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Condition	Description	Typical Treatment Approach	Alternative Options
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder	Low sexual desire in women	Medication, counseling	Therapy, lifestyle changes
Postmenopause Libido Loss	Reduced libido after menopause	Hormone therapy, medications	Vaginal lubricants, counseling
Sexual Arousal Disorder	Difficulty achieving arousal	Available medications	Relaxation techniques

Addyi will come with a prominent "boxed warning" about side effects, including among people with liver impairment or who take Addyi with alcohol or with medicines known as CYP3A4 inhibitors that include certain steroids. Originally developed by Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim under its chemical name flibanserin, it was first rejected by the FDA in 2010 after an advisory panel said the benefits did not outweigh the risks.

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health regulators on Tuesday, but with a warning about potentially dangerous low blood pressure and fainting side effects, especially when taken with alcohol. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the pink pill, to be sold under the brand name Addyi and made by privately held Sprout Pharmaceuticals, will only be available through certified and specially trained health care professionals and pharmacies due to its safety issues. Addyi, whose chemical name is flibanserin, is designed for premenopausal women whose lack of sexual desire causes distress. The condition is formally known as hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or HSDD.

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The drug needs to be taken daily. Addyi has been nicknamed the "female Viagra" even though it does not work like Pfizer Inc's blockbuster Viagra pill for men that in weekend viagra 1998 became the first approved drug for erectile dysfunction. "This is the biggest breakthrough in women's sexual health since the advent of 'the Pill'" for contraception, The National Consumers League said in a statement. "It validates (and) legitimizes female sexuality as an important component of health." But Public Citizen, a consumer watchdog group that testified against the drug earlier this year, predicted that Addyi will be pulled from the market within a few years because of "serious dangers to women, with little benefit" to them. "Unfortunately, we haven't heard the last of this drug." The FDA had twice rejected the Raleigh, North Carolina-based firm's drug. Sprout acquired the drug, conducted additional studies and resubmitted the application.

• Filbanserin (Addyi) is not available on the standard NHS drug tariff.
• Vyleesi (Bremelanotide) is also not routinely funded by the NHS in the UK.
• Ospemifene (Senshio) may be prescribed on the NHS for specific menopausal symptoms.
• Testosterone is used off-label, and funding can vary by local Clinical Commissioning Group.
• Most treatments for FSD are primarily accessed through private prescription.
• Private consultation costs range from £50-£250, plus the cost of medication.
• Some private health insurance policies may cover specialist consultations and treatments.

In 2013, the FDA rejected it again.

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The rejection sparked a lobbying campaign by Sprout, aided by some women's groups who accused the FDA of gender bias because it had approved Viagra for men - a charge the FDA vigorously rejected. The FDA approved Addyi despite a rocky relationship in recent years with the founders of Sprout.

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They wonder, ‘Will my partner leave me?’ and, ‘Am I undesirable or inadequate?’” There are some who wonder if they are missing out on pleasure, she said, but that was not their main anxiety. “They are talking about not being good enough or not measuring up. People have a perception that everybody else is having fantastic sex all the time with exotic positions.” There is, Boynton said, “anxiety brought about by misinformation about sex”, which is perpetuated by the media and especially men’s and women’s magazines. “The cultural wallpaper is telling you that to keep someone and be desirable and not left alone, which is a huge fear, you must be having and providing frequent sex.” Addyi could help a small number of women, but Boynton pointed out that, like the other drugs for sexual problems, it had only been tested against placebos. It would have been interesting, she said, to trial it against candles and bathnights and sex toys – and, for that matter, relationship therapy.

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The drug will be on sale in the US from October. Sprout has not said whether it will apply for a licence to sell it in Europe, but if it did, the verdict might not necessarily be the same. “I would be surprised if it is licensed here,” said Boynton. “But whether it is licensed or not, it will still perpetuate the illusion that if you don’t have desire, there is something wrong with you.” 1970 Masters and Johnson publish “Human Sexual Inadequacy”, the result of over a decade of work at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St Louis. Clinical research into the causes of sexual dysfunction had begun. The chief executive of Sprout, Cindy Whitehead, co-founded the company with her husband Robert Whitehead in 2011 after selling another small drugmaker they had founded called Slate Pharmaceuticals which had received repeated warnings from the FDA about its marketing tactics.

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But the latest decision comes after an advisory panel concluded in June it should be approved with strict measures in place to ensure patients are fully aware of the risks. Sprout officials could not immediately be reached for comment. The news sent shares of Palatin Technologies, which is creating a rival drug for HSDD, up about 30 percent to $1.21 in extended trade. Palatin's experimental treatment called bremelanotide is now in late-stage trials and works differently from Addyi. It attempts to activate certain brain pathways.

