I used to be able to get sexually aroused at just a thought. Now that I'm taking these meds including Lexapro it's very hard to tell if I'm aroused or not. I can only tell if I'm wet if I stick my finger all up in between the lips. Then when that happens it takes a long time to get clitoral stimulation. I used to be able to feel so aroused that I wanted to crawl on my hands and knees like an animal towards my object of sexual fantasy. Now I'm lucky if I masturbate once a month. I remember a time in which I used to do that every single day. I remember before I got a dildo using a hairbrush handle. Now if I use anything inside it hurts. This sucks. I can't enjoy sexual thought hardly at all anymore.
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seer said on Jan 27, 2009....
aww that sucks! -
pusscat said on Jan 27, 2009....
Hello darker. One theme I read so often here from my SC friends across the ocean is about the side effects of medication they take for depression, anxiety, bipolar etc. (I have bipolar and depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder). I have had meds that gave me really bad mood swings i.e taking an anti depressant alone for bipolar. I've had meds that stole my libido too. What I would like to say is please, please don't believe you have to live your life on a drug that tries to cure you of one thing but takes away something else. Unless someone loses their libido they honestly don't understand how it feels. It is often not just the libido - passion for life can dwindle. Enthusiasm for anything jumps out of the window. Does any of that sound familiar.
So many doctors prescribed the same as their colleagues when really every patient is different. There are so many types of meds out there it is amazing what they can all do. I know it is also easy to almost give up on thinking you will ever find a med that suits you but please keep trying, I did and now I am on a med that has actually been out for years in the UK, Lafepramine (you don't always need the new ones) and a mood stabilizer called Depakote.
Without mentioning any names, a friend here on SC read my advice and eventually changed her GP and insisted on getting the meds that were right for her and it has dramatically changed her life.
The best of luck. Don;t give up - you have the right to live a full and happy life :)
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seer said on Jan 28, 2009....
Are you sure the sexual side is medically related, I mean could it be psychoscematic? (Scuse the spelling) -
darkerthanlight said on Jan 30, 2009....
pusscat, that does sound familiar, yet, I have had a loss of interest in "life" for longer than I've been taking lexapro. I used to take depakote. I just recently got weened off of it because it was making me ill. I notice the difference already.seer, after being raped and sodomized at different times, by different men, I guess some of it could be psychosomatic. I know you said excuse your spelling, but I find it amuzing that you used the word scematic. Properly spelled, that would be schematic- an electronic circuit or group there of's blueprint. I just figured I would share. -
PieterOpie said on Feb 14, 2009....
I have been taking medication that has had the effect of totally suppressing my libido. That may sound rather bad and for many it would be, but I have found it to be a real bonus. The number of nights spent in some gay dive hoping to meet some guy who suited my overly fussy standards are more numerous than I care to remember. To make things even harder I would then expect them to do all the work by coming to me to chat me up, because I was too pathetic to risk rejection, I was completely useless at getting laid.
So when the desire for "it" became no more than a dim memory I soon realised I had been released from this gruelling and frustrating ordeal. I WAS FREE!!! FREE AT LAST!!!!!
Now many years later it has actually healed over and I am once again a virgin...... A BORN-AGAIN VIRGIN!!!!
BUT it does not end there.... Oh No!!!
The very same medications that stole my sex life also caused me to gain weight; a lot of it. So whereas I used to console myself by going home alone I still had a rather nice person with a decent taut body to play with once I got there.... Me.
Even that is no longer the case. Too FAT now.... So not only do I not feel like playing with it, and it is no longer any fun when I manage to do so, but I have to exert a considerable amount of effort to find the fucking thing!!!! I haven't seen it for ages and it may in fact no longer be there. I expect there to be no more than a slight discolouration and a tiny hole for the expulsion of pee.
For the sake of domestic peace and sanitation I chose to sit down like the girly-pants I seem to have become. -sigh-
But I am free..... in fact... I am FREE TO ANYONE WHO'LL HAVE ME!!!!
kill me..... kill me now......... (there is sex in heaven, isn't there??????)
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seer said on Feb 15, 2009....
We're not going to heaven. Once I commited all 7 deadly sins at ONCE in a kebab shop. Look at who's in/going to hell - Metallica, Iron Maiden, stripper chicks (and guys Pieter). Heaven will be full of do-gooders and Cliff Richard.
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PieterOpie said on Feb 15, 2009....
CLIFF RICHARD!!!!???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! HELL NO!!!!
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seer said on Feb 15, 2009....
lol, just for the record, I think the world is a safer place with you feeling sexually numb! -
PieterOpie said on Feb 15, 2009....
Undoubtedly..... Imagine the legal bills alone. (gasp!)
It's better this way. MUCH better.... This...this... m..ma...madness stops with me.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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seer said on Feb 15, 2009....
Lol, I can just imagine a superhero saying 'at last, the world is safe, from the rampagining libido of PieterOpie....' -
PieterOpie said on Feb 15, 2009....
Hmmm.... there's a movie in there somewhere.
A strange teen,sci-fi, horror, romance for colege student..... yesssss.... hehe [drool]
I'd like that..... [slobber] hmmmmmmm......t-e-e-n-s........ mmmmmmm.......
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seer said on Feb 15, 2009....
I think you need a cold shower my Opie!
I know I won't sleep soundly tonight, the thought of waking up feeling a moist, warm, penis in my ear (shudders). Scary stuff....
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PieterOpie said on Feb 15, 2009....
Did you mean "ear" or " rear"? A careless typo can make all the difference between true love and a slight misunderstanding. -
pusscat said on Feb 15, 2009....
Ha ha ha! Jeez - you two are killing my ribs here!!!!
"Did you mean "ear" or "rear"?" ha ha ha!
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PieterOpie said on Feb 15, 2009....
Don't laugh... it wouldn't be the first time I got the two mixed up. -
seer said on Feb 15, 2009....
Yeah, the confusion is why I'm why I'm afraid.... -
PieterOpie said on Feb 15, 2009....
well naturally..... But really, there's no need to be afraid at all. I know the limitations set by straight men. Well, all the ones I have had sex with anyway....
When you stop and think you know a penis is never going to fit in someone's ear, right? Right.
I can respect that.
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seer said on Feb 15, 2009....
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Yes, I'm very confident in my sexuality. And more confident that you don't know my address, and even more confident knowing you are far, far away.
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PieterOpie said on Feb 15, 2009....
I LOVE a teaser..... you devil you. kissy kissy...... -
darkerthanlight said on Mar 07, 2009....
LMFAO ya'll. -
Misty_Eyed said on Jun 08, 2009....
well...from personal experience, yes meds make it harder to get aroused or reach that same state you might experience otherwise. but so does being seriously depressed and thinking about suicide a lot of the time! I guess it helps that I have a great partner I'm actually in love with and who understands the whole medication issue. I'd have to say that I have a great sex life now that I'm less depressed (whether it's by myself or with my special someone else).and certain meds can actually help you lose weight more easily instead of gaining it. : ) your doctor could steer you in the right direction there (though not everybody responds well to the same meds, and even the ones that work for you at first can become ineffective over time). : (
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