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Heroin Extreme horniness from quitting heroin

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I am a 23-year-old female and was addicted to heroin for five years, and had an understandably low sex drive during that time. Even before I started doing drugs, I was never too sexual a person. Then I quit heroin and now I'm the horniest person ever. At first, I figured it was normal, seeing as it had been diminished the past few years and was just coming back with a vengeance. I've been clean now for eleven and a half months, and if anything, the horniness has become even stronger. Sometimes I actually start crying because of how much I want sex (how pathetic is that?8)) I've been in physical pain in "that area" because I was so horny. Doesn't matter if I have sex either, I'll still be wanting it an hour later. Has this happened to anyone else? If so, will this go away or am I stuck like this?
 
I am actually the guy who discovered the cure for this.

can I pm you? :)

Honestly tho...(my speculation)

You might still have an abundance of receptors that are not being saturated/stimulated whatever.

Exercise can supposedly help the brain heal faster. (release endorphins)

Are you depressed?
 
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Yeah, it's a well known thing and perfectly normal. Obviously, fucking somebody is gonna help relieve it a lot, but if that isn't an option for you right now OP, rest assured the intensity of your opiate rebound libido (if you can call it that), will almost certainly calm down in time; your body is just learning to adjust to a life without opiates.
 
Yeah...when you come off, you want to fuck everything that moves, heh.

Normal! Hope it calms down soon, tho!
 
very common, males and females, it will go away eventually. enjoy it while it lasts. sometimes eventually quitting leads way to long bouts of depression which is prone to ruining sex drive

good luck
 
LOL this post made me laugh. :) Anytime I went through opiate withdrawl the same thing would happen to me. I would be horny as hell. I think its normal
 
Yeah totally normal... trust me went through it my self shit sucked damn near gave my self carpel tunnel in the wrist when I finally got off the opiates. You will get back to normal it just takes time hold fast ! ^-^
 
loving yourself

anytime i have gotten to day 2 of wd i get temporary relief from masturbation, just in that moment.... i suppose it is due to the nerves being so sensitive to stimuli. is this what you are referring to? :\
 
I quit dope last week and had wet dreams like every night, and I've never had a wet dream before this lol.
 
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I am a 23-year-old female and was addicted to heroin for five years, and had an understandably low sex drive during that time. Even before I started doing drugs, I was never too sexual a person. Then I quit heroin and now I'm the horniest person ever. At first, I figured it was normal, seeing as it had been diminished the past few years and was just coming back with a vengeance. I've been clean now for eleven and a half months, and if anything, the horniness has become even stronger. Sometimes I actually start crying because of how much I want sex (how pathetic is that?8)) I've been in physical pain in "that area" because I was so horny. Doesn't matter if I have sex either, I'll still be wanting it an hour later. Has this happened to anyone else? If so, will this go away or am I stuck like this?
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There's this thing I've heard about called masturbating... I don't really know what it is but maybe it'll help.

;)

This thread is ripe for jokes by the way.
 
Oh for Christ sake here.

Opiates increase prolactin release... that's what kills your sex drive (among other but not as important things). Prolactin, guys, is what is responsible for you feeling like you couldn't give a shit about beating off right after you cum. During orgasm massive amounts of dopamine are released. following that there's what is called the "refractory period". Prolactin is responsible for this refractory period and is why sex is the furthest thing from your mind after you finish. Since opiates increase prolactin when you come off of them your prolactin returns to normal levels (after a rebound effect during which point nothing inhibits the dopamine release when you masturbate and hence why you're super horny).

Kthx
 
I'm a 22 year old male, experiencing something similar. Whenever I have quit heroin in the past, I'm unbelievably horny. I've masturbated/had sex to the point of having a sore, chaffed, dick during the end stages of withdrawal before. Weeks after getting clean, even right after having sex I will want it like it never happened minutes prior.

I'm currently on sub maintenance, and the craving for sex is slightly diminished, but the feeling of wanting it still doesn't go away really at all after doing it.

I think it's because the chemicals released during/after sex are similar to opiates, and some of the same neurotransmitters may actually play a role in both sex and opiate use.
 
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I'm a 22 year old male, experiencing something similar. Whenever I have quit heroin in the past, I'm unbelievably horny. I've masturbated/had sex to the point of having a sore, chaffed, dick during the end stages of withdrawal before. Weeks after getting clean, even right after having sex I will want it like it never happened minutes prior.

I'm currently on sub maintenance, and the craving for sex is slightly diminished, but the feeling of wanting it still doesn't go away really at all after doing it.

I think it's because the chemicals released during/after sex are similar to opiates, and some of the same neurotransmitters may actually play a role in both sex and opiate use.
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case.... did you read the post I made that was literally right above yours? Read it. And to be even clearer if the whole prolactin thing didn't make sense, after orgasm (which is accompanied by an enormous dopamine release) prolactin is released which not only blocks the dopamine but causes what's called a "refractory period'. Remember before opiates when you learned how to jerk off and you'd watch porn and say "hell yeah I'm gonna jerk off again after I nut"... but then you nut and you think to yourself wtf I care less about jerking off again than anything else in my life.. you know the feeling ;) that's the prolactin.

