“I Want a New Drug!” - Preliminary reports on Paroxetine for Premature Ejaculation
Astudy published in the Journal of Urology recently revealed some interesting data. The experiment included twenty-six male test subjects who were plagued by the sexual dysfunction of premature ejaculation. Thirteen of them were each given 20 mg tablets of paroxetine, the others were given dummy tablets, aka placebos.
Told to take one tablet several hours before intercourse, those given the dummy tablet climaxed, on average, a mere half a minute after entering their partner's vagina. For those who ingested the real paroxetine tablets, the average time from vaginal penetration to ejaculation was 3.4 minutes. [1]
In a related study, participants who took paroxetine every day for three weeks, then afterwards only when needed for sex, experienced even better results. They reported that the average time from penetration to ejaculation was a whopping six minutes – a miracle considering that each examinee had a lifetime of premature ejaculation affliction.
But it wasn’t all fireworks and giddiness, as the majority of the men reported multiple side effects like nausea, somnolence, sweating, tremors, asthenia, dizziness, dry mouth, and insomnia. Long-term studies of the potentially harmful effects of paroxetine may still be in progress or have just not yet been released or published.
Predictably, caution is recommended when the drug is administered to patients with a history of seizures. During clinical trials, a small percentage of incidence of seizures occurred in patients treated with paroxetine. However, patients with a history of convulsive disorders were excluded from these studies.
Despite the limited success of the drug, many of the participants revealed that they had made nearly the same progress with natural herbal remedies, and admittedly opted to stick with them rather than endure the adverse side effects of the pharmaceutical pills.