SSRI use as a younster and RE

I've created this as a new topic becaue I think it's needs to be known.

I was given SSRIs(prozac, Paxil) and another drug Imiprine as a teenager by my doctor. Thinking back, I was a virgin but this was around the same time I started not coming alot from masturbation and really used hardcore porn more. I took the drugs for a few months. I was drug free most times after initially trying this drugs for bits at a time.

Anyway, through many girls, gfs, porn,... etc. I could cum most times when I masturbated, but not always and sometimes I would have to really beat it if you know what I mean to cum. I came inside a girl twice in my whole life... once around 23 and then around 32 once.

I ask my doctor about RE and if SSRIs are the reason for it? She says no don't be silly and blames everything on it.

At 34, I am finally given another SSRI called Cipralex(Lexapro), I take it for 4 weeks at 5mg. It makes me feel weird and lose all interest in sex...etc. Usually stuff that SSRs do.

I stop taking the cipralex and have sex with my GF... i cum within 3 minutes. I am floored but just wonder if thats because i never had sex or masturdated in a few days.

Anywaym we have sex again a few days later... same thing... i cum quickly in her. Now i a starting to wonder if the Cipralex actually took my lige long SSRI side effects with it finally from previous drugs. I also start to notice I am peeing better which also gave me issues since i was a teenager.

We have sex 2 days later and i am very crank and tired and not interesed.... I cum in her anyway after say 7-8 minutes of intercourse.

If anyone of you have ever taken or are taking SSRIs/Imprine and have RE issues... please talk to me.

I believe that taking Cipralex and stopping it has 'cured' me.

I was that guy who could never cum, had endless releationships end, avoided real sex and watched porn instead.. etc and etc!

Now i want the real thing more and feel VERY good about myself finally!!!

Hi,

I have been taking Lexapro (isn't it called 'escitalopram' and not 'cipralex'?) for 4+ years now and am sure that it is the cause of my low sex drive. In fact, I raised this issue with my doctor and she agreed with me. I don't know why your doctor denied it, because a low libido is a recognised symptom of SSRI's.

Kevin

You misunderstood my post totally.

I took SSRIs when i was a teen and stopped. The sexual side effect of not being able to ejaculate remained from age 17 to 34.

I took Cipralex(called that in Canada) for a month and stopped taking it, my RE went away after 17 years, along with my urinary hestiancy which I also had since I took SSRIs when I was a teen.

I am truly apologetic to you. Yes, I misread your post, but I'm very surprised by what has happened to you. I don't want to believe that when I come off Lexapro I will continue to have problems with my libido. I can now understand why your doctor said what she did, but I'm also thinking that she can't back it up either. the long-term effects of drugs aren't easily measured, as you can imagine.

Kevin

Chucky wrote:I am truly apologetic to you. Yes, I misread your post, but I'm very surprised by what has happened to you. I don't want to believe that when I come off Lexapro I will continue to have problems with my libido. I can now understand why your doctor said what she did, but I'm also thinking that she can't back it up either. the long-term effects of drugs aren't easily measured, as you can imagine.

Kevin

It's OK no problem

I wouldn't say I always had problems with my libido once I came off SSRIs back when I was younger, but I did continue to have ejaculation problems and trouble peeing intil recently.

I think maybe because i was so young at the time, that SSRIs messed me up and caused long term RE and when I took cipralex(lexapro) recently, it did me a big favor and finally took my SSRI side effects away once i stopped cipralex(lexapro).

There are not many studies into how side effects don't always go away and how SSRI mess people up, esp younger people long term.

To sum up, Cipralex may have cured me. I am still having no problems ejaculating in my GF after 17 years of only being able to get myself off with porn and long masturbation sessions.

I find it very fascinating.

Hi,

I am becoming rather confused now because you seem to be making a distinction between SSRIs and Lexapro. However, as I am aware, Lexapro is a SSRI itself.

Kevin

Chucky wrote:Hi,

I am becoming rather confused now because you seem to be making a distinction between SSRIs and Lexapro. However, as I am aware, Lexapro is a SSRI itself.

Kevin

Yes sorry for the confsuion Lexapro is an SSRI, the last one I have taken that has appeared to take away my original SSRI side effects once stopped.

LOL this is very hard to explain I know.

One sentence to sum this story up:

SSRIs stop many years ago, sexual side effects remained for many years(RE), Lexapro taken for a month and stopped and this SSRI appears to have taken my original SSRI side effects away when stopped like it should have originally.

During all of this taking and not-taking of Lexapro, did your diet habits change by any chance? Diet is very related to libido and such things. My GP always gives me the 'diet' talk whenever I see her.

Chucky wrote:During all of this taking and not-taking of Lexapro, did your diet habits change by any chance? Diet is very related to libido and such things. My GP always gives me the 'diet' talk whenever I see her.

Nope not really... i was pretty normal and drug free for many years while I still suffered from RE and urinary stuff.

17 to say 20 years old, off and on SSRIs(paxil/prozac) and Imiprine.

20 to 34 clean, no SSRIs or any other drugs for that matter but still can't ejaculate or pee right. Otherwise i am fine and healthy.

At 34 one month on cipralex, off it now and can pee and ejaculate normal and i am still on cloud 9.

Basically, if anyone has RE and has a history of taking SSRIs, esp at a young age, maybe they should focus on this as being the cause of their RE.

Something to think about anyway, i believed my RE was from porn and over-masturbation but now I am convinced that some how... SSRIs messed me up ecause i took them at a very young age.

Hey,

This issue is becoming more talked about now because there is a person on the Asperger's Forum who has just started a thread about the exact same thing, except she refers to both her AND her partner in it (both have taken SSRIs). I don't deny that SSRIs could very well be the cause of RE. In fact, I'm convinced about it, just as you are. What do we do though? It's already a recognised side-effect of the drugs - I guess that covers the asses of the pharmaceutical companies who produce them.

Kevin