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Michelle
Holly Springs, NC
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I've been reading people comments on this drug. I just started taking citalopram 20mg and it got me scared just by reading these comments. I know that everyone is different but i dont want this drug to take away my sex drive i don't want to lose my husband. I'm already having problems in bed from being depressed but i still perform well in bed. I want to ge better and take this medication but im scared. I even got a job and i still dont feel complete like i should be. So do anyone really thinks that this medicine will help me.
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luisduo
Scarborough, Canada
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Michelle wrote: I've been reading people comments on this drug. I just started taking citalopram 20mg and it got me scared just by reading these comments. I know that everyone is different but i dont want this drug to take away my sex drive i don't want to lose my husband. I'm already having problems in bed from being depressed but i still perform well in bed. I want to ge better and take this medication but im scared. I even got a job and i still dont feel complete like i should be. So do anyone really thinks that this medicine will help me. Know one can answer that question for you. Some people have had success with it, some haven't. I've been on it for almost 3 years, and have felt better emotionally and mentally. But at the same time I am bit numb when it comes to sex, can perform well but do feel somewhat removed from myself. How long have you been on the medication? You should give yourself a month before you decide whether or not it's right for you.
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luisduo
Scarborough, Canada
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Good grief, need to proof read. That should read "No one". Had a bit of brain freeze. ;)
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MikeG
La Crescenta, CA
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Michelle wrote: I've been reading people comments on this drug. I just started taking citalopram 20mg and it got me scared just by reading these comments. I know that everyone is different but i dont want this drug to take away my sex drive i don't want to lose my husband. I'm already having problems in bed from being depressed but i still perform well in bed. I want to ge better and take this medication but im scared. I even got a job and i still dont feel complete like i should be. So do anyone really thinks that this medicine will help me. These medications can be very dangerous, and you are wise to be scared. Do they help? Maybe, but to me it seems quite possible that they do more harm than good in the long term. You can check out the yahoo group called SSRISex to read plenty of stories from people whose lives have been devastated because of these drugs. My advice to anyone considering starting (or continuing) these medications: read about other people's horror stories and then ask yourself just how bad your situation is. If you can tough it out without drugs, you should really consider that. EVERY drug has undesirable side effects - even aspirin can give you stomach ulcers. And these drugs directly affect your brain. Do you really want side effects (potentially permanent) affecting the body part that makes you who you are more than anything else? Best to try other things first: get lots of exercise, eat healthy, establish and nurture positive and supportive relationships, and get regular solid sleep. These things will do more for you and will NOT cause potentially irreparable damage to your mind. Best of luck!
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bka
Germany
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normally doctors should tell about risks .....
i took these meds and it was the biggest mistake in my life !
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Anna
Bryn Mawr, PA
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I have also been having sexual side effects from Citalopram, and I'm only on a 20mg dose. I've been taking it since October/November. I've been experiencing an almost complete disinterest in sex, and my orgasms have effectively stopped. I'm only 20 years old, this is supposed to be the prime of my sex life. I have talked about this with my psychiatrist and she has suggested putting me on Wellbutrin to counteract these effects. Has anyone else had experience with combining anti-depressants to get ride of negative side effects?
