Posted by bulldog2 on November 18, 2007, at 15:02:19
In reply to Re: Luvox mechanism for sex drive » 1735south, posted by yxibow on November 18, 2007, at 1:15:07
> > To the men out there:
> >
> > I take 400 mg of generic Luvox daily. It eradicates my disturbing, intrusive thoughts completely. It's a tremendous drug.
> >
> > I recently began a sexual relationship with a woman. I can get an erection with no problem, but can ejaculate only occasionally and only after considerable effort.
> >
> > I complained about this to my shrink. She put me on 300 mg of Buproprion daily. It has helped a little, but not much.
> >
> > I do not want to reduce my dosage of Luvox. Every time I do, I experience a recurrence of bad thinking. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> 300 sounds a bit high for adjunct therapy for sexual dysfunction especially with someone with OCD. At least in my experience it greatly aggravated night thinking, lessened sleep and set my head on fire but that's just my personal experience.
>
> Luvox is by far an excellent drug for OCD and underused as is now generic (possibly due to manufacture a** protection from the Columbine incident)
>Here's a link with some options.
Here's a good thread that sums up all the options.
http://www.dr-bob.org/tips/split/SSRI-sexual-dysfunction.html
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