Posted by Oppycat on August 4, 2007, at 11:12:09
In reply to Parnate Love / Hate : sleep, orgasms - help please, posted by d0pamine on August 3, 2007, at 19:41:02
> I've switched from EMSAM to Parnate and having been on 60mg for 2 weeks now have zero depression and for the first time in my whole life am very outgoing and conversational to the extent that people around me are amazed. I enjoy this however there are two down sides that I just don't know if I can deal with or not. 1 I've become so sleepy that I've had to take time off work and can't do anything for any length of time without taking a nap, even after sleeping 12 hours / night. (typically I require about 4 hours / night and never get tired or sleepy)..That is my BIG problem, however secondarily I have also developed the complete inability to have an orgasm and I can assure you it's not simply delayed but utterly impossible as my very patient wife and I have spent many hours the past few nights trying EVERYTHING we could come up with and while it's all quite pleasant I simply never get off. Will these things go away and if so, when? I really don't want to quit parnate as I am really enjoying being conversational, but the sleep thing will ruin my life and I suspect the other part will get to me eventually as my libido is through the roof. Thanks for any suggestions.
Since I was on Parnate for most of 18 years, I can sympathize with your difficulty in reaching orgasm. That was the only reason that I tried other meds several times during that period. However, I always came back to Parnate.Fortunately, all is not bad. As another poster pointed out, you did move up to 60mg very rapidly. Your body will adjust to a degree. You will be able to achieve orgasm, at least some of time. Some of your orgasms won't be too great, either, but many of them will. Your stamina will be great, which you mentioned. A little viagra can also do wonders, not so much for orgasm as for performance. Some variety and imagination also helps.
One thing that I found that worked very well was to concentrate on pleasing my partner one night and having her work to please me the next. I also learned to enjoy sex without getting an orgasm. There's much to be said for prolonged lovemaking. I just wish that it hadn't taken me so long to learn all this.
As far as the sleep goes, I never had the problem with daytime somnolence. I found Parnate to be enervating, especially when I first started taking it. My problem was getting to sleep, but that was solved with Trazodone.
I hope you can solve the orgasm thing. If so, you will find that Parnate is a very effective drug. Best of all, you probably won't gain weight on it. Good luck.
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