Acid reflux medication and orgasms

[SashaPearce]

I’ve seen on here people posting that anti-depressants can affect your ability to orgasm, but I was just wondering if anyone had had a similar experience with acid reflux medication?

I was on Ranitidine for a year and completely lost my ability to orgasm (having not had any trouble before). Ranitidine was then taken off the market for unrelated reasons and I was switched to Lansaprazole, after a while I began to be able to have orgasms again but they are mostly so rubbish and weak compared to what they used to be. I’ve now been completely off medication for about 8 months but they haven’t gone back to normal. I barely feel pleasure and it can actually feel quite uncomfortable, as if I’m very tired. The only reason I know it’s an orgasm is because of the muscular spasm. My arousal in general is so much weaker, it’s like I’m feeling things through a veil. I can feel the increased blood flow and beating heart of arousal but I don’t feel pleasure.

Has anyone else experienced this with this medication? I asked the GP but she said she’d never heard of that as a side effect for women (even though they do mention that it can be a side effect for men and I don’t really see why it would be different?) I’ve seen people on here say that some people don’t get their former arousal back after anti-depressants, and I’m worrying that that could be the case with this. It feels like such a loss in my life.

Oh Bugger!
@SashaPearce Thank you for posting this, I just did not know that it can affect men.
I do read data sheets but missed that,

@Forthistopic if you’re worried about it do check it out with your GP but don’t just take my word for it as I was mainly focused on women, I can’t remember if it said anything about a potential side effect for men in the patient leaflet that comes with the medication or whether it was just something that I read online afterwards (and of course online sources may not be reliable).

My guess is the GP would say they have to mention every potential side effect under the sun in the patient leaflet just to cover themselves, even if it’s only 1 in 10,000 people that had it. And obviously it’s really important to take your acid reflux medication if you need it, worst case scenario AR can be linked to cancer and other things you don’t want if it’s not treated. I don’t know for sure that it’s the medication that’s caused my issues with arousal but I’m wondering if it is, that’s why I wanted to post here to see if anyone else had had a similar experience.

There is a massive lack of evidence about how women are affected sexually by drugs. Like most other things the standard seems to be men and women are an afterthought.

I worked for a period cup designer for a while and we found that there is no data, none at all, about the length/shape of an "average vagina". Think how much we know about cock sizes, yet this info/data is just not there for women.

So don't assume that if it's not on the side effects leaflet that women don't get side effects, it probably means no tests were done on women specifically.