Re: Re: possible solutions

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I was on paxil for a couple of months first. I told my doctor about sexual side effects and he suggested I try prozac (in hindsight, supremely dumb advice). I switched from paxil to prozac with no washout, and as the paxil left my body I had withdrawal effects, and my sexual function returned almost to normal -- all this with prozac in my system. It took about another month for it to disappear with prozac. Strange because on paxil the sexual side effects were immediate and severe--I remember having an orgasm on day 2 that felt more like a burst of fear than pleasure--while on prozac they were delayed. For me it demonstrates that the main effect of SSRIs, i.e. to raise serotonin in the synapse, is not what causes sexual dysfunction per se (and also not the only

cause behind withdrawal once stopped) but that some other properties of the drug perhaps play a role as well. What those properties are I don't know, but might have to do with how they're metabolized differently, or in other words how the body responds to them differently. Very vague, that's just a guess. To: SSRIsex Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:18 PM Subject: Re: possible solutions

That's a good point. I'm sometimes active on the newspaper onlinecomment sections but I have always been wary of saying you might getPSSD even from just one dose. Could it be that such people have taken alot of medications in the past which did much of the damage but the newantidepressant was the last straw? This is important to find out.I was on Paroxetine (Paxil, Seroxat) for about 4 months and I hadtrouble reaching orgasm, but when I did it was a bit of an explosion -very intense. Still, I got fed up with it so my doctor put me onnefazodone which doesn't affect sex drive, so they say, and it didn'tfor about 2 months but then all of a sudden my sex drive just vanishedin a week. I was on the smallest dose and so could not cut down so Istopped cold turkey and my body went berzerk with twitching. After 3days I saw my chemist who advised me to go back on it and cut downslowly which I did by

cutting the tablets up with a sharp knife. After 2months I was on 10mg (1/10 of a tablet) when my sex drive vanishedagain. I wish I had stayed cold turkey.Kv> > > >> > > > I noticed that the survey has questions about smoking,depression, anxiety, alcohol, etc..> > > > From my experience, these are the scapegoats that quacks claimsexual problems were caused by after giving the drugs. Even though Inever experienced the drug side effect until the day I was given thedrug, they pretend that the drug they give has no side effects. Ifyou've ever had a single beer even 6 or 12 months prior, the quacks willblame it on that. Or if you are a light smoker, the quacks will blame iton that. It's the same scam they use for Nueroleptic Malignant Syndrome(NMS). The quacks will say that it was the flu, and cover up the medicaltest proving NO flu and the test proving NMS. Even if you've never hadsexual dysfunction before being drugged, even during spells of sadnessor anxiety, the quacks

will blame it on that.> > > > In fact, I have never seen a shred of scientific proof thatsadness or a cigarette or a beer will cause years and years of endlesssexual dysfunction. Obviously it's non-sense, as opposed to scientificfact.> > > >> > > > Given these facts, and seeing the survey has these questions..> > > > I am not feeling confident that the final analysis will stronglyimplicate the SSRI drugs. I assume at least one study author knows theissue very well. I wonder if we will continue to see the same fraudafter the study is complete. As of now, the classic hallmarks are inplace. And for the sake of posterity, I answered that I do not smoke,drink, feel depressed or anxious, since I know that in my case, thesethings have nothing to do with PSSD or PNSD.> > > >> > >>

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