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Palatin in a statement late Tuesday said its drug, if approved, would only be taken as needed, not on a daily basis like Addyi, thereby providing women "greater control and flexibility in their treatment." Unlike Viagra, which affects blood flow to the genitals, Addyi is meant to activate sexual impulses in the brain. It is similar to a class of other drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI's, that include antidepressants such as Prozac. But those antidepressants, which raise levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, are known to blunt libido. Addyi blocks certain cellular receptors from responding to serotonin. Women who took Addyi in a clinical study had an increase of about one sexually satisfying event per month compared with those taking a placebo. Slate marketed an implantable testosterone pellet for men with low levels of the male sexual hormone, called Testopel. In one FDA warning letter, issued on March 24, 2010, the FDA said Slate had improperly inferred on its Testopel website and in a video that the testosterone product could help patients with depression, erectile dysfunction, diabetes and HIV.

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1998 Viagra licensed in the USA and Europe, but rationed in the UK to men who were impotent because of physical illness only. Health secretary Frank Dobson said it would prove a serious drain on NHS resources. Pfizer stumbled across the drug when testing the chemical compound sildenafil citrate to treat high blood pressure and angina. Patients developed erections, and a blockbuster was born. 2004 Hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women is included in the psychiatrists’ bible, the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in the USA.

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It is classified as “persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity” causing “marked distress or interpersonal difficulty”. Drug companies worked on treatments including the use of Viagra in women. October 2010 The FDA rejects Boehringer Ingelheim’s flibanserin for female sexual disorder, saying there is little evidence it increases libido and citing unacceptable side-effects. August 2015 FDA approves flibanserin, given the brand name Addyi by Sprout, but with a black box warning of side-effects. WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first drug to treat low sexual desire in women won approval from U.S. The Whiteheads could not be reached for comment late on Tuesday about Addyi's approval and their earlier encounters with the FDA. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.

Side Effect	Percentage of Users	Severity	Notes
Nausea	15%	Mild	Usually mild, transient
Headache	20%	Mild to Moderate	Common among users
Dizziness	10%	Mild	Typically subsides
Insomnia	8%	Mild	Reported in some cases

Back when Viagra was first marketed, some sexual health experts suggested that it might work in women as well as men, providing a pharmacological aid for women with low levels of arousal (sometimes termed ‘female sexual dysfunction’ or ‘female sexual arousal disorder’).

Brand	Dosage	Frequency	Best Taken With	Duration of Effect
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LibidoBoost	50 mg	As needed	With water	2-4 hours
FemaleMax	75 mg	Once daily	With meal	3-5 hours

But it hasn’t worked that well in women -- suggesting there’s something about arousal in male versus female parts that differs physiologically. (It does help some women: A 2008 study, for example, showed women on antidepressants who had sagging libidos were helped some by the little blue pill.) Now scientists at Pfizer -- the company that discovered Viagra’s sexual effects by chance while searching for a treatment for high blood pressure and angina -- say they’ve taken an important step in finding such a drug.

• The first FDA-approved female libido drug was flibanserin, marketed as Addyi in the US and sometimes available in the UK.
• Female Viagra aims to target conditions like low libido, which can be caused by hormonal or psychological issues.
• The effectiveness of female Viagra varies between individuals; some report notable improvements.
• Cost of female libido medications in the UK varies and may not be covered by NHS prescriptions.
• Researchers continue to explore new treatments for female sexual dysfunction with promising results.
• Natural alternatives include herbal supplements like ginseng or maca, but their efficacy is not well-proven.
• Discussing sexual health openly with a healthcare professional is recommended before starting treatment.
• Some women use off-label medications or supplements to boost libido, but safety isn't always assured.
• Female Viagra is not suitable for everyone; medical history and other medications should be considered.

You can read about their findings, published in the British Journal of Pharmacology, in a news release titled ‘Towards Treating Female Sexual Dysfunction: Research Reveals Secrets of Female Sexual Arousal.’ Or if you need calming down after all this sizzly sex talk, check out the research paper ‘UK-414,495, a selective inhibitor of neutralendopeptidase, potentiates pelvic nerve-stimulated increases in female genital blood flow in the anaesthetized rabbit.’ The last animal in the world needing help in the breeding department, but that’s biomedical research for you.

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“Patients and prescribers should fully understand the risks associated with the use of Addyi before considering treatment.” The FDA wants Sprout to do further studies of the impact of alcohol. The one it carried out involved 25 people, of whom 23 were men. Graham believes there is little chance doctors will hold off prescribing it for women who drink or who are post-menopause. Even in the hours after the announcement of the licence “we could see signs that the drug is not going to be prescribed only to women who are pre-menopausal and don’t drink”, she said. Dr Irwin Goldstein, who heads the San Diego sexual medicine centre and has been a consultant to Sprout, told the New York Times he would not refuse to give it to casual drinkers.

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There are also questions about the true scale of unmet need. The often used statistic that more than two-fifths of all women – 43% – experience loss of sexual desire dates from a survey in 1999 which failed to ask women whether they were actually worried by that. The bigger and more recent National Attitudes and Sexual Lifestyles study in the UK found that about 10% of women had low libido and were experiencing distress as a result. Dr Petra Boynton, an agony aunt and psychologist who has researched sexual functioning, says losing interest in sex is a real worry for women, “But what are they actually worried about? They think they are not normal because they don’t want sex that much.