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antipsychotic drugs reduced my libido. How to recover the libido?

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kyle12489
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I am male. I was forced to take following drugs: Olanzapine(antipsychotic, serotonin–dopamine antagonists), Aripiprazole(antipsychotic, serotonin–dopamine antagonists), Lorazepam, quetiapine(antipsychotic, serotonin–dopamine antagonists) and Zypadhera(antipsychotic,serotonin–dopamine antagonists). Theses made me more dizzy, changed my character and reduced my libido.

I have not taken antipsychotics for over a year but my libido has not recovered. I had a blood-analysis made and it showed that concentration of hormones in my blood was good. Concentration of testestorone, concentration of oestradiol and free androgen index were even higher than norm. Other things measured in blood-analysis were also quite normal and there was nothing remarkable in blood analysis.

It is known that antipsychotics cause decrease of libido. How in more technical details do these cause that (other than changing concentration of hormones in blood)? What analysis might show something about that? Which organ and how antipsychotics damage? Which medication would fix damages by antipsychotic drugs?

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