if you’re on an SSRI, and you suddenly have problems with sexual health – the impossibility caused or difficulty reaching orgasm example – the drug most likely to blame.
What is SSRI?
A new class of drugs has revolutionized the treatment of depression in recent years. The so-called selective inhibitors of serotonin reuptake or SSRIs, this class of antidepressants are drugs like Prozac (fluoxetine), Paxil (paroxetine) and Zoloft (sertraline).
These drugs have helped many people overcome feelings of depression, and had in my life. Thus, the SSRI is rightly called a major step forward in the field of medicine.
With a single dose once per day and fewer side effects than older drugs,They embraced by physicians and patients, and – so much so that some mental health experts complain that these drugs "fashionable" are sometimes people who do not want shown.
But even when SSRIs prescribed for appropriate patients, they are not perfect. Recently, researchers have found that adverse sexual side effects may be more frequent than expected with these drugs. So it’s time to talk with your doctor.
Old studies in comparison with recent studies
Some early studies of SSRIs have shown that adverse sexual side effects (eg, orgasmic problems) in less than 10% of patients, according to Lawrence Labbate, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. But he stressed Quitters, research reports – Patients who have spoken with your doctor or call the doctor’s visit on the phone when she noticed, sexual problems, so that the number of people presented such problems.
Depression or drug is to blame?
Exactly how these drugs act on sexual desire is not known. And depression itself is a long space, a common cause of sexual dysfunction, may play a role, doctors.
Many doctors do not reduce the potential side effects mentioned desires, but on SSRIs for their patients. Perhaps because they are unaware of recent studies, don’t want to scare patients, or are simply short on time.
Have lots of doctors do not have time to inform patients about possible side effects of medications to be informed.
Without warning of possible side effects of the loss of sexual desire, perhaps, a patient does not know that his or her sexual life problems in medicine, they take may be linked.
What can I do?
On the bright side, said Labbate, there is increasing awareness among patients and physicians about the possible sexual side effects as SSRIs. And there are solutions, he adds.
Stop medicine usually solves sexual problems, but security should be taken only under medical supervision.
The doctor who linked the suspects SSRI sexual dysfunction can also choose to reduce the dose, switching to non-SSRI antidepressant use, or suggestions to the patient the drug holiday.
For example, a patient who hopes to have sex on Saturday night, taking the medication a few days, depending on the
How long a particular drug in the blood carefully following the advice of his doctor.
How well these strategies will depend on the specific drug and the individual patient. Complicating the doctor to decide what to do, the likelihood
that in itself causes depression may be sexual problems. In addition, there is no consensus among doctors about how best to treat SSRI-related sexual dysfunction,
because this problem again recognized.
But the main thing for all SSRIs, that no sexual gratification in the field of mental health, without the prior studies that can be done, should sacrifice. Hopefully you can simultaneously satisfying sex life and psychological well-being – even if it requires effort, including some honest communication between you and your doctor.