3 Types of Drugs Kill Sexual Arousal
Jakarta, Several types of prescription drugs can put your sex drive. So that if you have a problem of sex drive, there is also a good idea to check the medicine cabinet. Who knows the drugs are actually the cause of the decline in sexual arousal.
Drugs which should be wary because it could put your sex drive as reported by health, Wednesday (18/01/2012) are:
1. Contraceptive Drugs
Some oral contraceptives can increase levels of sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) in women. SHBG decreases the amount of free testosterone circulating in the bloodstream and lowers libido or sexual desire.
2006 study by Boston University, led by Irwin Goldstein, MD, director of the San Diego Sexual Medicine and editor in chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, found that birth control pills have long term effects on libido or sexual desire of women.
SHBG levels two times higher in women taking the pill compared with women who did not take the pills.
Long-term effects are quite rare. But Hilda Hutcherson, MD, professor of gynecology at Columbia University, found that sexual disorders are associated with birth control medication is usually lost when the switch using a pill with a different formulation.
"It appears that progestin is affecting libido. Some progestins have the effect of androgens (male hormones), and tend to have unfavorable effects for the libido," says Dr. Hutcherson.
Fortunately, Dr. Hutcherson see most of the female patients admitted his passion re-appear if you stop taking the contraceptive pill.
2. Antidepressants
Antidepressants that contain selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac should be entertaining, but unfortunately it can interfere with one potential source of happiness: sexual pleasure.
Some doctors do not prescribe SSRIs, but give Wellbutrin, which can increase the hormone dopamine and acts as an 'antidote to SSRI'.
Everyone's body reacts differently to drugs. For some people, depression itself has been more of an inhibiting sex drive than SSRIs.
"But for some selected patients, when given SSRIs, may increase sexual desire and can be sexually active than ever before," said Marjorie Green, MD, director of the Female Sexual Medicine Center Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School .
3. Diabetes drugs
Both the diabetes itself or the drugs used to treat it can reduce sexual arousal and orgasm. And these changes in turn can affect sexual arousal.
Sometimes, just by switching to another type of medication or using different formulations of the same drug, can overcome the side effects decreased sex drive. But if not successful and the drug is still needed, do not despair.
"Consult with an expert who specializes in sexual medicine physician prescription drugs to get a different strategy," advises Alan M. Altman, MD, assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and specialized problems of menopause and midlife sexuality.
Drugs which should be wary because it could put your sex drive as reported by health, Wednesday (18/01/2012) are:
1. Contraceptive Drugs
Some oral contraceptives can increase levels of sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) in women. SHBG decreases the amount of free testosterone circulating in the bloodstream and lowers libido or sexual desire.
2006 study by Boston University, led by Irwin Goldstein, MD, director of the San Diego Sexual Medicine and editor in chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, found that birth control pills have long term effects on libido or sexual desire of women.
SHBG levels two times higher in women taking the pill compared with women who did not take the pills.
Long-term effects are quite rare. But Hilda Hutcherson, MD, professor of gynecology at Columbia University, found that sexual disorders are associated with birth control medication is usually lost when the switch using a pill with a different formulation.
"It appears that progestin is affecting libido. Some progestins have the effect of androgens (male hormones), and tend to have unfavorable effects for the libido," says Dr. Hutcherson.
Fortunately, Dr. Hutcherson see most of the female patients admitted his passion re-appear if you stop taking the contraceptive pill.
2. Antidepressants
Antidepressants that contain selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac should be entertaining, but unfortunately it can interfere with one potential source of happiness: sexual pleasure.
Some doctors do not prescribe SSRIs, but give Wellbutrin, which can increase the hormone dopamine and acts as an 'antidote to SSRI'.
Everyone's body reacts differently to drugs. For some people, depression itself has been more of an inhibiting sex drive than SSRIs.
"But for some selected patients, when given SSRIs, may increase sexual desire and can be sexually active than ever before," said Marjorie Green, MD, director of the Female Sexual Medicine Center Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School .
3. Diabetes drugs
Both the diabetes itself or the drugs used to treat it can reduce sexual arousal and orgasm. And these changes in turn can affect sexual arousal.
Sometimes, just by switching to another type of medication or using different formulations of the same drug, can overcome the side effects decreased sex drive. But if not successful and the drug is still needed, do not despair.
"Consult with an expert who specializes in sexual medicine physician prescription drugs to get a different strategy," advises Alan M. Altman, MD, assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and specialized problems of menopause and midlife sexuality.
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