Friday, September 08, 2006
Alza - dapoxetine: disease mongering in the bedroom again
Men on SSRI antidepressants, like Prozac and Seroxat, sometimes experience side effects that affect their sexual perfomance.
Some men complain of dulled sexual sensation and delayed orgasm.
Ahha, thought some bright spark!
Lets turn this negative into a positive and see if SSRI's can be used to treat premature ejaculation.
Step up dapoxetine
Today The Lancet publishes the results of trials carried out at 121 centres in the United States. Men were randomly given either placebos or different doses of dapoxetine. As is typical in sexual studies, the placebo proved pretty effective, prolonging intercourse from less than one minute to 1.75 minutes. But the drug did better. A 30mg dose produced 2.78 minutes and a 60mg dose 3.32 minutes.
While hardly Don Juan standard, this was a significent result, marred only by some side-effects.
Nausea, diarrhoea, headache and dizziness were reported.
Nevertheless, the team, led by Professor Jon Pryor, of the University of Minnesota, concluded that dapoxetine was “an effective and generally well- tolerated treatment for men with moderate-to-severe premature ejaculation”.
Source: Times Online
Insider can see the combo-pill with Viagra already!
But where is the "disease mongering" side to this story?
The press are quoting premature ejaculation as being a condition affecting a third of men.
Insider wonders where that figure came from!
So guys, when you and a couple of buddies get together for a beer remember that statistically, one of you is letting the side down in the bedroom department! That's if these figures are to be believed!