Bi-polar meds and loss of sexual desire/ sensation.
I am a 36 y/o bi-polar manic depressive. I was finally properly diagnosed at age 30. In hind- sight, I can probably say I experienced the symptoms as early as I can remember in my childhood. Mostly mania...this was improperly diagnosed as ADHD and I was on ritalin for years.
As I approached my teens the depression set in, I would think alot about death, and killling myself, though never attempted. After my son was born, when I was 20, I experienced Postpartum depression that illicited panic attacks and then lead to psychosis/ nervous breakdown.
Recently after the stress and grief of learning my mother has a terminal disease which will take her from us slowly, I lost it again. I could not concentrate and ended up taking and LOA from my work.
My psychiatrist changed all my meds around. For the last 3-4 weeks I have been taking 2- 350mg lithium ( 1 and am and 1 @ bedtime.) Serequel (1- 100mg in am and 1-200gm @ bedtime.) Zanax ( 0.5 3x's daily as needed for my anxiety.) Ambien CR (12.5 @ bedtime for insomnia) and recently as last week Effexor FR ( 75mg x's 2 daily with my lithium.)
I'm finally coming out of " dark pit of hell " I felt I was laying in. Most days I'm more active now, but there are still days I am weepy. Bad thing is I have little desire for relations with my husband and this is unusual for me because before tis depression set in and my subsequent med change I exhibited what they call " hypersexuality." Now it is few and far between when I allow intimacy with my husband and I also cannot achieve orgasm any longer.
Could one of these new meds be the culprit? This is hurting my marriage.
Anyone else experienced simular?
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