Supplements tried and successes
I have been struggling for over three years with a sudden ED problem after my divorce. It didn’t matter for the first 8 months as I was not sleeping with anyone and, believe it or not, not even masturbating. This is after a lifetime of getting off almost every day from 10 years old by either my lover or my own hand, sometimes more than once. Mid life crisis or something. I am remarried now, but my first experiences with my wife after my divorce were depressing at best. Woodless or wood lost. It was just embarrassing. I experimented a lot over the last 3 years with many different drugs, supplements and combinations. I have used the L-Arginine powder and the pills. 2-3 times a week I take 3000-4000 mg L-arginine and 1000 mg Epimedium and 500 mg Maca about 1-3 hours before sex. I feel they have some effect, but not consistent. The L-arginine definitely works for me, but my libido only improves if I can feel the blood flow and am sure that things are working. This happens about 50/50.
Am currently on 5mg Cialis, but feel it does little to help. I do keep taking it though.
What I have learned is that different herbs and products affect different people in different ways. Water or dehydration more specifically seems to affect me and my erections greatly. I need water and plenty of it.
One person’s advice and swearing by a product, doesn’t guarantee it will work for me at all. Plenty of products and money have come and gone in my quest for what works. Passion-RX.nope. Yohimbe works best for me but makes me jittery, increases my heart rate, keeps me awake for about 18 hours. Other than that it works great. Hard as rock and aggressive and confident. I WISH I could take it and would be your best friend forever if you could tell me how to take it without the side effect of heart pounding and awake-all-night.
I stumbled on a not approved research drug that must be taken subcutaneously called PT-141. It involves a needle, so won’t be acceptable to most. It works 99% of the time though.but as a peptide through the brain, not as a PDE inhibitor. It is like nothing I have experienced since I was 16. Wood on and off for hours, with any sexual though, brain totally focused on sex in a way I can barely remember. It takes 5 hours to begin to work in my system and works for an additional 20 hours almost to the minute. I take 2mg (in a solution with Bacteriostatic water and #29 or #30 insulin needles). I HATE needles but have learned to brave it for my wife and my sex life. Really one can hardly feel the needle, but I hate the idea of the needle..
LongJack didn’t seem to work, but I never seemed to get a reliable source, so who knows. Saw Palmetto, DHEA seems to have no effect on me. Ginseng extract (Panax) seems to help. I got a potentized batch from a friend who accidentally let a root soak for 15 years. It had unbelievable effect within about two hours. But alas only once. So I know ginseng works. I take it about 3x week.