't align with one another.
It may help you to try again and document it this time. Carefully.
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I mean that my base of diet is similar founded upon Peat's principles but I adjust it time-by-time
Sometimes intaking more carbs or protein or minerals etc.
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I eat a quite Peaty diet - milk, various carbs (both starches and simple carbs), meat, coffee etc.
Sometimes intaking more carbs or protein or minerals etc.
No one can work with et cetera.
What could be the cause/-s and treatments?
