Can medication cause a person to become asexual? I am currently taking seroquel 100mg 2x daily, geodon 100mg 2x daily, topiramate 25mg 2x daily, and hydroxyzine 50mh 3x daily. I also just received my first dose of Abilify Maintena 400mg (injection) last friday. And I was off my meds for 18 months and then got back on them and all of a sudden became asexual. Has this kind of thing affected anyone else?
A sexual what?..
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asexual
Basically someone who has no sexual urges
Thats kinda like me im basicaly asexual since being put on meds years and years ago.
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I was on meds as a teenager and had a perfectly normal sex drive, but I got off my meds to have a baby then I even had a sex drive after that, but once I went back on the meds it disappeared…
The meds can diminish your sexual drive, thinking you’re asexual, but you’re not. It will come back don’t worry. I thought about that too, but once in a while I get my sex drive back…
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cuz being asexual is far more better then staying sexual…for me…
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When I first got on meds I wasn’t interested in sex and that upset my partner. but eventually I got my sex drive a few months later. I like personally think it was the celexa or fanapt.
My husband gets really upset with me because of having no sex drive he just doesn’t understand…
It is hard for normal people to understand, one day before meds you had a sex drive and then all of a sudden you have no drive what so ever. I still frustrate my partner every now and then when i’m not in the mood for sex but most of the time now i’m the one who starts it.
Meds don’t really make you asexual, they just destroy sexual energy sometimes. Like when I take my night time benzo, I just feel like my sex drive comes to a halt.
But this can be pretty serious and is a big reason people go off meds. I would tell your doc about it. And yeah it can kind of drive a partner insane.
I’m on olanazine, the main things I’ve noticed is now hot women don’t inspire movement this includes porn,
I think my sex drive is about 1/4 what it used to be, but not getting a erection without physical stimulation is the main difference.
I just hope that he can start to understand a little better and that hopefully I will get enough courage to tell my Doctor about the non existent sex drive…
I tried telling one of my doctors about when they had me on a really low dose of risperidone but It didn’t help with the symptoms and it dragged down my sex drive too. Some doctors care others couldn’t have cared less.
I know this is a personal question but has your husband tried to get you excited about sex or is it wam bam thank ma’am. When I wasn’t interested in sex my partner tried to get me excited and that somewhat helped she just had to be patient.
My DR is one that really seems to care about his patients but I get nervous when talking to him and don’t always tell him about all the problems I am having…
My husband does try to get me excited but it seems like nothing works and I mean nothing we have tried a variety of different things but its always a dead end…
Sexuality amounts to who you want to have sex with. It has nothing to do with your ability to have sex.
i’m sorry, just practice saying it out loud to yourself first then work your way up to discussing it with your doctor. That’s an old forensics speech and debate team trick I learned in high school.
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Thanks for the tip Ill have to give it a try
I find it alarming none of you are mad. I was 16 when i first got medication. Before that I got libido or sexuality when I was 11. So In did masturbatte and did so once a week. I had the wish die the libido tot lessen a bit and had no atraction toward others. Wich is normaal if you are stille Young. Dont expect tot have a preference. Then when I was 16 my libido with medication was gone. Now I am 22 and AM â– â– â– â– â– â– for life because I am starting tot have intrests. It is like they violated me. I feel repulsed at the people that do this who cause others to become handicaped for life. It is not only my libido that is damaged. I only know that damage done is irriversible. And that IT is completly being denied it exists. Because a permanent los OR even temporary one of libido was not mentioned in the side effects of my medication(antipsychotica). There is no way to prosecute the people that did this tot me.
And I did wonder if I was demi sexual before and I was fine with that. I was not as far to acknoledge it Just yet. But now I am denied a basic nature. Wich does a lot more damage than the medication ever solved. It adds tot the underlying problems that needed tot be fixed wich they did not want to help me with or aknoweledge.