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From: Mark H
Date: 22/06/03
Time: 19:03:01
Remote Name: 81.174.134.130
I know that the common side affect to this drug and most if not all other SSRI's can be low libido or complete loss of it and failure to reach orgasm or maintain an erection etc. I feel that I have gone far futher than that and its actually quite a disturbing feeling. I have heard of/read about women who have had hysterectomies and described how they don't feel like a proper "woman" anymore. Well I am feeling quite the same, I find it really hard to describe but I actually feel asexual. Looking at the type of person that I would usually find attractive stimulates absolutely no emotion in me whatsoever and it feels as if it were never there. I feel like I have lost my "sexual spirit", something which makes me feel really empty and vague. I know this post sounds very strange but I am not quite sure how to describe it but its awful. Infact I think I am bodily numb, no feelings, no nothing. I feel like everything around me is standing still/come to a halt, as if the world and everyone in it had stopped, even whilst around people. I have been on these things for the third time in 3 years now and am trying to taper off them for good. All I have done is reduced my dose from 20mg every day to 20mg/10mg alternating days.
Do I continue to reduce the dose next to 10mg everyday and get them out of my system. Could this feeling be because of the beginning of withdrawal? I certainly don't remember feeling like this last time.
Mark