Antidepressants Induced Sexual Dysfunction

Dr. Harvinder Singh October 14, 2019

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(Q) 28 year old male with history of major depressive disorder, reports having sexual side effects on trial of fluoxetine, sertraline, mirtazapine and venlafaxine.

Patient has failed trails of:

dose reduction
drug holidays
addition of bupropion

What is your medication (add on) of choice to treat antidepressant induced sexual dysfunction?

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Categories: Psycho-Pharmacology

Tags: antidepressant, sexual, side effect

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Zeghida October 15, 2019

Change antidepressant
Try paroxetine?

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(Q) 28 year old male with history of major depressive disorder, reports having sexual side effects on trial of fluoxetine, sertraline, mirtazapine and venlafaxine.

Patient has failed trails of:

dose reduction

drug holidays

addition of bupropion

What is your medication (add on) of choice to treat antidepressant induced sexual dysfunction?

Detailed answer is available in our following new email series:

Today we begin our new email lecture series “Managing Antidepressant’s Adverse Event” with discussion of Antidepressants Induced Sexual Dysfunction.

This First Email in this Lecture Series is Available for Free Preview:-

NEXT EMAIL IN THIS LECTURE SERIES:

Total chapters= 230 and counting.

Each chapter includes references (with full pdf article or PubMed link for each article).

Course is frequently updated with new chapters.

Triweekly Email Clinical Summary: Subscribers receive 3 emails/week containing chapters clinical summary (Mon, Wed, and Fri).

Goal is to have all important clinically relevant topics in one course: aimed at busy clinical professionals for quick review.

Dr. Harvinder Singh, MD

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