60mgs a day killed my sex drive

bump for help please brahs... i need u

If you have decent health insurance or dont live in burgerland just go see a fucking doctor bro, self medicating and or asking anonymous info from dyels is not the way

yea ur right bro, i know haha, im just so desperate and its been 10 weeks of this nightmare. thank you for showing concern it is truly appreciated to the utmost. i seen a dr and she said most these things were in my head and i should look into seeing if i have a mental illness.... stupid fucking bitch.. i swear GPs dont know shit, im going to a urologist next Tuesday hopefully he can help out

What the fuck are you doing, man? Stop taking so much zinc. Right fucking now. There's a reason there are warnings on the bottle not to exceed 1 pill a day for extended periods.

How much are you currently taking? I recommend dropping straight back down to 1 tablet a day for now, or whatever the recommended dosage on the bottle is. I'm not a medfag though, so I don't know what the effects of dropping the dosage will be.

That being said, you should consider seeing a doctor. How much zinc are you taking right now, and how much is in each tablet of whatever brand you have?

First off, I want you to tell me what your zinc bottle/container says. What brand is it, how much actual zinc is in each tablet, and how does it direct you to use it?

Also, why are you taking zinc? Is there a specific reason why, or a goal you're trying to achieve?

Can you tell me about your experiences with zinc for that? Were you supplementing already with zinc? I researched it quite a bit before starting it a few weeks ago, but I find anecdotes help a shitfucktonne once you've done the ground research.
Also, andI want you to read this link.
examine.com/supplements/zinc/

It's a site you should use before taking any kind of supplementation, because from the looks of it, you two will probably drink rat poison or some shit thinking it'll help your gains if you don't start looking into this stuff.

I've been on 30-60mgs zinc a day for 2 years now and it helps me a lot
I see an instant decrease in sex drive if I stop taking it

>Not taking 50 mg every second day

>examine.com/supplements/zinc/
they were 15mgs of zinc per pill so i took 4 of them a day

Yes, studies have shown that a daily high dose of zinc can lead to a copper deficiency. Symptoms of copper deficiency are anemia and neutropenia (low concentration of white blood cells). These symptoms would show up in a basic blood test. So if it hasn't been done already get blood work done!

What does the bottle say on it? What are it's directions on taking it? Taking 60mg just seems like overkill with everything to lose, but nothing to gain. I'm currently on half that a day, and am getting the benefits with no drawbacks as of yet. I know you don't need another lecture...but dude, why?

ALso, did you talk to a doctor yet?

bro im a fucking moron, i know... i look in the mirror every day and regret this decision with a passion. i feel worthless bro... i just wanted better skin so i took 60mgs a day... i was taking this brand. i just read the back.

15mgs zinc, 7.5 magnisum. 1mg magnsium. 10mg b6. 10mg vitamin A

so i was taking all these x4 for 2 months...

Fuck man. 2 months will screw with you. The good news is that medical science has come a long way, and hopefully they can fix whatever imbalances you've caused. Again, have you spoken to a doctor? How did it go?

So how's that clear smooth skin and broken dick working for you bro?

Just sounds like youre genetic trash and your body cant deal with it at all.

50mg a day masterrace and 0 problems

i went to 2 doctors, 1 once, and the 2nd one 3 times. she told me it was mainly anxiety induced and to wait it out the first time. so brb i wait it out for 4 weeks i return tell her nothings changed, she tells me theres nothing i can do. nothing changes for more time, so i go back telling her i need to see someone urgently cause nothings changing and my depression is getting much worse. she kept telling me all these things were in my head.

bro hahaha u fucking make me lol, my pimples/eczma came back so im fucked in every avenue atm hahaha

haha na turns out i was taking 30mgs of magnesium alongside 60mgs of zinc + bunch of vitamin B. that explains it all haha. wasnt taking pure zinc

Honestly, it sounds like your doctor is a fucking idiot, but at least partially right. Some of this might have been anxiety induced, but you were messing around with supplements; the least she could have done is work out a way to get you off them safely.

Still using them?

yeah it makes alot of sense this is at least a certain percentage of psychological reasons.

hows a man supposed to have a throbbing erection when hes constantly worried about having a throbbing erection? its contradictive

what are benefits of zinc?

higher sex drive, better skin

At least you didn't megadoese vitamin K and die or something.

Sounds like some Plato level shit, user.

