No doubt, antidepressant drugs lessen your depression, but do you know that they can also lower sperm counts in men.
Dr. Peter Schlegel of the Cornell Medical Center in New York and colleagues were treating two men for infertility and found that when both these patients stopped taking antidepressant drugs their sperm counts increased amazingly. On the contrary, when they again started taking antidepressant drug their infertility problem once again returned back.
These doctors are seeing, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), means these antidepressant drugs as the main culprit behind the drop of sperm count.
However, this conclusion is too preliminary therefore; it would be too early to make an opinion about it. Coming out with the same idea Allan Pacey, senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield says:
There does seem to be a major correlation. Maybe this is an unknown side effect of these drugs that is only just coming to light.
However, before taking any kind of antidepressant drugs it would be better to take counsel of a reliable doctor.
[Source:depressionblog]
