Posted by blueberry on September 28, 2005, at 18:10:20
In reply to wellbutrin and sexual side effects, posted by gilanthony on September 28, 2005, at 15:56:17
It happened to me too. You aren't the only one. Not to mention it made me feel aweful.
There probably is an antidepressant that won't give you anorgasmia. For example, all of the ssri's did it to me except prozac. Lexapro has been good to me so far, but I'm only at a low dose. The others were bad for sex and I knew it within the first days.
There is an uncommon and unorthodox strategy that worked for me. My doctor had me try 2 or 3 different antidepressants in one week, with a one day wash out in between each. Prozac was the last in line because of its long halflife. I sampled 5 or 6 antidepressants over a 2 week period. Actually, prozac did give me a little bit of difficulty in the first couple days, but not nearly as much as the others. So we went with that one, and it was good to me for 5 years.
Before he retired, I had a psychiatrist who was the Head of Psychiatry at a hospital on the east coast. He also used this strategy to find antidepressants that patients could tolerate right from the beginning. Once those were identified, then longer trials were given.
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