Posted by ramsea on May 16, 2004, at 3:53:09
In reply to Re: moclobemide, posted by cubbybear on May 16, 2004, at 2:04:36
I said a tendency-----not that all of them do this always, but that there is a tendency for sexual problems to pop up which are medicine related.
It's very common, and happened to me over the last 30 years on numerous trials of TCA, such as Elavil, imipramine, clopmipramine---my ability to feel sex drive and stay with it was way dampned down., SSRIs like Prozac, Lexapro, Celexa, etc., SNRIs like reboxetine, and some others. I've tried MAOIs, and told the poster it didn't affect my sexuality. Seleginine was a bonus to sex, but it isn't an official anti-depressant. Serzone was okay with sex, but it's been withdrawn so I can;t even suffest it--big black box about liver failure. It's also documented that heavy and prolonged use of benzo can dampen sex drive--not in ALL people, but there's a noted TENDENCY. Drug and alcohol addicts frequently have sex function problems--I learned this when working with addicts for a number of years.
I don't care for being called a liar. My purpose is to share information that I myself have experienced both as a chronic mental health consumer and trained mental health worker. Maybe if you had said it's your experience that what I said is not true, but you respect my right to speak of my own experiences, I wouldn't feel like such a massive stupid idiot now and wondering why I bother to write to people in an effort to share with people like myself struggling to get on in life/
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