{"id":17995,"date":"2022-09-12T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=17995"},"modified":"2022-09-12T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:00:16","slug":"5-things-men-need-to-know-about-the-sexual-side-effects-of-antidepressants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/5-things-men-need-to-know-about-the-sexual-side-effects-of-antidepressants\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things Men Need To Know About The Sexual Side Effects Of Antidepressants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most times even if we don\u2019t want to, experiencing depression may lead to a lack of motivation. Your energy can decline immensely and what\u2019s worst is losing your sexual desires.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Delayed orgasms<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s a possibility that you can experience delayed orgasms during intercourse and can even escalate to blocked orgasms.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Loss of sexual desire<\/h3>\n<p>All of a sudden you are losing interest and you have no sexual desire at all. Taking antidepressants may cause you to lose or decrease your libido.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Erectile dysfunction<\/h3>\n<p>Erectile dysfunction can also be a result of taking antidepressants. You may find it difficult to get there and maintain it.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Drop in sperm count<\/h3>\n<p>Although it may not happen to everyone, for some people taking antidepressants it can cause sperm count to drop to nearly zero.<\/p>\n<h3>5. Premature ejaculation<\/h3>\n<p>Premature ejaculation can also be another problem if your pills are not for you. If you notice unusual changes in your body it\u2019s time to visit your doctor and share your concern.<\/p>\n<h3>Treatment<\/h3>\n<p>When you realize that something is not right, you can try to consider changing your lifestyle and eating habits. Other than that there are also other possible changes you can do that might help you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower your dose<\/strong><br \/>\nBefore doing any change in your medication, you need to consult your doctor first so your doctor can assist you and avoid risks of any kind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Change your medication<\/strong><br \/>\nSome pills that work for others, might not work for you. If you notice a sudden change in your body, you need to tell your doctor so you can be given professional advice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avoid drinking alcohol<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s easy to blame all the changes on your body after taking a newly prescribed medication. But sometimes we forget to consider our lifestyle. Drinking too much alcohol may also cause lower sexual desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most times even if we don\u2019t want to, experiencing depression may lead to a lack of motivation. Your energy can decline immensely and what\u2019s worst is losing your sexual desires. 1. Delayed orgasms There\u2019s a possibility that you can experience delayed orgasms during intercourse and can even escalate to blocked orgasms. 2. Loss of sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}