How Does Flibanserin (Addyi) Improve Women’s Sex Drive
Female Viagra is a drug called Flibanserin in Australia. This drug is commonly known by the name Addyi. Flibanserin was originally designed to be be a be an antidepressant, but the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for women with low sexual drive in postmenopausal females. A common acronym used in the medical industry is FSIAD which stands for female sexual interest/arousal disorder. FSIAD is also known as HSDD or hypoactive sexual desire disorder. The Food and Drug Administration approved this drug for use in 2015. The pill when prescribed by a medical doctor is to be taken daily. This pill helps boost sexual drive in women who find sex to be distressing.
Addyi treats conditions related to hypo-active sexual desire disorder which is a mental condition in which a lock f absence of fantasies an the lack of sexual activity are present. Addyi is responsible for changing the brain chemistry. Rights to sell the drug manufactured by the Sprout Pharmaceuticals was granted in 2015.
What does Addyi do
The are a few side effects to the drug as well. Some uses the effects can be low blood pressure. Other users stated that they have experienced dizziness and fainting especially if the drug is mixed with alcohol. Doctors and experts say if the sexual drive has not increased over the period of eight weeks to discontinue the medication. Vyleesi is an injectable medication which also has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for low sexual drive for postmenopausal women. This medicine is designed to be injected into the abdomen or thigh about forty five minutes before sexual activity. Manufactures warn that Vylessi should not be used more that once in a twenty four hour period, or taken more than eight times in a calendar month.
Addyi is usually prescribed to be taken at bed time. Addyi is the first hypoactive sexual disorder drug that was to receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration in June of 2019. Addyi is a daily pill while its counterpart Vyleesi is a injectable that is used in a as needed basis.
Side effects
Some common side effects to the well known medication include loss of sleep, nausea, and dizziness. Users are requested to take the pill daily in order for the full effect to take place. Not all females respond the same way to the medication. Many preexisting conditions my be present that allow difficulties with arousal and a lack of sexual desire. Many women deem that stress is a huge trigger to slow their sexual desire. Major life changing events may also dampen desire such as pregnancy or the onset of menopause. Flibanserin is not a well understood drug. When an individual takes the drug, the levels of dopamine and norepinephrine in the body are elevated. Dopamine helps raise sexual drive. The hormone Norepinephrine has a direct line to allow for sexual arousal. This drug does not produce instant female arousal.
What the WHO says
According to the World Health Organization Addyi is a medication which was created in the United States with proven results to increase the libido in women. During testing of the drug, only half of them tested on the drug showed an increase in sexual desire. At date of publication there are non available drugs in Australia. Women who want to obtain the effects of these drugs must buy them though an online drug store on the internet. The cost of the medication in United states dollars is a little less than a dollar a day and about United States Dollars.
Costs are similar by comparison in Australia at a month supply costing in the neighborhood of about $AU225. Most of these type drugs are delivered though mail order systems.
Similar drugs
Unlike Viagra which was invented in 1989 by the Pfizer company it was not until 25 years latter until a similar drug was available for women. In 2017 the Journal of Sexual Medicine published an article stating that seventy percent of Australian women between the ages of forty to sixty five years old surveyed with a lack of sexual drive. In a pole given to Swiss women between 18 and 73, sixty-one percent of the women needed some sort of sexuality increasing drug and were willing to take the drug.
Medical Practitioner (General Practice) with postgraduate diplomas in Cape Town. My special interest is erectile dysfunction.