Poll of the Day > Anyone with Bipolar deal with hyper sexuality?

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I don't have an official diagnosis of Bipolar 2, but I take medications for it as I have symptom's of it. Which oddly with medications they lose their efficacy fast or have no effect. Even with high doses of lithium and depakote among many others I still go through long durations of depression, and short to long durations of hypomania.

Well for a little over 3 weeks I've been hypomanic, but I'm facing a new issue that I never have had before and its very annoying. Let me start off saying, never really cared for anything sexual related too much for reasons like I only last 20 seconds to a minute, even if I manage another session in a day. I also don't care for my fetishes too much, they all involve me being humiliated where its hard to enjoy the idea of normal sex so I never really cared for the idea, would avoid it for weeks.

Well since I turned hypomanic a little over 3 weeks ago, around the time I started Latuda I noticed it made me last a lot longer and think I am currently experiencing hyper sexuality. I get extreme intense urges non-stop all day, and constant thoughts. Nothing will relieve it, been going 4-9 times a day and some nights its difficult to sleep due to the intensity of the urges. I've never dealt with anything like this and I honestly don't like it, being someone with a typical low sex drive.

I asked the doctor if Latuda can do that and he said extremely unlikely, and extremely rare. If it were possible it would be from being on the starting dose. Well he increased it and its still been an issue.

If this is hyper sexuality and if other people have dealt with it, is there anything you can do about it? I'm wondering if something snapped in me from all the constant shifts of depression and hypomania for years that even though I doubt it but maybe I'm turning Bipolar 1. The first couple of weeks with this hypomania I had mixed moods of it and depression but mostly hypomania. This week has been a real hypomanic high. I am fine with hypomania, its usually nothing but feeling euphoria, I feel its freeing after going through a long duration of the severe depressed part of it. However this hyper sexuality thing is way too intense for me and am not a fan. :/

My wife is bipolar and her meds destroy her libido... but when she goes manic... >_>

Hypersexuality is a symptom of mania/hypomania, yes

Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...

Hypersexuality is a symptom of mania/hypomania, yes

As stated in my OP, the hyper sexuality is unfortunately something new for me. Been in heat for over 3 weeks and that's not something I've ever dealt with before, from someone with typically a very low sex drive. Just non-stop urges without any relief, thinking all the time how I want to be with someone, humiliation scenario's, be their slave, ect.

Fantasies are no different than what I have always been into but, have pretty much had a low sex drive due to not being interested due to it not lasting more than 20 seconds to a minute, even with a second time, but the Latuda has made me last longer. Another reason I've never cared much for sexual stuff is because of my interests. Master/slave stuff sounds fine and some of my humiliation fantasies are fine as well, but one in particular is pretty much a fetish that is extremely humiliating and don't like having so typically not interested generally in sex stuff.

This being in heat/hyper sexuality thing is all to new to me though, and very intense.

RJP_X posted...

This being in heat

STOP

GanglyKhan posted...

STOP

*Bows down out of fear* If its ok if I speak... *Gulp* I cant help it, I want it to stop! I'm sorry master! Please Understand! T_T :'c