What other drugs will affect Flibanserin?
Flibanserin HCL Mechanism of action,
it acts on neurotransmitter pathways, both excitatory and inhibitory.
Flibanserin must be taken every day
and is being marketed as a drug to increase desire.
Flibanserin, Pfaus suspects,
will be most effective with women who are highly organized and always planning ahead.
In Pfaus' lab, rats whose ovaries had been removed were administered a low dose of estradiol and
then Flibanserin.
While the interpersonal issues need to be addressed, Flibanserin might help Stacey to feel spontaneous desire
and to be“in the moment.”.
The article implied that Flibanserin targeted the wrong kind of desire-
spontaneous desire- and that therefore the whole enterprise was a bad idea.
Exactly five years ago, after huge campaigns both promoting and denouncing the drug, the FDA rejected it,
citing Flibanserin's side effects and limited efficacy.
If the FDA decides this summer that the benefits of Flibanserin outweigh the medical risks, then a
few years from now we will have all learned a lot more about what this drug can and can't do- and for whom?