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Sexual Side Effects
Wed, 03/29/2006 - 14:24Comments
Re: Sexual Side Effects
Submitted by jencas16 on Wed, 2008-09-17 - 00:16
Re: Sexual Side Effects
Submitted by chicko on Sun, 2008-11-23 - 06:52
i have e and take the drug Epanutin at 200mg twice a day.i have got useless sex drive and don`t know what if anything i can do.i`m 42 years old.any advice welcome.
i have e and take the drug Epanutin at 200mg twice a day.i have got useless sex drive and don`t know what if anything i can do.i`m 42 years old.any advice welcome.
Re: Sexual Side Effects
Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Sun, 2008-11-30 - 06:13
Is this limited to Sexual Side Effects of AEDs, or does it include the Sexual Side Effects of Epilepsy too, which secondarily includes AEDs? AEDs improves performance for individuals like me who had untreated temporal lobe epilepsy throughout childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. It is still about as much fun as doing a rep of any other exercise, but the doctrine of "use it or lose it" might be true. TLE left me in innocence for a long time, being more occupied by things still more important: chasing butterflies, wondering why soap bubbles are spherical, to trying to decide if honeybees in truth make hexagonal honeycombs. (These things ARE IMPORTANT for science, just ask Nabokov, Feynman, and von Frisch.) TLE didn't protect me from having my innocence stolen, by individuals denouncing the very act, such absurdity gave me the lasting mischievousness of Puck and arrogance of Tadzio, though apathetic indifference is the TLE rule otherwise, with a strong dose of skepticism and contempt of authoritarians. The economics of American reality and TLE turned parts of my youth into a nightmarish epileptic version of MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO, but I managed to emerge fairly unscathed. My fleeting youth may have left me with worsening TLE, and now gran mals, at least my absence of youth has neutralized the annoying face-to-face fascination and questioning of many physically pesky and trouble-making individuals about my TLE apathy, even though they had no interest or knowledge in epilepsy.