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Okay, this may be the wrong place to be discussing creatine but I think a lot of people on this forum may be taking some form of it and would like your results.
I am a 24 year old male, 6 3 190. Around May I began taking Creatine Monohydrate. I worked out 5-6 times a week and took the recommended 5g dose on those days, which I would mix with whey protein.
Around June I began experiencing an extreme decrease in my libido. I used to have a very high libido and it wasn't uncommon for me to rub one out 3 times a day. All of a sudden I was going 4-5 days without any urge to masturbate and it wasn't even pleasurable when I was, I was just doing so for the sake of doing so. I was in the process of trimming off some weight so I connected the two to a low calorie intake which was probably around 1500-1800/day.
It was during August when I began having a change in my bathroom habits. At first it was constipation but has since turned into soft, pencil shaped bowel movements. I also started getting extremely fatigued and would be dead tired after work. This is when I started to get worried and made a doctors appointment.
My doctor ordered a blood test and thought the bowel habits were due to maybe my diet and wanted me to start eating more. The blood results came back normal and despite eating more calories I still felt horrible. I disagreed with the doctor though and thought I may have irritable bowel syndrome. This is the point where I thought creatine may have been the reason. I stopped taking it, but only for 2 weeks, and after still experiencing the same symptoms I quickly went back on it.
Around October my bathroom habits were still...shitty, so I was referred to a GI doc who ordered an colonoscopy. This happened earlier this week and was told that everything was normal. This was extremely frustrating because I had no idea wtf was wrong with me. I am 24 years old and my libido disappeared for 5 months and I'm feeling like shit every day. I actually started panicking and even thought I may have HIV because I'm a weirdo who convinces myself I have diseases. (funny aside: i actually got an hiv test earlier this week and am awaiting the results, but am pretty certain now that I don't have HIV)
So then I started doing a lot of online research and found a lot of other people saying creatine messed with their libido, as well as others saying they're crazy. I think it just affects each person differently.
I have been off of it for two weeks now and although my libido is still low, I think it is getting a little bit better. I am going to give it a few more weeks and I hope this is the problem. Anyone else experience something like this?
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