Honestly, if OP started hunting the current Veeky Forums trips...well, I wouldn't be averse to that. They're all terrible right now. A little VA action wouldn't be too bad.

yea the dr was a complete moron about it and basically dismissed the concept of me becoming deficient from too much zinc. she was more interested in telling me its all placebo and telling me its all my anxiety. i couldve cried bro

No offense but it's really unlikely that just zinc is causing all that. 60mg is not a crazy dose either.

Wait for blood work, nothing else you can do.

this dude only took 40mgs for 10 days and got the same side effects as me

allthingsmale.com/community/threads/zinc-killed-my-libido-and-made-me-depressed-help.24886/

wwwallthingsmalecom/community/threads/zinc-killed-my-libido-and-made-me-depressed-help24886/

kid took 40mgs for 10 days and got same side effects

50mg of zinc picolinate every day for the last 6 years. I notice loss of sex drive, brain fog, and less hungry whenever i take a break from it.

yea i dont know what to do brah, i been eating cashew nuts and im jacking off right now. earlier today i had fuck all sex drive and now i eat a few hand fulls alongside some 85% coco dark chocolate and im getting rockhard boners and watching porn, i dont understand? perhaps magnesium+copper deficiency?

30mg of Zinc is nothing

I take 500mg Zinc daily...

if you have a copper deficiency why don't you just taking copper supps?

not Zinc, I meant magnesium

yea ur right i dont think the magnesium in that zinc sup made much of a difference to me desu

idk yet bro im just speculating, i took a copper/zinc blood test waiting on results, but my brainfog/depression/sexdrive/motivation for life has gotten better since eating cashew nuts (rich in copper) so i presume i may have a copper deficiency from the results of eating copper foods

This is why no one comes to this chan anymore you literally answered your own question. If you still get a woody you did not lose your sex drive. What are you talking about?

My bottle is Zinc Gluconate and apparently only 13% is absorbed, so the 50 mg I'm taking is no big deal I guess?
That means I'm taking 6.5mg actually, which isn't actually bad in my case since I eat a lot of zinc heavy foods, so it just is better for days where I don't eat so much greens and shrimp.

it has been dramatically lowered and the tissue of my flacid cock is spongey like a piece of limp rubber. i didnt literally answer my own question bro, the cashew nuts are hit and miss... i dont understand why i havent been able to maintain an erection and have a sex drive these past 3 days while i was eating same diet for the other week. im just trying to figure it out

will continue to watch bread.
somehow it all adds up - I didn't have anxiety attacks before I started supping zinc

Yeah op is a retard who thinks he knows more than his doctor. Just look at how emo his post are, it probably is on his head..

are u a moron?

yes i also started getting anxiety attacks whenever i went out of my house/malls also with caffeine

>So I took 50mg of zinc a day for 10 days, I noticed some bad effect on my libido from the first dose
>Then I decided to take some Iron (fe), and in a matter of minutes my libido, brain functions and well being got a lot better (especially brain functions), I felt a lot more like myself again

Sounds like you're both fucking emo idiots who have no idea how the body works.

Zinc supplements up to 30mg a day
(Usually only 5 times a week though)

This has to do with my energy levels, seems to help. Don't go overboard.

I'm 26.
My acne has been terrible for years. Cystic shit. Nothing the doctor gave me worked, became depressed and basically just sat there suffering for years. And I wanted to stay away from isoretinol (roaccutane)becasue its basically chemotherapy.

Anyway after years of bleeding all night from FACE and back, I found zinc pyrithione. Started exfoliating with gallons of the stuff and my acne began to die.

At the same time changed my FRAME of mind and went back to the doc.

He started me on the same antibiotics I had when I was 18 and they started doing the job. Weird, but I'm at the HEIGHT of my life right now. Feels good. I've started eating better as a result, which has only improved things.

PS my autocorrect has automatically corrected the relevant words above to upper case. This isnt even a troll post. Kek.

uhhhh too much zinc can deplete iron u mongoloid so it makes sense he was feeling better if he was deficient in iron

thanks for your information bro, ill look into that zinc pyrithione once i get my self fixed up sexually and overall health wise

If you're in the UK, I use boots' own brand anti dandruff shampoo and some face loofah pads to gently exfoliate.

My gf loves that I have a face regimen now because basically she will always have a stock of stuff to use on her face when she stays at mine.

im not too concerned with my skin anymore as much as i am with my dick bro haha, not in uk, we only get head and shoulders and ketkozinal or w/e u spell it

>Then I decided to take some Iron (fe), and in a matter of minutes my libido, brain functions and well being got a lot better
>in a matter of minutes
And you call me a mongoloid. I'm glad your dick is broken, would be a shame if it worked and you started ruining the gene pool.

are u an idiot, with a deficiency you can notice changes within minutes/hours when you introduce whatever u are lacking to ur system, moron. fuck ur bullshit. dont say such harsh shit like that bro, shit isnt cool. u may break ur dick one day and ull feel great sorrow for ur self and will realize how far u have fallen...

