Does taking medication for bipolar decreases your sex drive?
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at
8:33 am
My best friend’s husband has bipolar and takes medication. She is one frustrated woman, I can sense it although she does not talk about the subject. They are young in their 30′s. Could his decreased sex drive be a main reason for her frustrating attitude since he was diagnosed.
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That is one of the worst drawbacks to most psychotropic medications. Most of them affect sex drive. Be there for her to confide in, also maybe you can tell her the medications can cause this. My husband takes lexipro and I am on a lot of medication and we both know about this. How we have worked on this is we have knowledge of the situation and it just takes extra effort. To put it bluntly sex takes more time to break through a chemical barrier. If we didn’t make an informed effort, we just wouldn’t have sex. You have try and work at it, you don’t just get those spontaneous urges anymore. O.K. probably way more than you wanted to know.
Some medications for bipolar can decrease your sex drive. Your friend can’t get information about her husband’s condition from his doctor but, the doctor can listen to what she has to says.
I know this from experience with a family member.
Living with a bipolar person can be very nerve wracking, this could also be the reason for her frustration.
Try looking it up on http://www.webmd.com and look up the symptoms.
I’m sure she could use a friend to talk with about all of this.
You could try viagra but I will tell ya what, that stuff sucks. The side effects are terrible. Have you ever tried a sexual enhancer? I was in your situation, like I said, viagra was tried but it wasn’t for me considering the side effects overwhelm the pleasures of it. I found this natural herbal enhancer and figured what the heck, if it’s natural it must be great and plus it said no side effects. I tried it and after about two days of taking it I was just horny like a mad man. All the time, I have erections that want to stand straight up and the orgasms are to die for. The stuff was called vigrx plus and I saved on it at the time at hughs-reviews.com , You should check it out. I love the fact it’s made from a researched blend of herbs that seem to do the trick for me atleast.
Good luck and I hope this helps.