Posted by Else on July 1, 2001, at 11:06:51
In reply to Giving up, posted by Joe Schmoe on July 1, 2001, at 10:12:15
> Well, after suffering for years from social anxiety I decided to give the latest drugs a try, but now I am getting off this merry-go-round. Serzone was worthless and made me feel stoned and tired all the time, and now Paxil, after only a week, has made me unable to have an orgasm. I don't think these drugs are ready for prime time. I guess I will check back in again in another ten years. Maybe by then they will have something that works. In the meantime I will just continue to muddle through on Inderal and Xanax like I have been for the past ten years.
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I feel the same way you do about SSRIs. I was on Zoloft for over a year for social phobia and I think if doctors took the pills they were prescribing sometimes they wouldn't be as enthusiastic about them. Now my pdoc has me on Neurontin, an anti-convulsant which apparently works wonders for sp. I have not witnessed any sexual side effects so far (but I am on a low dose). As for the primary effect well, I do think it complements the Rivotril quite nicely but I don't know how it would stand on its own.
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