female sexual dysfunction

Viagra Increases Sex Drive in Women Taking Antidepressants

August 2nd, 2008 |

Men and women need serotonin-uptake regulators to stay afloat and ward off chronic depression, but these maintaining drugs have a nasty side effect, the loss of sexual desire. When marriage woes and relationship issues become too great, women and men may just need sexual contact more to express their willingness to mend their broken intimacy. Taking antidepressants and fulfilling the need to have sex may lead to coital pain in women, which could be traumatic. The more dangerous scenario would be stopping to take these anxiety alleviation drugs to increase the chances of successful sexual contact. To most women afflicted with severe depression, this is not an option.

While hormone therapy and change in depression medication may be recommended, the more likely solution is a drug that will target FSD (female sexual dysfunction) without requiring the woman to give up her anxiety pills. Viagra, the wonder drug that has helped men regain their sex life for years, is now proven to alleviate antidepressant side effects on sexual desire by increasing lubrication and lessening orgasm delay in women. Taking Viagra may make it unnecessary for women to stop taking antidepressants in order to enjoy satisfying sex with their partners.

The development of a sex enhancing drug for women is long overdue. While vaginal creams that increase lubrication are effective, there is still a need for an effective medication to cure female sexual dysfunction. Viagra (or its organic equivalent, herbal Viagra) could just be the answer that women are looking for.