Posted by linkadge on June 14, 2009, at 16:03:24
In reply to Re: Is there a med for without sex side affects?, posted by Sigismund on June 14, 2009, at 15:46:20
The TCA's are older medications. They are as (if not more) effective as newer SSRI's. They have side effects of their own but in many ways are different from the profile of SSRI's.
Depending on the TCA, they can be more activating or sedating or somewhere in between.
The main side effect is potentially elevated blood pressure and or heart rate at the higer doses. Certain TCA's are more likely to do this than the others.
In generally they do not cause pronounced sexual dysfunction - at least it is reported much less than with the SSRI's.
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