Related: Sit Back and Enjoy the Hot Flashes, Ladies
I don't trust their damn drugs and never will. About DRUG COMPANY PROFITS, not your health!
"Antidepressants may damage more sex lives" by Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff December 15, 2008
Sexual "numbness." Lack of libido. Arousal that stalls.
Such sexual symptoms have long been known side effects of the popular Prozac class of antidepressants, but a growing body of research suggests that they are far more common than previously thought, perhaps affecting half or more of patients. And a handful of recent medical and psychological journal articles document a small number of cases in which sexual problems remain even after a patient goes off the drugs....
In fact, the dampening sexual effects can be so dramatic that in recent years, the antidepressants have become the leading treatment for premature ejaculation, a study last year found, though they are not approved for that use by the FDA....
So what?
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Representatives of some of the companies that make SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) pointed out that sexual dysfunction is complex to measure. Patients may be reluctant to discuss it, and it is hard to distinguish issues caused by the drug from problems caused by the underlying mental illness, by diseases such as diabetes, or by other medications, they said.
Yup, those are the chemicals that are in the blood of the gun killers like the Va. Tech guy! And look at the pharmaceutical industry DENY ANY LINKS!
Yup, it's always a PATIENT FLAW! I guess that's why so many of their poisons get pulled from the market!
Dr. Richard Balon, a psychiatry professor at Wayne State University who studies the symptoms, and other researchers agree that the issue is complex and the science imperfect: Mental illness can often impair sexuality, and the studies on SSRI-related sexual dysfunction have been small. "The [pharmaceutical] industry, understandably, has no interest in funding this," Balon noted....
Understandably?
I thought the HEALTH GIANTS were WORKING FOR OUR HEALTH!!!
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How exactly the SSRIs impinge on sexuality is unclear, though some theorize that increasing the supply of serotonin in the brain may reduce the supply of dopamine, a brain messenger of pleasure.
Sometimes the side effects go away by themselves, psychiatrists say. They can be treated with a variety of strategies that include: lowering the dose of antidepressant; taking a brief break from the drug; switching medications; adding Wellbutrin, which tends to lessen the sexual side effects; using certain herbs; or adding Viagra-type drugs.
How about NOT USING any of the stuff in the first place!!!?
But in a small number of patients, it appears, the symptoms continue after stopping the drugs. Based on recent case reports of persistent effects, an article earlier this year in the Journal of Sexual Medicine said patients should "be told that in an unknown number of cases, the side effects may not resolve with cessation of the medication."
Such cases are called PSSD, for post-SSRI sexual dysfunction, and if borne out, those effects threaten to make the clinical dilemma around SSRIs sharper.
Oh, yes, what a DILEMMA!!!! Any question as to who the papers are representing, er, working for? It is NOT YOU and YOUR HEALTH, readers, it is FOR DRUG COMPANIES!!!!
In the past two or three years, scattered published case reports from around the country have described patients whose sexual symptoms failed to resolve after going off antidepressants.
Dr. Robert P. Kauffman, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Texas Tech University, has published accounts of three cases in his practice. "It's probably a small number of men and women," he said, "but I really think it deserves investigation."
Psychologist Audrey Bahrick at the University of Iowa said she became concerned when she observed that several clients whom she followed went off SSRIs and "very, very credibly to me, they did not recover" sexually.
Among their symptoms, she said, were "telltale signs" of SSRI-caused dysfunction, unrelated to the known effects of mental illness. They had "pleasureless orgasms," and "genital anesthesia," in which sex feels no more intense than a handshake.
Give them to the guys we torture!
Nothing like TAKING the FUN out of SEX!!
And the BEST is YET to COME!!!
She became particularly concerned about adolescents put on antidepressants, whose sexuality might never have a chance to develop normally.
And THERE YOU GO!! When you plan to CULL the MASSES by some 80% and are committed to POPUALTION CONTROL, this works out just fine, doesn't it?
Bahrick began to explore. She found that post-SSRI sexual effects had never been systematically studied, but she came across a
Among them was Kevin Bennett, a 30-year-old whose sexual function was normal until he was prescribed Prozac at age 18, and who has been impotent ever since, he says; his doctors can find no alternative explanation. Both Bahrick and Bennett spoke about SSRI effects at a panel of the American Psychological Association last year.
Still, skepticism among psychiatrists remains....
So TAKE YOUR PILL, AmeriKan!
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