A friend of mine became infertile from taking Seroxat (Paxil) for 14 years. He also lost his hair, and most of his quality of life. It is an absolute outrage that this disgustingly defective drug is still on the market. BAN IT NOW!

I had the snip [vasectomy] some years ago. I could have saved myself the indignity of getting my meat and two veg out for the surgeon!

Fid

"Every Sperm is Sacred!"...

Besides, if you get rid of the sperm.... it makes swallowing so much harder.....It really tastes bad if that is missing....

Yeah, I am so hypersexual and manic right now.

But it is a sobering thought that what we put in our bodies can destroy and damage sperm and eggs. They should have black box warnings for this too.

I am surprised there haven't been more drug implicated in damaging reproductive DNA. There are so MANY different natural and man-made compounds which bind and influence DNA, that it is amazing we are even able to reproduce successfully. Successful reproduction by itself is such a crap shoot, that is why there are so many unsuccessful conceptions to begin with.

International Brand Names

* Aropax (LU, MX)
* Aropax 20 (AR, AU, BE, BR, PY, UY, ZA)
* Aroxat (CN)
* Deroxat (CH, FR)
* Divarius (FR)
* Euplix (DE)
* Extine (AU)
* Loxamine (AU, NZ)
* Parosenin (KP)
* Parotin (HK)
* Parox (KP)
* Paroxet (PE)
* Paxan (CO)
* Paxetil (KP)
* Paxil (BB, BM, BS, BZ, CR, DO, GT, GY, HN, JM, MX, NI, NL, PA, SR, SV, TT)
* Paxil CR (CR, DO, GT, HN, KP, NI, PA, SV)
* Paxtine (AU)
* Paxxet (IL)
* Rexetin (BB, BM, BS, BZ, GY, JM, NL, PL, SR, TT)
* Seroxat (AE, AT, BD, BF, BG, BH, BJ, CI, CL, CO, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EG, ES, ET, FI, GB, GH, GM, GN, HK, HN, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IQ, IR, IT, JO, JP, KE, KP, KW, LB, LR, LU, LY, MA, ML, MR, MU, MW, MY, NE, NG, NL, NO, OM, PE, PH, PK, PL, PT, QA, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SL, SN, SY, TH, TN, TW, TZ, UG, YE, ZA, ZM, ZW)
* Seroxat CR (SG)
* Setine (TW)
* Tagonis (DE)
* XET (IN)
* Xetine-P (TW)

Why do they change the brand names like this?

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine is also concerned with men who became impotent even after off the drug.
Lowered libido and anorgasmia are common side effects that both men and women can have even when they quit the drug.
Even sexual fantasies are changed as reported by men and women on http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ssrisex/
PSSD is already on Wikipedia.
Just to remember. It's already common knowledge for those who are here.

Has any mag, let's say Times or Newsweek, ever had any article on this tiny little problem?

I bet they said it was "psychological" and has nothing to due with SSRIs!:)

Therapy before anti-depressant?
Psychiatry has turned therapy into a joke. And some psychology ideas are linked to psychiatry.
What a mess!

Totally Off-Topic: I was talking to a biologist today and she told me that autism has to due with... wheat flour and some other things that causes I don't remember what on stomach that... she said that the problem is related only with speech not an mental impairment.
I'll wait for the links she'll send me.
She knows it all! All about this crazy medication.
An amazing woman that...
Sorry Philip!

I know, I know I have a blog but if I say it here everybody can read.

Sorry Philip!

I was told my inability to orgasm once starting AD's was psychological...

I'm one of the lucky folk who recovered completely from that ill once getting off the offending medications thank god...

I'm not entirely recovered from doctors telling me my problem was frigidity. And denying what I knew was the truth...

I hate to say it, but when I say this post I laughed! I thought one more fucking nail in the SSRI coffin...bring the death on...

This is certainly interesting, and I look forward to reading the full article once it is published for a fuller assessment. However, offhand this is a small sample (35 subjects) with no placebo group, which means that it is a good initial investigation, but is hardly conclusive. Also, if the results can be replicated with larger RCT's, then that would certainly change how I would present the risks associated with SSRI's to my patients.

However, if a medication causes potential infertility, then should it be banned?

Other substances that cause infertility: alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, corticosteroids, X-rays, chemotherapy, and so on.

Perhaps we should ban all those substances, as well as antidepressants? I mean, we should not have double standards, right?

Well, there is precisely one way to spin this. I'm going there.

"MALE BIRTH CONTROL!"

Just wanted to let (male) readers know that there's a good (i.e. negative) article about antidepressants in this month's issue of Men's Health by Paul Scott. In fact he doesn't have one good thing to say about antidepressants in the entire article. Unfortunately it's not available on line but check it out the next time you're in the grocery store.

Is the Men's Health article about antidepressants in the Sept 2008 issue with David Beckham on the cover?