[hamster-bamster]

I realize that it is highly unusual to be asking this question, because the usual adage is Prozac=impotence, but ...

This is my second round of Prozac, 10 mg (smallest dose). I know that a lot of people have negative sexual side effects on Prozac, but my case seems to be the opposite. I wonder why. Is it because Prozac lifts depression and thus makes things better sexually, or do I have some sort of a paradoxical reaction to this medication? The reason I am asking - I treat being on Prozac, for myself only, as an emergency measure, to deal with a period of elevated stress, uncertainty, etc., and not as a maintenance drug because I am OK most of the time without that extra support. However, if the little pill does improve things sexually, I might as well take it indefinitely because I have no negative side effects.

Also, when I took it for the first time, I did not believe that it would work. It worked wonders. But no placebo effect (or at least I think so) because I had literally zero trust in the medication. And when I took it the second time, I did have trust in its ability to lift the depression and energize me, but I did not expect sexual improvement because I completely forgot about that positive aspect of the first experience. So once again I do not think that it was the placebo effect because I did not have any expectations.

Interested to see what people's experiences have been.

[healingme4me]

I had the opposite reaction on celexa. Do recall an older post, discussing prozac with an opposite reaction than you describe. Think it was in p. Meds, if you are considering searching that thread.

Good to know prozac can have a positive reaction in sexual function. Hopefully, you can get others with a similar experience. If you do, next time I need an AD, I'm looking my pdoc in the eyes, and telling him, this I'll try.

[hamster-bamster]

And batting your eyelashes, too, while looking the pdoc in the eyes!

[Secretum]

Hamster, you're bipolar, right? Maybe the prozac is making you hypomanic, and that's enhancing your sex life?

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by Secretum

Hamster, you're bipolar, right? Maybe the prozac is making you hypomanic, and that's enhancing your sex life?

I believe that Lithium would not let me go into hypomania. I have never taken Prozac alone, without simultaneous anti-elevation meds. It is hard to believe that 900 mg of Lithium would not counteract 10 mg of Prozac. 900 mg is a medium dose of Lithium, and Prozac is at the minimum dose. I would think that Lithium "wins" in this scenario.

[Secretum]

I still got manic on 11 mg of zyprexa...so anything is possible, haha.

[hamster-bamster]

Originally Posted by Secretum

I still got manic on 11 mg of zyprexa...so anything is possible, haha.

Sorry, just could not help asking - how did you take 11 mg?

Isn't it 5, 10, 15, 20 mg w/Zyprexa?

Or was it in liquid form? Somebody in the psychiatric medications forum is tapering Geodon down 10 mg, 9 mg etc. When asked how this is done with such precision (the smallest pill of Geodon has 20 mg), the poster replied: "In liquid form".

[Secretum]

I took 6 mg of zyprexa with 50 mg of prozac in symbyax (prozac and zyprexa in one pill; pretty awesome for those of us who have a hard time remembering to take all their meds!) and an additional 5 mg of straight zyprexa.