To begin, I never had a problem cumming early. I was always bale to get girls to orgasm before I did. Now I'm taking Lexapro for depression, and I last a ton longer. One of the side effects of Lexapro is 'trouble coming to orgasm', and I guess that's taken effect. I can orgasm, and it's wonderful, but now my current girl used words like 'oh my god', and 'your crazy!' Also, since I need to fuck longer and harder I seem to be coming harder. It's really great. There seems to be more actual semen when I cum now, will the amount of spew change the longer your actually aroused? Oh and by the way, the Lexapro is also making me feel a ton better. It's doing it's job too.
I was on it for a couple months a few years ago for PTSD and I hated it. I was sooo pathetic towards everything in the world and was really selfish. I also had no sex drive and was always tired
Sorry to hear it didn't work well for you. Did you find the right one yet? I'm really glad it's helping me out, because it's the first one we tried.
Lexapro is an SSRI antidepressant. One associated side-effect is difficulty achieving orgasm -- not an issue for everyone, but for some. It's also a pretty specific problem when people have it, in that it isn't erectile dysfunction; guys can get hard okay, but it's reaching an orgasm that's a problem.
I'm on wellbutrin for adhd and it helped my bouts with ptsd as well. I have too much extra energy on it and can't sleep, but it's worth it.
ps-I am glad lexapro is working for you. I do know people who have done great on it, especially people with both depression and bad anxiety. HUGS
I started on Paxil 3 years and was switched to Lexapro after about a year. I take it for anxiety and panic attacks. I HATE that it makes it harder for me to orgazm AND my sex frequency has diminished as well. But it does really help my anxiety/panic attacks. Now I jack about once a week instead of 3-4 times a week...
I used Lexapro for several months and it was terrible, it made me even more depressed(as it does for most people) and made it almost impossible to orgasm, it helped my anxiety a bit but not by much. After dealing with the weight loss(that I didn't want), nausea, headaches, the insane drowsiness, and the fact that it made me not only more depressed but lowered my mood and made me sadder in general, I did the research and realized, none of these pills are gonna do anything to make me better. I stopped taking all medications and focused on making the changes in my life that I needed to be happy, and I'm far better now than I've ever been on some shitty pill, my depression is completely gone and it's very rare for me to have any issues with anxiety but they show up every once in a while. As far as I'm concerned all these antidepressants don't do anything but make a buck for the drug companies and give people false hope, the only one that helped me even a bit was wellbutrin, which gave me a seizure, twice, that's a nice size effect... Oh by the way, if you feel comfortable taking these medications, you probably won't after you realize there have been no studies on the long term effects of fucking with your brain chemistry in the way they do, or that doctors don't even understand how these medications work, though for everyone I've known that has taken such medications, they don't work. Although I can't say for sure that it was the lexarpo that caused this, the doctors couldn't come up with any other explanation at what caused this, but at the same time I was taking it, I got violently ill and was constantly puking and I couldn't eat anything, and whenever I'd go to the hospital they couldn't find anything wrong, this went on for almost a month and during that time it was usually several days between meals and sometimes I could drink fluids and sometimes I couldn't and had to be put on an IV to keep me hydrated quite often. Now I know that stomach problems can be caused by lexapro and while I can't say that's what caused it for certain, I don't see what else would do that...
Hah, never used Lexapro, but drugs in general make me last longer, opiates and barbiturates especially (although not in high doses cause then sex is the LAST thing on my mind). Probably this is due to the numbing effect of opiates and the dissociative quality of barbs (ESPECIALLY ketamine), either way I can go for maybe 30-40 minutes constant banging, no orgasm. Strange, but it seems to satisfy the little lady
Yeah last night I was privilaged enough to fuck a co-worker of mine. She came twice in almost an hour, but we had to stop before I was able to cum. I ressured her that she was extremly sexy (and she was), but I was taking medication that had the strange side effect. She udnerstood and didn't mind, because she got hers... twice oh and I've been taking lexapro for almots 4 weeks now and I feel fantastic. It has changed my quality of life, and it's working for me.
Well I'm doing well on it after a year or so. I was able to orgazm this morning. Lexipro DOES work for me, without it I would have been fired long ago for my bad attitude/mouth. I would get verbally pissed off about almost anything that would make me nervous. Never physically. It calms me down considerably. They don't just "make a buck" for the companies, they DO INDEED help a lot of us. As far as long term effects go I think they're fine, doctors know WHAT they do NOW and that is what helps me NOW. My theory is they temporarily alter brain chemistry and (hopefully) if and when the drug is stopped (slowly) the brain goes back to normal function. I'm no doctor but that MY theory. I'm sure they've tested these drugs enough to know. Sorry it didn't work for you (it's not for everyone) but it does help ME and many more like me....
And if a few years down the road they find that they cause brain damage, will you still feel that way? It's weird that you mention them calming you and keeping you from getting angry like you would have, when I was on them I was a complete dick to everyone and an extremely angry person, and that's not me, I would freak out on everyone for the littlest thing. The reason I stopped taking them was at one point I was like hey, do I really wanna be popping pills to mask my problems? Because at the end of the day, they're still there, pills or not. I don't want some pill fucking with my brain in ways nobody understands. I don't believe depression is just a chemical imbalance on it's own, the chemical imbalance is caused by emotion, and I'd rather fix the problem at it's source than pop a pill and call it fixed. I've had very severe depression so I know how bad it is, but if you feel that a pill can fix all your problems you're sadly mistaken. Do you even realize how bad these things are for your health?
Without medications a LOT pf people (BIG understatement) would be dead today. I'm not saying ALL meds can fix everyone's problems. But a lot of them CAN. You are ASSUMING all medications are bad for your health. Care to list the ones that really ARE? Tom
Antidepressants statistically make people more suicidal than without them, and meds don't fix problems, they cover them up. Look up info on any antidepressant, they're not good for you at all.
It's the incorrect USAGE and/or the addtion of alcohol and or OTHER drugs that causes problems, the suicides come AFTER a patent STOPS taking their medication or in combination of usuage with other drugs or alcohol. You can't just stop taking these meds which most of these people do. There are warnings on the med fact sheets. They're there for a reason. Used correctly these medicines help the majority of patients.
Two thoughts: 1) A drug that works for some people is a mess for others. So yes, Lexapro does make some people... and can make other worse. 2) Re: Suicidality. Two issues. First, it is well known that people coming out of a very severe depression can be suicidal, and in fact they might not be able to act on it when at the absolute bottom of a depression but can get up enough drive to go through with it as they first start to come out. If a drug helps bring someone out, of course there's that suicide risk. The other issue is that some classes of anti-depressants have the potential to send someone with bipolar disorder into a manic episode. if someone's first presentation with bipolar is a depressive episode, they may unknowingly be sent into a manic episode during which they commit suicide. So the suicide issue is VERY complex and not simply a matter of drugs making people do it.
