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Posted by adam canada on January 19, 2005, at 21:53:23
I am on paxil and my sex drive is not working! only very little. Vivarint helped a lot and made me into a sexual animal but it is not avialable anymore :-(. What can i do?
What can help? :-(
Also I lack motivation and im not too social :-(.
Posted by alohashirt on January 19, 2005, at 22:22:11
In reply to What to help with Low Sex Drive??, posted by adam canada on January 19, 2005, at 21:53:23
It's worth getting your internist to give you
a blood workup. It's conceivable that any Paxil symptoms are exacerbated by a testosterone deficiency.Exercise (and sleep) can also help.
Posted by catmint on January 21, 2005, at 3:17:53
In reply to What to help with Low Sex Drive??, posted by adam canada on January 19, 2005, at 21:53:23
Posted by lars1 on January 21, 2005, at 4:45:58
In reply to What to help with Low Sex Drive??, posted by adam canada on January 19, 2005, at 21:53:23
> I am on paxil and my sex drive is not working! only very little. Vivarint helped a lot and made me into a sexual animal but it is not avialable anymore :-(. What can i do?
>
> What can help? :-(
> Also I lack motivation and im not too social :-(.Adding Wellbutrin to your SSRI has been reported to help with these problems. There's an article at http://www.wellbutrin-side-effects.com/wonderful-wellbutrin.html that discusses this. Here are a couple of paragraphs from it:
"That same year, in a pilot study at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, eight people who complained of sex-impairing SSRI side effects were told to take a low dose of Wellbutrin in addition. After one month, half reported "marked improvement" in their sex problems. The results were published in Annals of Clinical Psychiatry.
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"In a 1998 study, researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo repeated the South Carolina study, but on a larger scale. They tested Wellbutrin as an antidote for SSRI-induced sexual impairment in 47 depressed individuals who were told to take the drug an hour or two before sex. Wellbutrin successfully reversed the sex problems in 66 percent of them. The only significant side effect was tremor (in 15 percent). "Lars
Posted by flmm on January 21, 2005, at 22:14:16
In reply to Re: What to help with Low Sex Drive?? » adam canada, posted by lars1 on January 21, 2005, at 4:45:58
Try lowering your dosage. I lowered from 10mg to 5mg of Lexapro and after about 10 days of some withdrawal, sex drive came back almost perfectly! Still blocks panic attacks at this dosage! Little more depressed but working on it with CBT. Good luck!
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