Antidepressants for PE (Zoloft/Sertraline)

**venom888** · 11-12-2020

Has anyone tried this? I'm planning to make an appointment with my doctor to try it out. Online pharmacies like Roman and Hims are prescribing Sertraline (Zoloft) 50mg/day to treat PE, with just a simple phone call with one of their rubber-stamp doctors. I'm going to talk to my actual doctor though, because antidepressants aren't a trivial thing (I was also already researching to see if it would make sense for me for some anxiety issues I have).

I read a study where they did a trial with two groups of men, giving the first group Zoloft and the second group a placebo. Then after a few weeks switched who got what. I believe it was about 80% of the men in both groups were cured while taking the medication, and then their PE came back after the stopped or got the placebo. Not just cured as in they lasted two minutes, but cured as in they lasted 15.

A small percent had issues with erections or loss of desire.
In people who are taking these medicines for depression, without PE, I saw a lot of people complaining about not being able to orgasm at all.

After two years of trying daily stretches, working on my APT, etc, with little to no result, I'm ready to do this. Side effects can be hard the first couple of weeks, and you can't hardly drink alcohol while taking it, but I think it'd be worth it. (Especially since it'd also help me in other ways).

I think my issue is definitely physical, not mental, as my pf is tight, I have apt, etc, but there are definitely guys who have those same physical issues but no PE. I would still work on the stretches and stuff to hopefully solve the root problem as well. Or maybe physical and mental are both root problems, and the mental side is just not "seeable" to me (though I think I'm a pretty self-aware person).

**Pegasus** · 11-12-2020

So you did all this work so you tell me. Post a link to your log,

**venom888** · 11-12-2020

I haven't updated it in a while
https://www.pegym.com/forums/prematu...h-summary.html

**Pegasus** · 11-12-2020

So you can't do hindi well due to hemeriods same rk have you been to a physio who does male pelvic floor ?

**venom888** · 11-12-2020

I posted an update in that other thread just now. I can't do RKs but I can do hindi now. I do a modified version, sitting on the ground, but it achieves the same thing. I don't do the regular version just because I can't stay balanced and it makes the backs of my feet hurt a lot (possibly from tight calves)

Have not seen a physio or talked to the dr about this at all really. I mentioned it briefly, telling him I was doing the stretches and stuff because I wanted to last longer, and he just said "you and everyone else"

**venom888** · 11-12-2020

I've been doing that modified hindi for probably close to a year now. Several months at least.

**Pegasus** · 11-12-2020

Given the apt and other issues a physio could also work on that is my advice.

**Pegasus** · 11-12-2020

By the way you realise that docs routinely fix hemorrhoid ?

**venom888** · 11-12-2020

I had internal ones removed. Unfortunately, while doing that, they actually caused the external ones that were not there before. External removal is not like internal. Internal is easy as cake, when they get it right. External is often regarded as one of the most painful surgery recoveries that there is. When they first caused my external one, it was thrombosed and the pain is like nothing I've ever experienced in my life. Pain that high does of morphine at the ER would not fix. Alternating high strength pain medicines every two hours, even overnight, for weeks. Was horrible. Hemorrhoidectomy is often that bad as well. My dr suggested I try my best to live with it than to do the surgery. Some people recover much better than that, but it's a spectrum. I'd rather not mess with it.