Two Cases of Hypersexuality Probably Associated with Aripiprazole

Two Cases of Hypersexuality Probably Associated with Aripiprazole.

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“In conclusion, aripiprazole can enhance sexual desire in patients with schizophrenia. We suggest aripiprazole’s dopaminergic agonistic effects at the mesolimbic circuit especially at nucleus accumbens may be responsible for hypersexuality phenomenon.”

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I think I am the third one of those unconfirmed…

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I had to stop Abilify because it was causing hypersexuality. No more issues now on Risperdal.

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I felt it just from taking it for 1 day. It was too much. Got in the way of common sense.

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I also saw somewhere that it can affect your sexual orientation. Men who were otherwise straight had fantasies and pursued non straight encounters.

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I actually got an increase in physical strength fro Aripiprazole. That’s rare for an AP.

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Maybe bcz it increases dopamine.

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I wouldn’t know. I don’t think they classify it as a major tranquilizer now. It did some good things for me, but it also made me even more anxious, and they had to take me off it.

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I read studies about that too, some changed their sexual orientation bcz of Abilify. I think its true as after being on Abilify for many years I started watching weird sexual stuff, it started with pain fetish and got worse. I think it was starting to make me bisexual honestly. So happy to have stopped the Abilify.

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I feel like I’ve had a lot of “am I actually bisexual” thoughts. But I know I’m fully straight. I need to probably speak to my drs about it.

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https://wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pnp.556

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“Aripiprazole is a dopamine D2 receptor partial agonist infrequently associated with sexual side‐effects. Here the authors present a case of hypersexuality and new‐onset homosexual behaviour, following use of aripiprazole in a male patient, which resulted in discontinuation of aripiprazole and subsequent elimination of the side‐effects”

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339248279_Hypersexuality_and_new_sexual_orientation_following_aripiprazole_use

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Yeah it seems bizarre. I think it’s really strange, but the I don’t know the specifics of neurophysiology

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I found the full pdf article for free:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pnp.556&ved=2ahUKEwjC6p260-fvAhUzMlkFHffnDcwQFjABegQIBBAC&usg=AOvVaw3CNY7gsd3b1uMFg_1_Cme_

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Do you have a sex drive at all on respirderal? When I was on it. I remember feeling quite zombie

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Yes I do its normal now. Off meds its high and on Abilify it was extremely high even painful psychologically and physically.

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I can relate. Sometimes you feel so hyper sexual that you even look at the wrong types and feel flirtatious. It’s so bad sometimes

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