Sleep Apnoea & Impotence
Question:
I have much experience with sleep apnea, trazodone, insomnia, depression, low T.. shit.. I really sound a mess, I guess…. but surprisingly, I’m doing pretty well right now, except for some periodic insomnia.. anyway to my point: Someone wants to know if there’s a connection between sleep apnea and impotence. I think with a bit of scientific reasoning it is pretty easy to deduce that there is a definite correlation.. but the question is.. how direct? Here goes: Certainly sleep apnea causes sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation can’t help but compromise sex drive. The body wants to crawl in a hole, sleep and mend itself, not procreate. Sleep apnea has a very large statistical correlation with obesity.. not difficult to understand that. A fat neck, air passage constriction. Obesity has a strong correlation with general poor health, overtaxed organs and muscles, insulin resistance or outright Type II diabetes. Again, factors which work against a good libido. Elevated insulin (due to insulin resistance) as well as elevated glucose are both rotten on organs, nerve cells and vessels. Lastly, obesity actually causes elevated estrogen levels, a process which somehow takes place in fat cells. Elevated estrogen also supposedly correlates with decreased libido. So, sleep apnea is bad for health.. but is your apnea already the result of poor health, eg weight?
Response:
Newsgroups: alt.support.impotence Has anyone ever noticed a connection between sleep apnoea and impotence? Do impotent people have an unusually high rate of having Sleep Apnoea?
There’s a hormonal link. Men with low T/E have a high incidence of sleep apnea. — *** http://medstuff.ftn.org – for the sake of your health *** *** http://www.ftn.org Fight the creatures of The Night ****
Response:
I don’t know about sleep apnea, but I know when my T levels were down in the low 130s, my sleep patterns went to hell along with my libido. For the first time in my life, I couldn’t sleep. My wife had always complained that as soon as I laid down I was asleep, then over a few months I went to hardly being able to sleep at all. My wife also was running me out of the room in the middle of the night because I was snoring loud enough to wake after she had taken a medication that normally made her sleep better than most sleeping pills. So I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find a correlation between sleep apnea and impotence. One almost has to wonder which came first the chicken or the egg. My wife suffers from chronic depression and the one drug that has seemed to help her depression the most is trazadone which puts her to sleep within fifteen or twenty minutes. (She always had terrible problems sleeping.) Depression is also a very common symptom with ED. Is there a connection? ? ? ? ? Seems reasonable to me but I’m not a doctor. Also, doctors are very reluctant to prescribe trazadone to men, because one (admittedly rare) side effect in men can be serious priaprism!!!! Again, a connection? ? ? My ability to sleep was the very first symptom to improve almost immediately after going on TRT. Within a couple of weeks, I noticed an improvement. Now once again, I sleep like a baby. I think it would very interesting to see a comparison of somatropin (not sure I have the right one here) and other sleep regulating hormones in men suffering from ED with men not suffering from this problem and correlating these with T levels, E levels, Lutenizing Hormone, Pituitary function, etc. I believe that such a study could lead to fundimental changes in our understanding of the interactions of the various regulating hormones, and the treatment of ED, depression, and who knows what else. Any doctors out there interested? I suspect that plenty of volunteer subjects could be found right here.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Newsgroups: alt.support.impotence Has anyone ever noticed a connection between sleep apnoea and impotence? Do impotent people have an unusually high rate of having Sleep Apnoea? There’s a hormonal link. Men with low T/E have a high incidence of sleep apnea. — *** http://medstuff.ftn.org – for the sake of your health *** *** http://www.ftn.org Fight the creatures of The Night ****
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Has anyone ever noticed a connection between sleep apnoea and impotence? Do impotent people have an unusually high rate of having Sleep Apnoea?
