International Society of Sexual Medicine

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May 8, 2023 | 10 Comments

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  1. Dr. Healy,

    I appreciate your attention to this matter. The PSSD Reddit and Twitter community worked together to create a powerful outcry.

    It has been three years since the EMA acknowledged the persistence of sexual issues post-discontinuation. There is no justification for allowing such a high degree of misinformation to persist.

    Let us hope that the ISSM has learned from this experience.

    Ruben

  2. It should be clarified, that severe depression doesn’t cause numbed genitals only in a drug-naive population which never got treated. If someone had previous exposure to SSRI depression or stress then depression indeed can cause or worse numbed genitals. This is evident from many testimonies and speaks about persistent asymptomatic damage being masked by good mental health. SSRI Damage becomes symptomatic after worsening of mental state. The stress – symptoms severity correlation is true also for akathisia, emotional bluting and tardive dyskinesia. Given the mass usage of SSRI It’s easy for some opinion leaders to push the idea that depression always caused numbed genitals, but the symptom was overlooked in older research / diagnostic system

    • S – genital numbness is not and has never been a symptom of depression. People on finasteride and isotretinoin also get this genital numbness and its not part of losing your hair or developing acne either

      David

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  4. From the Vortioxetine paper mentioned: Conflicts of Interest: A.C. (Anita Clayton) reports grants from Endoceutics, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Sage Therapeutics, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals; advisory board or consultant fees from Acadia, Alkermes, Allergan, AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Fabre-Kramer, Lundbeck, Otsuka, Palatin Technologies, S1 Biopharma, Sage Therapeutics, Sprout Pharmaceuticals, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals; royalties or copyrights from Ballantine Books, Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire, and Guilford Publications; and shares or restricted stock units from Euthymics and S1 Biopharma.

    P.J., W.Z., and G.N. were employees of Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc., at the time of the study.

    Funding: This study was funded by Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. The sponsor was involved in study design and implementation, analysis and interpretation of the data, writing of the report, and the decision to submit the article for publication.

    Medical writing assistance was provided by inVentiv Medical Communications, LLC, a Syneos Health group company, and supported by Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

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