Yeah that makes sense. But I like hearing from people in my position, who take the meds, rather than just dish them out.

In my experience doctors can be dismissive of your concerns, perhaps because they’re busy and overworked.

Thanks for this reply. To be honest I’m not so worried about the well-known sexual side effects. Instead I worry about fertility effects. The paper I mentioned in the OP says that fertility should return to normal when you come off SSRIs, so I guess that’s good. But then I came across an article mentioning a study on rats, where they apparently found impaired fertility “which persisted after the drug was stopped”.

I bet most local doctors don’t even know of these effects. They’ll know about erectile dysfunction etc, but this is something different to that.

Maybe I’m worrying too much, I don’t know. I wonder if anybody on this site has heard of these effects before.