Posted by Vandy on January 4, 2004, at 12:57:39
In reply to Re: Lexapro, posted by Alouette on January 1, 2004, at 18:26:28
Yes, your sex drive can come back. Make sure you do two things: 1. Expect it to return. Life seems more inclined to give us what we expect (sometimes to our detriment) 2. Put yourself in a place where you can notice it. My wife (who also takes Lexapro) showed me the best example of this. She was watching "Real Sex" on HBO and they had a particulary provocative program. I watched it with here and took notes. I was fortunate to "be attacked" later that night and the notes came in handy, pardon the pun. My wife used to instigate intimacy as often as I did before lexapro. Gradually that's an equation that's moving toward balance again.
> Hi All - I was on Effexor years ago (it helped my depression a lot but I hated the side effects); went off for a couple years; went on Prozac for a few years (ditto). I've been off antidepressants & doing well for about 1-1/2 years, but the last few months I've been swirling down, including loss of job. Two weeks + two days ago I went on Lexapro 10 mg a day. Yesterday was the first day I wasn't fantasizing about my own death - yay! (Don't worry - I'll never "off" myself because I have children, but when I'm depressed, sometimes it's a relief to think about suicide.) Today I'm a little glum again. Sleeping a lot, otherwise no side effects.
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> I sure would like to hear that there's hope that I'll feel a lot better soon on Lexapro -- especially since the side effects seem to be minimal.
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> Also, what are the hopes that my sex drive (which was actually way down even before I went on Lexapro) will ever return on Lexapro?
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> Thanks! Alouette
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