medication and.... lack of.... (tmi?)

so, i'm feeling pretty frustrated. ever since i had to start taking a different mood stabilizer, and i finally reached for at least now what is a dose that is working for the most part, i am still able to get aroused, and i can get close, but it seems that i just can't have an orgasm. and while i enjoy just being intimate with my partner and being able to make her feel good, i am typically a somewhat sexual person, i guess, and i just need the release or something. so i guess that's why i'm feeling frustrated. i plan to bring this up with my pdoc when i see him next week, although it will probably be kind of awkward, i just wondered if anyone else has had this problem from meds? i know it can be common with anti-depressants. i guess i'm just unaware if there are solutions that do not involve going off the medication....?

i will also state, i suppose, that some of the therapy work i'm doing could maybe be playing into the problem with subconscious, but i really do feel that for the most part it's the medicine. it started before the therapy work, and i have had this problem before with other mood stabilizers, but didn't feel as okay about bringing it up with my doctor, maybe because of my age or something, or maybe i just didn't know him well enough yet. anyway, sorry to ramble.

SSRI's meant I could get close, but never actually orgasm... frustrating

yeah.... pretty much exactly the problem. INDEED frustrating. at least i know i'm not alone. thanks. i guess i'll talk to my pdoc next week about it.

I was with my bf for 5 years before I started to take medication. We did it on a regular basis and I would achieve orgasm. After I started the meds I felt the same way that you are describing. It was like it went so far and then my body stalled out. I didn't say anything or stop the meds or even change the meds and after about 2 months I was able to finally orgasm again. The only problem now was that it was not near the intensity or satisfaction that it used to be. Also, I would continue to feel like I needed more and if we kept it up and I managed to orgasm again, it would just be the exact same all over again. I started to not want to get aroused because I knew I wouldn't be totally satisfied.

This question isn't TMI at all. My therapist has told me the most common thing antidepressants (especially SSRI's) interfere with is orgasm. You're not the only one! I don't have any solutions, however.