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2024-05-23 Science & Technology

These anti-depressants have been prescribed to millions - but have a hidden side effect that is worse than death

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The FDA is being sued for allegedly ignoring evidence that anti-depressants leave patients' sex lives permanently ruined - even years after stopping the meds.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) drugs like Prozac and Zoloft began carrying a label warning telling users they may cause erectile dysfunction, low libido, vaginal dryness and trouble orgasming only after patients began complaining of sexual side effects to their doctors in the 80s and 90s.

But thousands of former patients say they have been left completely asexual, numb below the waist, and unable to enjoy sex or sustain romantic relationships. Some patients have even experienced shrinkage of their genitals.

The FDA is now being sued by a team of scientists who say the agency has ignored their petition asking for a warning about permanent sexual side effects since 2018 and is asking the agency to warn doctors and patients about the long-term risks.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-23 06:31|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ] Top

#1 Correlation with Nancys?

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-23 07:31|| 2024-05-23 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 "Worse Than Death"?
That's a fairly high bar to make. I was expecting zombies.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-23 08:16|| 2024-05-23 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I was expecting zombies.

Or your skin feels like it is burning off but you live forever worse than death type.

Seriously, anyone that has taken these or dated someone on them knows this very well by now.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-23 08:44|| 2024-05-23 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 This explains a lot about the life choices and attitudes of folks taking these as a result of depression induced by scary things promulgated by government, 'focus groups' and media (all compensated by Drug Companies, of course).

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-05-23 08:53|| 2024-05-23 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 A lot of people need to adopt this simple ethos: "If you can't fix it, f*ck it."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-23 08:55|| 2024-05-23 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Assisted "orgasming" therapy. Not listed in my TriCare benefits folder. Who do I call ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-23 09:01|| 2024-05-23 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 Assisted "orgasming" therapy. Not listed in my TriCare benefits folder. Who do I call ?

Stormy might be available, B

Posted by Warthog 2024-05-23 09:34|| 2024-05-23 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Think I'll have to just pass on that one WH.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-23 09:53|| 2024-05-23 09:53|| Front Page Top

#9 As we also have a record number of women in their 30s who are unmarried, childless, and alone. Conversely, in that same category, are the men who are resorting to ever more perverted situations in order to 'get off'.

Butker is right.

I also recommend Critical Drinker's take on the movie Falling Down. It is spot. on.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-23 10:08|| 2024-05-23 10:08|| Front Page Top

#10 So, what you tell me is that modern western "elites" politics are the consequence of widespread use of antidepressants?

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-23 10:19|| 2024-05-23 10:19|| Front Page Top

#11 modern western "elites" politics are the consequence of widespread use of antidepressants?

Possibly a contribution. But the main cause of our modern Left was a memetic weapon unleashed by the Soviet Union on the West that took root and has grown and festered for years. But that is a rant for another day.

tl;dr: Senator Joe McCarthy may have been a dick, but he was also right.

Posted by SteveS 2024-05-23 10:35|| 2024-05-23 10:35|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd go with 'as a means' for sure. These are the AWFLs and Dudes in the Girls Room.

Watch that video from yesterday made by that cheerleader and tell me she isn't just totally popped out. She got the upper user's crazy leg in her entire body, moving around like one of those wind sock things advertising used cars.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-23 10:54|| 2024-05-23 10:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Re #11: See Russia and her errors.

Posted by Croth Smiter of the Huns1021 2024-05-23 12:56|| 2024-05-23 12:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame.

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-23 16:39|| 2024-05-23 16:39|| Front Page Top

#15 If you are sane, you missed the whole "Stuck in the Forest with a Man or a Bear?" and the AWFL trendies were like, "Bear because men are dangerous." and the memers replied with the bear returning the woman because its sick of her shit...hilarious.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-23 20:17|| 2024-05-23 20:17|| Front Page Top

#16 The FDA sold the Covid lie, they sold Ivermectin as horse paste and let tens of thousands die with zero treatment. The FDA says sugar frosted flakes are better and higher on the food pyramid than steak and eggs... Anyone that listens to the FDA deserves what they get. The FDA is a political arm with no master but their own.

Posted by 49 Pan 2024-05-23 21:45|| 2024-05-23 21:45|| Front Page Top

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