Jelqing while on antidepressants

Sorry if I posted this in the wrong place.

I’m just struggling to do erect Jelqs at the moment, I’m taking Citapolram at the moment which is an antidepressant and its totally killed my libido and I’m finding it difficult to get an erection, I was wondering if anyone else been through this and has a solution to the problem.

This is what I found on a quick search:

Anti Depressants and ED

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This is what I dug up on the net about the brand name your drug is under.

Celexa™ (citalopram HBr) is an orally administered selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) with a chemical structure unrelated to that of other SSRIs or of tricyclic, tetracyclic, or other available antidepressant agents. Citalopram HBr is a racemic bicyclic phthalane derivative designated (±)-1-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-1-(4-fluorophenyl)-1,3-dihydroisobenzofuran-5-carbonitrile, HBr
http://www.celexa.com/

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This is a search for everthing with the word CELEXA in it , here at this forum.
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I too have had that problem. Here is the answer: first, and this is SCIENTIFICALLLY PROVEN, take at least 200 mg of gingko biloba (standardized extract!) per day, broken up into several daily doses. This will help you with erections in general, so you won’t be impotent. You will need to wait two or three weeks to start seeing the results, but it works.

Also, you can add to this by taking horny goat weed, maca tribulus terrestris and other libido-enhancing herbs (as well as yohimbine, if you do not have a problem with anxiety.)

Second: if you still have problems, switch from Celexa to Effexor, which has a much lower rate of libido problems. that is what I did, and in combination with the herbs, I have no trouble getting wood, or having orgasms (which is the other problem with SSRI antidepressants).

Dangleman

Thanks for the help & adivice, I appreciate it. I get some of the ginko biloba along with the other supplemants you mentioned. Cheers.

Hey Dangleman, welcome to Thunder’s Place. Would you be kind enough to provide a link to your scientific proof regarding ginkgo, erections and SSRI antidepressants? Thanks!

1Aleem,

Your erections will come back, as did mine. It’s a learning process, however. Fantasy definitely helps. Try fantasizing about getting blown while you’re jelking. Works for me.

Also, don’t ignore your Kegels.

I don’t have a link, but the research is easy to find. It was first mentioned to me by the psychiatrist (MD) who prescribed the antidepressants. Search google under ginkgo and antidepressants and you should find it. The effects on elderly men were noticed, and a study spun off of it with 60 people on antidepressants, and the results were super.

Effexor has worked as well for me as Celexa, with less effect on libido, but it still has some (less pronounced) effects on erections and orgasm. The ginkgo, etc. overcomes this.

Be careful about switching your meds. All SSRI’s have sexual side effects, but they also work really well at combating depression and moodiness. Some of the other antidepressants (Welbutrin comes to mind) are not SSRIs. THey just don’t work as well, I’ve been told.

If you’re really concerned, consider switching to Zoloft. Zoloft has a very short half-life in your system, and needs to be refreshed daily to maintain effectiveness. If you’re on Zoloft, you may be able to jelq in the morning, before taking the meds, with much of the previous day’s effects worn off.

I don’t know much about Citapolram. You may want to ask your MD about the half-life.

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, I asked not because I was particularly interested in the study, but because we like to help our members by providing as much information as we can. I don’t know how it was on the other PE forums you’ve been in, but here we try not to let unsubstantiated claims, especially those in ALL CAPS, go by without trying to find a report or study to back them up.

Cohen & Bartlik study (Pub Med abstract)

For those interested: The study is discussed on many sites that offer information about ginkgo biloba. For more information do an Internet search using the authors’ names and the year of the study (1988) or "ginkgo."

I’ve never heard of Citapolram before…

That is cause it is the inside industry pharmocological name for it. I looked for anything with Celexa as the trade name we know it as.

Effexor is great, I have to agree it doesn’t seem to have any noticable sexual side-effects. Perhaps a little on the limbo side, but erections and orgasms are fine. However, I was a horney bastard before, now I’m more “normal”. I never really thought about this before, I always thought PE was making less horney, maybe I should get back on the horny goat weed, that stuff made me an animal.

The generic name is actually spelled “citalopram”.

Medical Cost Warning: Citalopram will be going off patent in the USA within the next 6 to 12 months. (I forget the exact date, but it’s in the earlier part of that range.) Escitalopram (brand name Lexapro) is also available. It’s one isomer of citalopram and the company is making a big push to try to direct prescribing towards it since it still has many years of patent protection (and big profit) remaining. There are no clinically significant differences between the two, despite what the company may try to tell you.

Wellbutrin has a different mechanism of action and is widely recognized as having fewer sexual side effects than any of the SSRIs.

RBM

I’ve been on zoloft for about 4 months, and I notice a dramatic drop of libido. I was jacking off about 4-6 times a month. Since starting PE, stretching, jelqing and kegels, I’ve re gained my sexual energy.