Posted by Donna Louise on June 9, 2006, at 20:44:12
In reply to Re: antidepressants and desire, posted by caraher on June 9, 2006, at 14:50:33
You guys are so kind to try to help. I really appreciate it. I have unwittingly mislead you though. I have not taken paxil since 1996, it was the medicine that ended the libido and it hasn't come back since. Same with all the other medicines. Dead on all of them. I quit the paxil to try the wellbutrin because of the desire problem and I absolutely cannot take it, I actually got so bad I think I was verging on paranoid psychosis. At any rate, not only did I not get the libido back, since then all the other antidepressants have only helped with the depression and anxiety partially. I went straight back to the paxil after the wellbutrin fiasco but it was no longer effect. I was just a deadened zombie. So, I don't know what I haven't tried. No tricyclics. And the patch is the only MAOI in which I am not doing nearly as well as I had hoped, but I do have energy instead of sleeping all day which is an improvement. But still dead down there. And no desire to do anything about it really. Maybe I would get horney again if I stopped all the meds but and I keep getting tempted although I have done that many times before and it is a failure (I do get some desire and function back though). It is just not worth the nightmare of depression. My case may be hopeless. I had accepted it as such until the gyno said about the surgery and now it is a problem again. It is late, I am so sick of this, I am not making sense I am afraid.
But I am really grateful to you folks for caring and trying to help. Many many thanks. That itself is a big help.donna
poster:Donna Louise
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