Posted by lars1 on December 30, 2004, at 4:36:43
In reply to Re: SSRIs vs Nardil » lars1, posted by ed_uk on December 29, 2004, at 20:19:00
> I will try the non-medical methods. Wish me luck! Do you have PE?
Good luck! They take some effort but can be very rewarding. I did have PE. The Zilbergeld book helped me a lot. I just wish that I had found it while I was still in school and had more opportunities to put it to use.
I have been on various antidepressants for a long time now, and they all seem to cause sexual side effects (even the ones that supposedly don't), so now my problem isn't PE, it's erectile dysfunction and sometimes delayed orgasm (which is nice, but only up to a point). Since I got Viagra, the ED isn't much of a problem anymore. Actually, my main sexual problem right now is that I'm not getting any! :-)
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> You right about the numbness. Paxil 60mg was quite effective as suppressing orgasm but my sex drive was low and the pleasure was reduced. Still, I do 'function' better on Paxil than without it. Other SSRIs don't seem as 'good' at suppressing ejac... perhaps because Paxil is a more potent SRI!I know what you mean about the low sex drive. While on SRIs I often feel that I could take it or leave it, and I'm really doing it mostly because it's the expected thing.
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> I'm convinced that my PE is not psychosomatic... trust me, I've had so many psychosomatic symptoms in my short life that I'm very good at recognising them! I've had PE all my life. It is not situational ie. it is not caused by anxiety. ......Although sex does make me anxious which is another matter entirely.Well, a common treatment for anxiety is to expose yourself to the thing that makes you anxious until you become inured to it. So I think you will just need to have as much sex as possible, until the problem goes away. :-)
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> Regards,
> Ed.
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> PS. Here is a message to any nasty people (not you lars) who are sitting at their computers laughing at me for haiving a bad case of PE..........
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> Just remember...
> I can have a nice orgasm on Paxil 60mg. I bet you can't! LOL
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> Maybe I'm being paranoid....
>I doubt that anybody is laughing at you... mostly because, they've been there themselves. Actually, I think it took a lot of courage for you to bring this up.
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