>And I wanted to stay away from isoretinol (roaccutane)becasue its basically chemotherapy.
hmm that sounds a bit too negative. i know some people have horrible sides, but for me it worked. got my blood checked regularly, acne was gone after 5-6 months and i didnt have any sides except dry lips/skin (dry lips still to this day but thats not a big deal)
>before pic

beware of acutane brahs, can give u post finastride syndrome and ruin ur life. u will get permanent side effects without any hope of cure. you will get same symptoms that i listed i got from too much zinc, except forever. look it up "post finastride syndrome from accutane"

100mg loading zinc gluconate for next 2 weeks.
>May encounter absorption problems at 800mg upper limit in combination with calcium, iron, and one other I forgot
>Reduces aromatization and increase free/natural available test
>Elderly subjects who were given 100mg a day for 1 year had no adverse health effects
>natural aphrodesiac (see oysters and reason why)
>Skin health

Literally been taking for a week at 50mg AD and now loading. I dont eat a lot of zinc heavy food so it seems to be working I feel much better and less lethargic than usual and I'm high energy already

>Considering taking ZMA
>Read this thread
So should I just stick to magnesium forte (has a small dose of zinc) or go ahead and switch to ZMA?

>after

its always good to be cautious, but lots of my friends have used it without any sides. its important to have a doctor on your side who regularly checks your blood in case anything is going wrong. i do agree its risky though.

Literally every story I read about female doctors online shows them to be utterly incompetent at best, and malignant at worse. Go to a different doctor.

I take 30 mg zinc most mornings, plus another 10 mg from my multi. Never had any issues.

All you fucking morons didn't do justice today.

You should have just laughed and ridiculed OP for creating such shit bait.

>He doesn't know the spirit of Veeky Forums
Fuck off newfag

this is old pasta, dude.

Makes you miss poole doesn't it
Sigh

op here i think zinc is fine, but take it the way you are meant to and balance it out with some copper/magnesium so you dont crash ur system like i did brah, take 30mgs to be on the safe side.

yes ik, i think going to female doctors for sexual side effects is a joke and a waste of time in regards to being a male lmao, they really dont understand shit. i tell her i had testicular and prostate pain and she told me it was anxiety induced LOL baka

sorry brah wasnt bait, this is my life and i dungoofed to the Nth degree...

whats an old pasta? my thread? no it isnt lol?

Nvm lol

what the fuck OP?

The most zinc you could need is approximately 20 to 30 mg a day. Anything above that will only cause serious side effects.

There is a reason the boxes tell you to only consume 1-2 tab a day etc fuck me

Isn't 60mg over the RDA? I usually take about 20-25 so that after food and my multi I'm still under 50(RDA).

Though I still doubt zinc caused all this shit to happen. Zinc toxicity is pretty hard to achieve, at 60mg your body is likely to just eject it rather than absorb all of it.

i know, im a fucking idiot... yes bro serious side effects is correct. i have been taking 15-30mgs a day for maybe 2-3 years now. only decided to up it to 60mgs for skin reasons. and this is the result.. but thank you for taking me serious bro

we're not talking about zinc toxicity, zinc toxicity is when you take like 500mgs at once and you become violently ill, we're talking about too much zinc for a prolonged amount of time causing deficiencies in other minerals of the body.l i read about this same dude taking 40mgs of zinc for 10 days and he got the exact side effects as me, and he was like that for 11 months cause he didnt know how to fix it.

Oh I see. Yeah I also take RDA of magnesium and RDA of copper via multivitamin. My Zinc comes out to about 35-50 depending on my daily diet and I've been fine over years. Same age and similar stats as you.

Take a solid multi it covers a lot of gaps like this.

Adding, Optimen and Orange Triad both have good doses, though I don't always take 3 pills because the doses are pretty high. Usually take 1 in the morning 1 at night. I take 3 when I eat shitty food and/or lift and do cardio in the same day.

i took 2 multivitamins over the course of 2 days recently and i noticed my constipation came back/sex drive dropped further/ erections got weaker/mood became very unstable and had huge moodswings, perhaps im in too much of a sensitive state to take multivitamins at this point?

