You know, the talk of rotating medications (it’s true that people have different reactions to individual antidepressants, and some aren’t particularly known for impacting sex drive) may not be useful in the case of a fairly short-term course of drugs that she’s presumably on. Most antidepressants take some time to kick in, and it might make more sense to give up the Big O for a month or two rather than screw around even more with pharmacology.
Sounds like folks are taking the OP’s venting of a bit of irritation at her husband a little too seriously, incidentally. Have you guys looked into mood stabilizers? Qadgop can hook you up with some Xanax if you slip him a few bucks.
Us guys live our entire lives under the specter that our hormones makes us brutish thugs. Why is it when when women experience a hormonal surge we call out the biochemical National Guard?
Gotta agree with JohnBckWLD, everybody is rushing to dump on old hubby. Everyone seems to forget they are agreeing with a psychologically disturbed (going by QtM here!) woman who is pitting her loving husband because he doesn’t like his wife hoocked on an anti-depressant drug. Way to cheer Zolaft side effects people!
Y’all realize you are agreeing with the PPD, not the person - right?
Now… far be it from me to say what your husband was really thinking, and it was certainly less than fully tactful… but damn! I know that if my girlfriend was in the same situation I’d be concerned about her happiness. Not about getting more sex, not about ‘feeling like a man because I can make her cum’, just upset that she wasn’t enjoying herself as much as she used to. My response to that would be to try to fix the problem, or at least inquire about it. “So, when will it be safe to get off the medicine so you can enjoy sex as much as you used to?”
Maybe he really was worrying about your happiness and not stroking his ego?
Because if you’re feeling that you’re so fucking worthless you’d be better off dead and maybe you should even work on making that point happen, then you should perhaps consider some emergency intervention ASAP as well. This isn’t a run-of-the-mill “hormonal surge.”
What? It was a joke. About all the people taking this thread way too seriously. I don’t think they’re all, or mostly, women. Man, am I the only one who’s noticed that the OP was just venting a little? Mommy and daddy ain’t gettin’ divorced over it, people. Get a grip.
You’re clearly reading a different thread. There’s exactly one post assuming the husband is being a selfish bastard. Pretty much everyone else is agreeing that he’s most likely expressing a legitimate concern for HER, and just wasn’t terribly tactful about it. Which, assuming she correctly related the incident, is probably the case.
I’m on Zoloft and I don’t suffer from any of those effects. It works for me. In my case, Prozac had side effects that were negative and so I switched to Zoloft. Not everyone reacts the same to a given anti-depressant.
No, you’re not, Alessan. In fact, Serial Object Bus, improves on USB by transferring entire objects serially rather than just bits, making it the perfect hardware implementation for database connections to object oriented databases from web based applications written in Java or .NET.
I’m taking Zoloft and it helps quite a bit. I do have a diminished sex drive and it’s takes longer to orgasm, when I feel it’s worth the bother of doing it myself. The thing is, a good orgasm is lot more mood lifting then Zoloft.
Oh, and it makes me sweat like a pig. Fun!
Tengu, you’re right. I overstated my point. It’s just these “Give him the benefit of the doubt” is crap to me. The OP assumed the absolute worst of her husband - he wasn’t even in a “benefit of the doubt” situation.
Unlike some of the walking chemlabs that post here, this problem that samclem is so heroically protective of is hardly serious. She is on temporary medication that effects her orgasms? How did she ever make it through the summer? :rolleyes:
OK, that was probably an overreaction on my part. But please don’t imply this again.
The docs I hold in greatest contempt are those who dispense narcotics for money, and those who abuse their patients and/or the doctor/patient relationship.
