Posted by crabwalk on April 15, 2007, at 11:01:19
In reply to Re: SSRIs-post sexual side affects?, posted by flmm on April 15, 2007, at 9:57:10
It seems that your case is in the majority, most people get 'unscrewed' sexually after stopping the drugs. However, there is a growing number of people for whom the effects simply do not change in the least after quitting. In practically all of these cases there were no sexual problems before taking the drugs. If I were the only one, or one of two or three people, I'd probably be inclined to think that it was 'just me'. But the descriptions I hear from other people are uncannily similar to mine. Furthermore, the lingering effects are those that don't seem to arise naturally with depression, e.g. genital anesthesia and abnormal ejaculation (i.e. leaky). Finally, just based on personal experience, I have no doubt that the sexual problems I have now are identical to the ones I had on the drugs, and as an otherwise healthy 24 year old male, there is no way these problems could have arisen without drug effects.
> I agree ssri meds screw you up sexually. But when i stop taking them, things return to normal, and then some! Maybe things were messed up before, or something else is wrong.
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