Hi!
I will explain you quickly my problem. I have a paraphrenia, and the only treatment than works provokes an hypersexuality, which is very difficult to live with. I am currently looking for a solution to cut down this side-effect. Has someone faced the same situation and found a solution?
Thanks a lot.
Hi Orange 84. Welcome to the forum.
Im sorry, i don’t have any solutions, but perhaps adding a small SSRI antidepressive drug could help?
SSRI very often have “low sex drive” (libido) as a sideeffect.
Welcome to the forum!
I had hypersexuality while on 25mg Abilify from my experience and my psychiatrist said its the Abilify causing it so he switched to another AP.
I was on Latuda 80mg and now Risperdal 3mg, no more hypersexuality with any of them.
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Have you only recently gone on this medication?
I struggled with hypersexuality both times I was first put on abilify but then it died down after some time.
Maybe you will be lucky too like that
From what I hear and experienced, abilify can cause this problem.
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I struggled with hypersexuality when I was on gabapentin. The solution was for me to stop takibg that med. I wish I had a better answer for you.
It wasn’t so bad for me because I am married, so I just basically wore Mr. Star ragged for a few months. Before I was married,the first time I was on gabapentin,I madelits of very dangerous decisions and put myself in harm’s way because of my hypersexuality.
Thank you for the welcomes and the answers.
Bluebutterfly, do you know someone for whom adding an antidepressor worked? Do you have some antidepressors to advise me?
Thank you for your answers.
Yeah, I had hypersexuality. But on my 65th birthday, they fed me a cup cake that seems to take all that hypersexuality away.
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Hello I was very embarrassed to tell me doctor about this but I have had to google it a few times and tonight I have finally seem several articles about increased sexual desire on it. It is actually an unwanted side effect for me and puts me off taking it as it feels frustrating. This may be a potential breakthrough for women like Viagra was for men. Its great we can share our experiences like this as the drug companies aren’t doing enough research yet. I only take 75mg. Can people tell me if increasing it might settle the feelings?
Hypersexuality is the hardest thing to treat because its hard to talk about it, I suffered for 9 years from it until I was able to tell my psychiatrist eventhough he asked me if my sexuality was ok at the beginning. I lied to him saying it was ok because I felt embarrassed for 9 years. It made me do very bad and very dangerous behaviors. It made my gf leave me.
For me it was caused by Abilify, my psy asked me if my sexuality was ok right after he prescribed it, I lied for 9 years. Last summer it got so extreme that I had testicles pain from too much sex and I spent all my money to fulfill my hypersexuality and to gamble. Its when I started to draw cash from my visa that I felt something was wrong with me because I was never like this before taking Abilify.
I told my psy and he said yes Abilify can do all this, he switched to another med and no more addictions to sex, gambling, weed, alcohol, compulsive shopping and binge eating. No more impulsivity.
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hmmm. I wonder if Abilify causes that or if it’s more of a symptom of schizo-affective disorder, because I have bipolar tendencies but I have always had them no matter what medication I’m on and other medications don’t work like anti-depressants. The strattera seems to someone ease out the restlessness and feeling of needing to fill a void; it makes me happier. Or maybe it has to do with the way these meds work/by increasing dopamine and serotonin.
No one really knows what causes schizophrenia. There have been ideas but they still don’t know.
I am ok with it never going away and I’m glad the treatment helped with aspects of it.
But I have also started looking into hypnosis and meditation/alternative therapies.
The truth is anti-psychotics don’t cure schizophrenia so there may be other options to help you become stable. I’m open to the possibility there is more than one way to treat schizophrenia.
Antipsychotics are the only treatment and the most reliable one. I think mania in sza causes hypersexuality, read it somewhere.
Here many legit results in google:
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Antipsychotics are the only thing that really works for the positive symptoms of sz like paranoia, hallucinations and delusions. I tried tons of supplements, only a waste of money except for glycine which is slightly good for negative and cognitive symptoms.
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I found this document on how to lawsuit Abilify in my city, Montreal Quebec Canada by Consumer Law Group inc., I wish I could get back my 100 000+$ and more back from them for the psychological damage they did to me during 10 years:
Application-for-Authorization.pdf (312.3 KB)