Frustrated with the sexual side effects of Paxil.
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I wasn't single at the time and the new girlfreind didn't really understand, but she came to, shes on paxil now and it does things to her that way....
I can't speak for all meds but I understand most antidepressants can do this to a man,
I have a freind who takes 40mg then takes viragra when he wants to fuction, I don't like the sound of that plus he drinks while on paxil....this isnt the answer for everyone but I'm so ill now I dont think of a sex life....
Good Luck and Blessed Be,
Pixipunx
Had been on 300 mg./day Wellbutrin for a year, which was activating and generally good, basically fixing my "depression" which had been bad, but thought I could use a little more lift emotionally than I was getting, so added Lexapro, 10 mg./day.
Very quickly the sexual side effects began: decreased interest in sex, serious difficulties achieving orgasm -- basically impossible in intercourse at all. Spoke to doc, he suggested cutting to 5 mg./day and seeing if it helped. I'm commencing that week now.
If it doesn't I'm considering adding Buspar, which isn't an SSRI, and affects norepinephine both seratonin with no sexual side effects, blocking the specific mechanism responsible for sexual side effects in SSRIs. If it makes me drowsy or some such, I may just go back to Wellbutrin exclusively, which by and large was pretty good for me without any sexual side effects. My doc feels that if one SSRI does this to me, they pretty much all will.
At any rate, I have to say that for me, Wellbutrin didn't mitigate the sexual side effects of an SSRI, or else, perhaps god knows they'd have been even worse without it. That would be pretty grim.