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AmandaK
06/25/08
AmandaK
Category:Side Effects

How do I deal w/ my boyfriends loss of sexual drive because of prozac?

My boyfriend has been taking prozac for about 2 months now and it has helped him tremendously with his depression and just his overall view of life. But It has decreased his sexual drive to almost nothing and I thought I could deal with this but its beginning to cause me to go into a depression. How do I deal?

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Deborah Gray
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Deborah Gray lived with undiagnosed clinical depression, both major...

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

It's wonderful that he is finding relief from his depression, but you definitely can't discount the importance of a healthy sex life. Encourage him to talk to his doctor about either augmenting the Prozac with another drug or trying another antidepressant that doesn't affect him that way.

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