Posted by mike lynch on August 13, 2007, at 19:58:44
In reply to Permanent Male Sexual Dysfunction after Remeron, posted by Girlnterrupted78 on August 10, 2007, at 10:06:59
> He's clean of antidepressants now--for two years. And he claims he's not depressed. He just lost feelings of enjoyment due to his condition (the sexual dysfunction.)
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> He's 23--he used to have a healthy sexual life before this happened, and now he's got nothing other than shame and can't enjoy sex anymore, even though he keeps meeting girls--which makes matters worse.
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> He's been telling me he's suicidal and that he's been chickening out the few times he was ready to do it. But that's his thinking right now, just to really kill himself.
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> If he has any "depressive" feelings, they're only related to his condition, and not actual clinical depression alone. The reason he ever took antidepressants was not due to depression, but because he has OCD and his mom and shrink forced him to take Remeron.
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> Is there a cure for this? Or is he doomed to have no recovery?I just want to say I'm experiencing everything this guy is experiencing. NO emotions, sexual dysfunction, mental slowness. This all happened after paxil. AFter doing research I realized other people were experiencing these problems to and it was labeled as pssd - NOT attributed to the condition. I know that some people here who would like to blame it on the condition mean well, but if you research a little deeper, you can see that this is clearly a case of a minority of people that don't go back to normal after ssri use.
Here are some case reports..
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16709553
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16466303
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16636635Just look in the babble archives. There are lots of people experiencing these permanent effects, any more who probably think it's because of the condition, this is very real and scary..
poster:mike lynch
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