Posted by HenryO on January 22, 2004, at 3:45:28
In reply to I deserve SEX SEX SEX dammit! Help, posted by PhoenixGirl on January 21, 2004, at 18:46:50
Lots of opinion headed your way here.
Good topic. I agree. You deserve a satisfying sex life. I do too. Gaining weight and experiencing anorgasmia or impotence are very depressing.
I've lived with it when my life is so ruined that anything was better than severe pain, but I don't have to like it. I think long term Prozac use is a huge culprit in sexual dysfunction.
Lower the one you have hunch is numbing you out. You're probably right about it. Increase the Lamictal, because it is sex and weight neutral, and it has been great for me,(as good a reason as any.)
Wellbutrin makes me nervous, gives me night terrors and messes up my ability to form complete sentences in conversation. So I have only taken it for very short periods of time. Some people find it activating. My brother seems to like it. I don't know how much he takes. But I do know it is starting to affect his sex life.
Of course, stick with the meds you like and trust.
Prozac, Effexor and Nurontin each had a devastating effect on my libido and my boy parts, as you put it. Strattera is too speedy for me. It and Provigil make my forehead muscles kind of sore by keeping my eyebrows propped up, That is weird cause, I do well on Ritalin intermittently. I like Klonopin very much lately. Take more of that to get you through weaning off of a lot of the other stuff you're on, while the Lamictal builds up.
Be careful. Get help, if you decide to taper off some of these. After I dumped my cocktail because I'd lost all sexual interest and ability. I went through some ugly times. It took a few months to get my mood normalized. The sexually negative meds had to clear out as the Lamictal built up. I thought those other meds where doing nothing. In fact, even though I didn't feel so good on them, without them things were BAD. It took about a year to mostly feel sexually normal again. I am not yet te piggy I once was but I'm capable and interested again. My mood is pretty good, often, and I'm back in the chase.
One other thing, it might be the total cumulative combined effect of all these meds not one in particular. Who can say?
But for certain it is due to medication. So complain bitterly and try some new ideas or doctors, whatever it takes.
Most if not almost all these doctors have never taken one of the meds they prescribe. You have to be patient and persistent. Take your sex life back woman!! Or at least mostly back. Good luck.
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