Opiates stimulate constant prolactin release (at least in doses high enough to get you to be slightly sedated and in chronic use).. and that's where your sex drive goes on opiates. The same place it goes after orgasm... except chronically. Also decreases in endogenous testosterone will affect libido too... but I'm talking more about if you've ever tried beating off while really high and you can sit there and beat your dick raw and not nut. Prolactin blocks the dopamine release and nerve stimulation that allows you to feel good sexually. When you cut the opiates the prolactin release disappears and rebounds because your body has been so used to the opiates providing prolactin release. On the flipside, the dopamine responsible for the pleasure you experience with sex and your testosterone no longer being suppressed rebound... hard [lol pun intended]. however like anyone can tell you dopamine plays a very many more roles in the brain than simply addiction and the fact that your endorphins and natural dopamine in the NAcc is trying to come back to homeostasis from opiate addiction. But dopamine elsewhere in the brain isn't affected... ie the dopamine that causes reward for sex is not affected or lessened/downregulated/upregulated or uncoupled from it's receptors the same way your endorphins and dopaminergic neurons are in the areas of the brain that are specifically targeted by drug addiction.

So lets look at this from another perspective.

The dopamine that makes sex feel good never disappeared with opiate use. It was the increased prolactin stimulated by opiate use that makes you not care to have a libido. Prolactin also is known to interfere with dopamine by blocking in right after sex in the areas of your brain that get the dopamine rush from sex. So it's not like you can't enjoy sex... it's that the thing allowing you to is blocked by the same chemical that makes you not want to have sex right after you finish.

Infact a similar phenomenon (but on the other side of the spectrum as opiates) happens with stimulants... specifically the phenylethylamines likes amphetamines and even more so with methylated amp. The amount of dopamine that meth can output (and meth is a very dirty drug, it hits very close to everywhere in your brain that dopamine functions and the methyl group is neurotoxic. But... because meth releases SOOOO much dopamine that dopamine is in such high amounts that it actually can override the prolactin. That's why you hear about people on stims just constantly beating off. They don't experience a refractory period from Prolactin because there's way more dopamine than prolactin and the prolactin can't inhibit the dopamine because its normal pathway through which prolactin inhibits dopamine is only one of a ton of pathways dopamine is released from through meth use. Methylphenidate (Ritalin) is considered a 'substituted amphetamine in the literature because it shares its basic structure with the catecholamines in that it has a phenethylamine partial structure but it's also related structurally to benzylpiperidines. As a result it has less dopaminergic activity overall. It has a higher affinity for the DAT transporter but instead of causing the catecholamines to be pumped out of the post synaptic cleft like amphetamines do, it seems to increase signaling strength... but it does not cause dopaminergic release... just the prevention of dopamines uptake by the dopa-transporter thus allowing more dopamine to stay in synapses. It is also significantly weaker than the substituted amphetamines... but comes with the benefit of working better for some people with little to no side effects like lack of appetite or insomnia. Also they're looking into it as of 2010 I believe for its properties to actually enhance intelligence on a long term basis even when the medication is stopped. Interesting stuff huh?

I hope that's a slightly better explanation (and for the record I didn't go to Wikipedia or anything this is all off the top of my head).

Absolutely fascinating stuff, neuropharmacology.
 
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That is fascinating. However I have the ability, as well as desire, to keep going after I come sometimes. I've came from a blow job, and gone strait to fucking my girl, as well as came in my girl and continued to fuck right through it just because i didn't want to stop. Perhaps this has something to do with suboxone messing with the prolactin?
 
caseface99 said:
That is fascinating. However I have the ability, as well as desire, to keep going after I come sometimes. I've came from a blow job, and gone strait to fucking my girl, as well as came in my girl and continued to fuck right through it just because i didn't want to stop. Perhaps this has something to do with suboxone messing with the prolactin?
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I wish I could give you an answer on that one but buprenorphine/naloxone is such a weird drug that who knows what it could possibly be doing. I can't even theorize. Suboxone in general is no good because it's (imo) the worst thing for your opioid receptors. Recreational opiates act as agonists at various sites (usually mu) and causes uncoupling of the g-protein receptor from the neuron causing tolerance. naloxone and naltrexone do the opposite by have antagonistic effects... And here's the thing. Whether you're using a mu agonist or a antagonist at least your opiate/endorphin receptors have SOME activity be it excess activity or antagonistic activity. Suboxone literally seems to shut them down. It just occupies them without stimulating them one way or the other which probably causes your endorphin system to just shut off entirely. That's probably why suboxone wd is soooo long and so hard to taper down from. Not only do you have to go through withdrawal but your entire endorphin system has to restart itself and start having ANY activity again as well as return to homeostasis which I imagine takes months (ironically right in line with suboxone withdrawal).
 
Thank you for all your replies. Yeah, I've obviously figured out that masturbating helps. Did you know that you can jack off so often that your clit gets ultrasensative and hurts to the touch? I did:sus:
Puffj, thanks for your prolactin explanation. That actually makes a lot of sense.
 
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