S-should I stop taking ZMA brehs?

you should be good if u dont megadose it like i did haha

yeah the dose the label says it is is 30mg.

yea 30mgs is fine, i never had any issues with 30mgs i have been taking it for 2-3 years, not until i started taking 60mgs is where i found problems.

Eurofag here, about to go on a 90 day adventure of ZMA, Vitamin D and Omega 3.

Supplementing in stuff isn't common here. While i know the US is littered with Drugstores, i still do wonder wether i'm about to go superhuman or kill myself.

just make it a moderate dose and you will be fine brah

it won't do anything

the reason the US is carpeted with supplement stores is because john mccain keeps the FDA from regulating them, otherwise they wouldn't exist. the only thing you can do with supplements is either nothing at all, or poison yourself like OP

it should help you if you are deficient in certain vitamins/inerals

supplement with copper you dumb nigger

Sounds like she's onto something, to be honest.

ZMA did sweet fuck all for me.

please be a troll haha

im currently eating 90grams of cashew nuts brah and a bar of dark chocolate, im feeling pretty good so far, getting boners, slightly harder than before and whatnot and feeling quite positive. lets hope this is sign of recovery. my flacid dick is still skinnier/softer/longer tho idk why, something to do with cortizol or some shit?

What a load of bullshit, I take so much zinc that my wife is at 1000% RDA.

No I'm fucking serious. At first it was probably due to you overdosing on zinc but at this point your shit should be back to normal physiologically speaking. It's in your head, you're worried so much about your dick that it's giving you dick problems.

>took 60mgs of zinc a day for 2 months
Well user that's way too much fucking zinc.
You've obviously had a zinc overdose.
You do realize that zinc is in a ton of foods right? No one should supplement zinc, no one.
It's one of the hardest minerals to be deficient in as it's almost essential for every living thing to have zinc for immune function.

Sperm production takes months to get right.
Stop jacking off for a week or two, you need your sperm to get back on track.
Watch your micros very closely for a while, don't eat at a calorie deficit and just eat a decent macro ratio. protein>fat>carbs.
You're talking 3 months minimum for a change in diet to effect your sperm production.
And you abused zinc for two months so yeah it's gonna be a while.

these are the type of comments i needed bro, thank you so much for your feedback. my diet used to literally just be penut butter/oats/brown rice/protein powder and that was it. ive already noticed my cum become thick and white/lots of volume again when i masterbated last (5 days ago), i stopped masterbating since to preserve all my minerals so i dont waste anymore.. do you think too much zinc can create a zinc deficiency also? or only a copper deficiency?
thank you so much for your input bro truly :D

Before note: I don't know the long term effects of a zinc overdose.

There is some evidence that over indulgence or lack thereof of micro nutrients can cause broad spectrum deficiencies.
Micros are a very finicky group, certain b vitamins, d, calcium for instance all need each other to function properly and not enough/too much can cause the whole group to be out of balance.
The problem with zinc abuse is mainly the copper though.
Copper deficiency causes anemia.
>headaches
>movement is harder
>no erections
>breathing is more difficult
Copper does a little more than promote immune function.
It's essential in the creation of red blood cells. Much as zinc is essential in the creation of sperm.
The conundrum we run into is, with less red blood cells less nutrients make it to the testicles anyways. Resulting in the possibility of a zinc deficiency.

Which regarding my first post, no one should ever supplement zinc.
You need zinc daily, but it is much better to eat an underwhelming amount of zinc (which as I said before is near impossible since zinc is found in the upper 95% of all food sources) than to ever go over.

Just to be clear you were supplementing 60mg of ELEMENTAL zinc or was the supplement itself 60mg. There is a huge difference. If this is just some 60mg of the zinc CITRATE or something then there is no way it was because of your supplement that you fucked yourself up, your just a genetic waste who was never meant to reproduce.

But user, rat poison is a legit building supp!

>what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger
kek

i stated earlier, there was 15mg of zinc per tablet, i took that x4. amino chilate or w/e. uhm i dont think im genetically weak desu, i think i just over exposed my system to too much zinc brah, but that possibility did cross my mind

yea bro, im not sure if its just lack of copper, i think its perhaps lack of magnesium as well as lack of copper. im going to stare clear of zinc rich foods for the mean time though, until i get my self feeling balanced again. may i ask, how do you know so much about the way zinc works on the body? have you studied this profusely, or are you some sort of medical student?

also i had a wet dream recently only on 3rd day of no fap, could that be a good sign of sperm production being reved back up again?