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MikeG
La Crescenta, CA
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Judged:
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Anna wrote: I have also been having sexual side effects from Citalopram, and I'm only on a 20mg dose. I've been taking it since October/November. I've been experiencing an almost complete disinterest in sex, and my orgasms have effectively stopped. I'm only 20 years old, this is supposed to be the prime of my sex life. I have talked about this with my psychiatrist and she has suggested putting me on Wellbutrin to counteract these effects. Has anyone else had experience with combining anti-depressants to get ride of negative side effects? Oh, boy. Here we go. This is the standard response of psychiatrists. "Oh, you're having this problem? Here, try this other drug to combat that issue." Ugh. Yes, Wellbutrin may help you - it does help some people with that issue. But again, what new side effects will taking another medication cause?? I really recommend everyone who reads this post go to the Yahoo group SSRISex. Just read some of the stories and posts from people on there. For many, taking Wellbutrin actually compounded their problem. Think about it: the fact that you're having issues on this drug is the problem. The solution should not be to take more drugs. Psychiatrists seem to love pushing this stuff onto people because it's an easy solution for them. But these medications are dangerous - they affect your brain. If it was only a controlled positive effect, that would be great, but NOT A SINGLE medication works that way. Our bodies are extremely complex, and NO researcher, NO scientist, NO doctor, and NO psychiatrist knows how everything is connected. If they did, people would not have these kinds of awful side effects. Sorry to be so gloomy, but again, go visit the SSRISex site and read some of the stories yourself. These drugs can have long lasting terrible effects on your sexuality. The hopeful news for you is that almost everybody on these meds has significant sexual side effects, and many people return to normal after they come off the drug. Some don't. My advice is to very slowly wean yourself off of it and then stay away from SSRI's in the future. Find another way to deal with your depression or anxiety - eat better, drink water, exercise a lot, work on good relationships, even change your job or move if you have to. Just try healthy solutions rather than drugs. You don't want to have your brain and sexuality permanently messed up. Trust me. Best of luck you to, Anna. I hope you are able to return to a healthy state!
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martin
Brackley, UK
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Well I have bipolar amoungst other health problems I take a lot of medicines 1 being citlopram and some time I can try to ejaculate for hours and am sick of them now but if i dont take them I feel so sad and low try having se with other people instead of your parner i found this works he he I no they make you very tired and some of you say you cannot sleep but a zoplicone tablet makes me sleep but i wake up a lot feeling very hungry so i eat as am half asleep and fall over as i fel drunk
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female experience
Weaverville, NC
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Changed from lexapro to citalopram. I have had the most intense sex drive I have ever had. I feel arroused all the time, sometimes it is annoying. I've never been able to have multiple orgasms and now I can. Its the strangest think ever
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amber
Elkin, NC
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My husband and I are both on Celexa for about a year (how lucky is that, I know) and although our sex life is much less intense and frequent than it once was, we do have very fulfilling sex, and are both able to reach orgasm without too much trouble. It is different for everyone - it is a lot of work to keep trying drugs to see what works and how, but give it al least a month to decide.
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bad business
Jamestown, KY
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i'm a man who started taking citalopram at the recommendation of a doctor... having tried an anti-depressent years before i was wary of the decline in sexual desire. well, that's what happened. decline and then it was hard as hell to get off. i was single yet still masterbating was a joyful experience in life.
so i stopped after a month and a half.... it was then that i noticed another problem. no longer was i getting a 'raging' hard on. NOW it's been over a month i've stopped and i my erections suck. i am so fucking pissed about this. i look online and find out there is post-ssri sexual dysfunction in a few percent.... and that it could last months, years or forever. i'm so mad as i even write this i just want to rip the shit out of the doctors office.
so, pay attention to the possible side effects. so much for fucking anti-depressants, they've robbed me of a pleasure in life, and now i'm in a relationship and the experience isn't nearly as good as it could be if i could keep a fucking hard on.
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bad business
Jamestown, KY
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MikeG wrote: <quoted text>
Oh, boy. Here we go. This is the standard response of psychiatrists. "Oh, you're having this problem? Here, try this other drug to combat that issue." Ugh.
Yes, Wellbutrin may help you - it does help some people with that issue. But again, what new side effects will taking another medication cause?? I really recommend everyone who reads this post go to the Yahoo group SSRISex. Just read some of the stories and posts from people on there. For many, taking Wellbutrin actually compounded their problem. Think about it: the fact that you're having issues on this drug is the problem. The solution should not be to take more drugs. Psychiatrists seem to love pushing this stuff onto people because it's an easy solution for them. But these medications are dangerous - they affect your brain. If it was only a controlled positive effect, that would be great, but NOT A SINGLE medication works that way. Our bodies are extremely complex, and NO researcher, NO scientist, NO doctor, and NO psychiatrist knows how everything is connected. If they did, people would not have these kinds of awful side effects. Sorry to be so gloomy, but again, go visit the SSRISex site and read some of the stories yourself. These drugs can have long lasting terrible effects on your sexuality.
