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S*x life on escitalopram

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HoneyLemon29 · 21/01/2023 11:43

Hi. I'm on a prescription for Escitalopram and it's killed my sex life. Both I and my fiancé have a high sex drive and I've been on these pills 2 weeks and it's killed my drive. And when I do try I can't climax when usually this is no problem for me. It's been highly distressing for me. My fiancé is extremely understanding but with the list of anxieties I already have I don't want to be adding another to the list. I feel like so many things I used to enjoy has already been swallowed by depression and the last thing I really enjoy has now gone leaving me in a worse mood now than i was before the pills.
Has anyone else had these struggles and changed medication and it's improved? I don't know what to do.

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NomadicSoul · 26/01/2023 07:47

Hi. I didn't a couple of years in the same pills and had the exact same side effect. It killed my libido and when I did have sex I couldn't climax. I'm the end it killed my relationship which I regret to this day.

I also noted that while on it, I became very angry very quickly for very little reason which is not something that I'd ever done before. I came off the tablets at that point and wish I'd come off then much sooner.

After that, I looked into the side effects of them and discovered that there were an awful lot that these pills could do to you that wasn't good. Since then I've tried every single AD and none have helped and all have had side effects.

These days I use mindfulness, CBT and DBT, exercise, sleep, diet and keeping off alcohol and I'm in a much better place.

Coming off this pills, I got my sex drive back and could climax again. It is definitely the pills doing this to you.

NomadicSoul · 26/01/2023 07:48

Spent not didn't... Why has this no edit function?

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