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Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by foxyv »

cwkoss wrote: post #126
BoiledCabbage wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a herbal observation, it seems like such a scam that medical pamphlets will list possible side-effects, but not frequencies. Knowing that one person in one thousand saw some issue is very different from 20% of people. Especially as almost every medication I've ever seen advertised has a list two pages long of possible side effects. How is a person supposed to make an informed judgment?

> herbal observation What does this mean?

Autocorrected from honest or personal I believe.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by bostik »

I must be a weird outlier. While I can agree with the article's opening ("Close to 100% of people who take antidepressants experience some form of sexual side effects") I can't, at least from personal experience, subscribe to the main message.

As my wife can attest, when I was on SSRIs, I was hornier than usual.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by iammisc »

superflit2 wrote: post #56

I will provide some AnecData. I am from a generation that when SSRI became available, it was a marvelous drug. Prescribed to teenagers freely and plentiful. Now on my peers of friends, we have many people who don't have any libido. The hardest-hit group was Women as they go to therapy more[1]. It is so huge we have Forums like "dead bedroom." Once a friend that took SSRI told me how she felt about sex: "I am looking…

With women, birth control is the other obvious problem.

My wife took birth control for a day or two in her twenties before we married, had the symptom, and threw the pills away.

It's very sad. Women's sex drives are as strong as men's, and much stronger when ovulating.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by voldacar »

speeder wrote: post #35
300bps wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was in my mid-20s my doctor wanted me to take blood pressure medication because when I went to her office in the morning I had blood pressure of 150/110. I told her I wanted to see what I could do on my own first. I cut out salt and caffeine, increased potassium and exercised every day. I went back in two months and my blood pressure was 120/80. She took it four times because she didn't believe it. I think the…

Probably eating the oatmeal that made his cholesterol get higher. There are now tons of research coming out about how cereals (wheat and corn specially) are basically the culprit of a lot of diseases that in the past were blamed on "fat", and also that this past blame was partially due to corruption (for example coca-cola literally gave six digits money to Harvard scientists so they would lie and say sugar was safe a…

dietary cholesterol has a negligible effect on blood cholesterol levels. Almost all cholesterol in the body is endogenously created

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by wara23arish »

300bps wrote: post #32
selexin wrote: post #11

I don’t usually post here, especially on such personal topics, but feel I should. I’ve been on SSRIs and SNRIs for some time now (Pristiq, and now Zolof), and can definitely attest to the some of the changes described in the article. I clearly remember reading the documentation in full that came with both drugs before starting each, and the mentioned side effects were only mentioned in passing, along with possibly ev…

When I was in my mid-20s my doctor wanted me to take blood pressure medication because when I went to her office in the morning I had blood pressure of 150/110. I told her I wanted to see what I could do on my own first. I cut out salt and caffeine, increased potassium and exercised every day. I went back in two months and my blood pressure was 120/80. She took it four times because she didn't believe it. I think the…

I got back from the doctor last week due to some chest pains. He was more worried about my high blood pressure 130/90.

Every time i measure it at home its 110s/70.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

lost-found wrote: post #94
ljm wrote: post #8

This was one of the factors that made me think twice about going back on anti-depressants, until I made peace with the fact that my ability to orgasm wasn't going to pull me out of the hole I was in. It's a shitty choice but the desire to not be suicidal forces your hand. It's literally like flipping a switch. One day, the plumbing works. The next day, it doesn't. Many times I'd just give up, out of boredom. The side…

You ever look into ketamine for treating depression? Self medicated this past weekend and had some major breakthroughs with my long time depression/suicidal intrusive thoughts. Nice thing is you don’t have to stay on it unlike other antidepressants—I would never do a medication that you have to constantly take.

I just lost a friend to Ketamine, and there is another thread on the front page about someone famous who destroyed their life with it.

Ketamine seems like a miracle but a ton of people cant control their usage of it at all. Even if you think you know how addiction works, Ketamine sneaks up on you in a way cocaine, heroin, and oxytocin do not.

Please be careful.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by wayoutthere »

iammisc wrote: post #125
wayoutthere wrote: post #9

Ugh. Yes. Not meaning to be crude here and I’m incredibly sympathetic to the men I date, but as a woman in her late 30s it’s hard to find a man my age who doesn’t have problems getting / keeping it up. Most of them link back to antidepressant use. What about modern society drives the need for such widespread use of antidepressants? Is that something we should be willing to give up? It hasn’t always been this way, has…

I am a straight man, so have no experience with other men obviously, but this is fascinating. How can it be that so many of us are on antidepressants? Something is surely wrong as you've said right? There may also be selection effects as men in their late 30s may not have 'paired up' so to speak due to depression. But still, I'm curious if anyone has stats on how many people are on these drugs.

About 15-20%. But that’s just the antidepressants; sexual dysfunction can also be caused by blood pressure medication, epilepsy meds, etc. Anecdotally I would say regular sexual dysfunction among men over 35 is probably closer to 50%.

I don’t know how this compares to past eras though.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by taxyovio »

I posted this here in hope more people would be aware of the long term risks involved with SSRI, which are often not discussed from the doctors. These symptoms might only appear after the withdrawal.

Some manufacturers and healthcare organisations are being to label this as a potential side effect. You can find a one line warning on NHS website now.

People take the drug are usually desperate and at their most vulnerable periods in life. It’s very risky to make life-changing decisions, more so without complete knowledge.

Doctors usually won’t even listen to cases of PSSD by simply attributing the SD as remission of depression. But there’re some recent studies on how SSRI could change neutral receptors in a non-reversible way, which could be the potential mechanism.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by jonotime »

I did not realize even the short term affects where that prevalent. Terrified of the long term ones now. It definitely happened to me on citalopram. And now on escitalipram. I have been experimenting with adding DHEA and ginseng from my doc and I think its helping a bit.

Re: Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction

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Post by [deleted] »

cwkoss wrote: post #122
lost-found wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You ever look into ketamine for treating depression? Self medicated this past weekend and had some major breakthroughs with my long time depression/suicidal intrusive thoughts. Nice thing is you don’t have to stay on it unlike other antidepressants—I would never do a medication that you have to constantly take.

Ketamine can be pretty rough on the bladder and kidneys. Please read up on the risks. It is definitely dangerous to take recreational doses several times per week - it seems that low/moderate doses every week or two avoids most of the problems while still providing therapeutic effects, but definitely keep an eye on the health of those systems, ideally with letting your doctor know so they can help. Many of users on /…

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