The hopeful news for you is that almost everybody on these meds has significant sexual side effects, and many people return to normal after they come off the drug. Some don't. My advice is to very slowly wean yourself off of it and then stay away from SSRI's in the future. Find another way to deal with your depression or anxiety - eat better, drink water, exercise a lot, work on good relationships, even change your job or move if you have to. Just try healthy solutions rather than drugs. You don't want to have your brain and sexuality permanently messed up. Trust me.
Best of luck you to, Anna. I hope you are able to return to a healthy state! you said it! read my post above this one.
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MikeG
La Crescenta, CA
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bad business wrote: <quoted text>
you said it! read my post above this one. Yep. And when you speak with doctors about it, they'll likely tell you that the effects you're experiencing can't be a result of the SSRI, because the side effects of those meds go away after you stop taking them. Right.
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Confused
Peebles, UK
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debbie wrote: my boyfriend has been on Citalopram for nearly 5 years, and when we met 6 months ago he was on quite a high dose and warned me it took him ages to ejaculate, like an hour or more, and it did, if at all. Like other people have said on here...when it eventually happened it was quite intense. Because he was bothered I would get fed up he went to the Doctor's who lessened his dose, and gradually over 6 months he came down to 10mg and has now finally come off them but unfortunately is suffering with the horrendous side-effects of withdrawal but on the ejaculation front, the less dose he was having the quicker he came.
Now we have a another problem, he is coming too quick, well in his eyes he is, a few minutes, makes me look good and it really doesnt bother me but he's getting quite upset about it. I'm just guessing that because these drugs are inhibitors, he is now quite sensitive in body and mind and I'm seeing it as another withdrawal symptom, he took his last one two weeks ago.
He said pre-citalopram days he never had this problem.
Has anyone else had this problem and if so, is it just a temporary thing until his body gets back on track?
Thanks for any replies Im having this very proble, exact same.Before sex was great, great feeling stronger erections, lasted longer and the orgasms were insanly good. Now I sometimes last seconds. Never happened pre citalopram.
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Travis
Indianapolis, IN
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I just switched from 40mg of paxil to 40mg of celexa
i had to get off paxil because i kept getting fatter and fatter (60 pounds in 7 months) hopefully celexa doesnt have that same side affect. BUT paxil also delayed my ejaculation which i LOVE so i can last longer than a minute in bed now.. i hope celexa will have that same sexual side affect for me
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Marty
Phuket, Thailand
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I'm a relatively long term user of citalopram (20mg) compared to most of the people here. I've been on it for about 6 years! I'm only just 27. But the whole time I've struggled with ejaculation during sex. I've long thought delayed ejaculation can be caused by things other than just anti-depressents though and this may partly explain why I haven't left citalopram yet. As the problem has gotten no better though and as i read more and more about how this drug seems to affect other peoples ejaculation, I realize that I have to change drugs or get off the stuff. I just hope my weiner still works properly once I'm off it, as the idea that long-term usage of citalopram could have permanent effects is scary.
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MikeG
Simi Valley, CA
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Marty, I don't know if switching is a good idea. It seems like a lot of people who have permanent (or at least ongoing) problems after stopping have taken multiple SSRIs. And honestly, if you're affected sexually by one, you'll probably be affected by the others. Delayed ejaculation is a VERY common side effect of all these drugs. That side effect is actually one of the main reasons I stopped taking the first SSRI I was on (Paxil). I weaned myself off of Paxil over a month or so, and the side effects gradually went away. And then I foolishly started citalopram years later. I should have never touched another one of those drugs again.
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matty54
Leicester, UK
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I have been on them 2 years i hate the things made me a zombie! i stuggled to ejaculate on them! Now i have weined myself off them I last minutes!! very frustrating!! everything was normal before sex was good slightly embarrasing now hope things improve!! I am 25 btw
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Sam12
Rugeley, UK
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I was on Citalopram for a couple of months last year.
I had trouble ejaculating and also got an ache in my left testicle. My doctor checked it out and said there was no problem down there. I now wonder if the two things were connected.
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