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After Antidepressants, a Loss of Sexuality
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/health/antidepressants-ssri-sexual-dysfunction.html
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Now, a small but vocal group of patients is speaking out about severe sexual problems that have endured even long after they stopped taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the most popular type of antidepressants.
Until proven otherwise, that’s what it is,” said Dr. Anita Clayton, the chief of psychiatry at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and a leader of an expert group that will meet in Spain next year to formally define the condition.
A recent study in Israel reported that about one in 216 men who discontinued S.S.R.I.s were subsequently prescribed medications for erectile dysfunction, a rate at least three times as high as that among the general population.
And when many patients report similar problems — like the distinctive symptom of genital numbness — the signal should not be dismissed, said Dr. Jonathan Alpert, head of the American Psychiatric Association’s research council.
In 2018, dozens of patients and doctors petitioned regulators in Europe and the United States to add warnings about the risk of persistent sexual problems to drug labels, spurring the European Medicines Agency to do so the following year.
For Dr. Bahrick, who has continued to publish research on the topic, the recent recognition of her condition is cold comfort, considering the unknown number of people who have lost a core experience of being human.
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