Re: Threatment of pssd

[Guest guest]

It certainly gives a bit of hope for the rest of us. Did your pssd start after you quit prozac? Also, what was the dosage for prozac and buspar? And when you quit, did you stop suddenly or did you taper off?

Subject: Threatment of pssdTo: SSRIsex Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 4:59 AM

I had persistent sexual problems because of prozac.My gp gave me buspar for this situation after prozac but it didn't help me.Then my ocd got worse and we start to use prozac+buspar and that saved my life.It solved my sexual problems,and I also use buspar higher dosages and that made me hypersexual. I'm off the meds 1.5 years but I'm still hypersexual. It seems like 5-ht2 try to mimic our sexual interest.You can try buspirone+ssri or other combination for a couple of months,and if you quit your sexual desire will be same.You just need to find working combination for your sexual interest,use it a couple of minds and then quit it.

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Hey Tunç,

thanks a lot for your report. I'm glad things have worked out so well for you.

I'd be very grateful if you could answer a couple of questions:

1.) What was the exact dosage of buspar:

- when you first took it without anything else (and it didn't help)

- when you took it with the SSRI

- when you took it with an SSRI and increased the dosage?

2.) What do you mean by " hypersexual " ? More sexual than pre-SSRI?

3.)You had persistent sexual problems after discontinuing the SSRI. Was it

full-blown PSSD (anorgasmia, low sex drive, erectile dysfunction, emotional

numbness)? If so, did the SSRI-buspar combo reverse all those conditions?

Best

teephos

[Guest guest]

I guess you never had PSSD. You just developed sexual problems during

antidepressant use. You are possibly not prone to pssd, if that combination

worked for you even while taking antidepressant. Our case is totally different.

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> I had persistent sexual problems because of prozac.My gp gave me buspar for

this situation after prozac but it didn't help me.Then my ocd got worse and we

start to use prozac+buspar and that saved my life.It solved my sexual

problems,and I also use buspar higher dosages and that made me hypersexual.I'm

off the meds 1.5 years but I'm still hypersexual.It seems like 5-ht2 try to

mimic our sexual interest.You can try buspirone+ssri or other combination for a

couple of months,and if you quit your sexual desire will be same.You just need

to find working combination for your sexual interest,use it a couple of minds

and then quit it.

>

[Guest guest]

If people around here start hopping about like rampant spring bunnies after

taking this deadly combo then the world is a crazier place than I ever imagined.

Kavy

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> I had persistent sexual problems because of prozac.My gp gave me buspar for

this situation after prozac but it didn't help me.Then my ocd got worse and we

start to use prozac+buspar and that saved my life.It solved my sexual

problems,and I also use buspar higher dosages and that made me hypersexual.I'm

off the meds 1.5 years but I'm still hypersexual.It seems like 5-ht2 try to

mimic our sexual interest.You can try buspirone+ssri or other combination for a

couple of months,and if you quit your sexual desire will be same.You just need

to find working combination for your sexual interest,use it a couple of minds

and then quit it.

>

[Guest guest]

I can understand while you feel strongly about this. Any hope for us is good hope, so I hope this combo does work well. Buspar is a very dangerous drug, like all the others, and so I have difficulty believing that adding two dangerous drugs together will make one good one, but if this permantly cures PSSD then it might be worth the risk. My article was a little tongue in cheek because the world is often a very crazy place - let's hope it continues to be so. Perhaps the irreversible damage that Buspar might to do the dopamine receptors, as the doctor in the article below fears, is our cure. I would be very worried about taking this combo myself as I still twitch a bit even after all these years of stopping meds, but don't let me put you off.

A New Non-Addicting, Anti-Anxiety Drug

The anti-anxiety agent, BuSpar, differs from the benzodiazepines in that it has no muscle relaxant or sedative effects. It is not addictive and so is not classified as a controlled substance. BuSpar has a high affinity for serotonin receptors and may affect other neurotransmitters systems.

Again, this drug has never been tested for effectiveness beyond 3 to 4 weeks in controlled trials. The danger of BuSpar causing "acute and chronic change in dopamine-mediated neurological function" hasn't been resolved, according to the 1997 Physicians Desk Reference.

When BuSpar first made its appearance, the manufacturer marketed heavily to alcohol treatment centers because it is common knowledge how anxious and stressed the newly abstinent alcoholic is. Our physician became enamored with prescribing it, even though almost all of our clients either hated the side effects and stopped it immediately, or stopped using BuSpar after their initial ten-day supply ran out. This went on for almost two years before it dawned on me that this drug was failing to deliver much of anything for the high cost of those prescriptions. (Nearly one hundred dollars for an initial supply.)

I am more concerned with the unknown damage from artificially stimulating important brain neurotransmitters. Several years ago we witnessed the cardiovascular destruction done by fenfluramine, the popular prescription diet pill that works by increasing the neurotransmitter serotonin just as BuSpar does.

I hope you are beginning to agree with me that utilizing our bodies natural chemicals rather than drugs, offers a far greater safety net against irreversible mistakes.

Kavy

> > >> > > I had persistent sexual problems because of prozac.My gp gave me buspar for this situation after prozac but it didn't help me.Then my ocd got worse and we start to use prozac+buspar and that saved my life.It solved my sexual problems,and I also use buspar higher dosages and that made me hypersexual.I'm off the meds 1.5 years but I'm still hypersexual.It seems like 5-ht2 try to mimic our sexual interest.You can try buspirone+ssri or other combination for a couple of months,and if you quit your sexual desire will be same.You just need to find working combination for your sexual interest,use it a couple of minds and then quit it.> > >> >>

[Guest guest]

Hey Kavy,

thank you for answering and attaching the interesting comment on Buspar.

I think we're actually much in agreement. I am extremely wary of trying another

chemical cocktail that might cause additional damage. The reason I asked for

more detail was I simply had not heard of Buspar before and was interested to

learn why you're critical of it. Now I know. :-)

Best

teephos

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> > Could you elaborate on that? I mean, we all know what SSRIs can do. It

> seems to me, though, that you think they're even worse when combined

> with Buspar (maybe reading too much into your statement). If so, why do

> you believe that?

> >

> > Best

> > teephos

[Guest guest]

Hey Kavy,

I totally understand where you're coming from. We're all in the same boat. PSSD

is not the only " SSRI present " I got, either, by the way. I suppose that getting

PSSD reflects a general heightened sensitivity to drugs.

Best

teephos

> > > >

> > > > Could you elaborate on that? I mean, we all know what SSRIs can do. It

> > > seems to me, though, that you think they're even worse when combined

> > > with Buspar (maybe reading too much into your statement). If so, why do

> > > you believe that?

> > > >

> > > > Best

> > > > teephos

> >

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