What drugs can cause sexual dysfunction? These drugs are easy to cause sexual dysfunction

In recent years, research at home and abroad has found that more than 50 kinds of drugs have adverse effects on sexual function, which is bound to attract people's attention.

Antihypertensive drugs

These drugs are closely related to sexual dysfunction such as decreased libido, loss of orgasm and impotence. If the daily dose of guanethidine is more than 25 mg, most male patients will have impotence, delayed ejaculation or inability to ejaculate and other adverse reactions, while female patients will have insufficient lubrication of the vagina and decreased libido. Although the daily dose of methyldopa is less than 1 gram, it will still lead to decreased sexual desire or impotence in men, amenorrhea, galactorrhea, decreased sexual excitement and loss of orgasm in women. Reserpine can also reduce the sexual desire of most male patients, leading to impotence and even depression. Therefore, patients with a history of depression should not choose reserpine. In addition, clonidine, hydrabendazine, methamine, and prazosin can also cause sexual dysfunction.

Anti-heart drugs

Digitalis, digoxin, cardiac tonic, etc. For congestive heart failure, it can lead to male sexual dysfunction or impotence. The treatment of arrhythmia can easily lead to decreased libido and impotence, when the daily dosage reaches 40-320 impotence.

Diuretic

Safe and comfortable has anti-androgen effect. If it is used for a long time, it will lead to low sexual function or impotence in men, irregular menstruation in women, amenorrhea, and even stop ovulation. Rapid urination and diuretic acid can induce hypokalemia, and then cause impotence, but it can be improved after potassium salt supplementation.

Anticancer drugs

Bactrian can promote testicular atrophy in men and amenorrhea in women. Cyclophosphamide can cause sperm and semen deficiency in men, amenorrhea or irregular menstruation in women

Antipsychotics

When the daily dosage of chlorpromazine reaches 400 mg, it will lead to decreased libido, impotence or testicular loss in male patients, and decreased or insufficient libido in female patients. Lithium carbonate can make some male patients unable to ejaculate or impotent. Long-term use of haloperidol will lead to impotence in male patients, irregular menstruation and low libido in female patients.

Sedative hypnotic

After long-term use of sedative drugs such as stability and tranquility and hypnotic drugs such as Lumina, Amital and Sukemian, male patients have decreased libido, impotence or loss of orgasm.

Hormones

When estradiol and ethinylestradiol are used in prostate cancer, impotence and ejaculation function will be damaged. Chlorogesterone can lead to decreased libido, impotence or decreased orgasm in men. If methyl testosterone and testosterone propionate are widely used for a long time, the testicles will atrophy, sperm and semen will decrease, affecting sexual desire. When the daily dose of prednisone reaches 30 mg, it will affect the production of sperm. Hydroprednisone can lead to semen deficiency.