Depression Medication Trigger Sexual Problems

Depression Medication Trigger Sexual Problems ImageWhen talking about the side effects of medications taking to heal a depression mostly will think about headaches or stomach problems or insomnia, but less thought about sexual problems, because for some people depression is causing another depression. Have you realize that at least 50 percent of people taking antidepressants in the class of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors can have a sexual problems as the side effects of the medications taken, such as loss experience aroused and orgasm difficulties. The incidence of sexual dysfunction with various of antidepressants medication is very different due to the methods of collecting such data.

Recent study published in which patients with new antidepressants medication, taking into account that the incidence of sexual side effects in the product labeling for the new drugs is about 15 percent, but when asked directly, 70 percent of patients reported having a sexual dysfunction. The cause of this problem is unclear, but if you are diagnosed with depression and taking antidepressants which trigger sexual side effects as described above, you should ask an advise from the doctor that giving depression medication. The significance of this is that your doctor may adjust your medication or change the medication if possible, so you can continue to require anti-depressants which not trigger a sexual problems and disrupt your sexual activity.

This problem is not as easy as it seen at the first sight, that depressed patients with a sexual dysfunction causing by depression medication lead to non-compliance with the antidepressant consumpted which could create the higher state of difficultness for the depression.

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