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Record W4414471052 · doi:10.1093/sexmed/qfaf073

The use of tirzepatide to successfully treat persistent genital arousal disorder/genitopelvic dysesthesia: a case report

2025· article· en· W4414471052 on OpenAlex
Eliza Burr, Maya Roytman, Évéline Poirier, Marta Kolbuszewska, James G. Pfaus, Barry R. Komisaruk, Irwin Goldstein, Rachel Rubin

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Bibliographic record

VenueSexual Medicine · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSexual function and dysfunction studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArousalMechanism (biology)Sexual arousalSex organMEDLINESexual dysfunction

Abstract

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Introduction: Persistent genital arousal disorder/genitopelvic dysesthesia (PGAD/GPD) is associated with poor quality of life. Due to social stigma and its heterogeneous nature, many patients suffer without treatment. Aims: This case presents the first example of the successful use of a glucagon-like peptide 1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor agonist (GLP1/GIP RA) medication for the treatment of PGAD/GPD. Methods: The patient was identified by the Sexual Medicine Research Team, retained as a patient at a sexual medicine clinic, and interviewed for the purposes of this case report. Results: This case presents a 44-year-old woman with a lifelong history of PGAD/GPD symptoms that caused extreme distress and depression who experienced 95% resolution of her symptoms within 2 days of starting tirzepatide, a GLP1/GIPRA medication, for weight loss. Conclusion: Increasing benefits of GLP1/GIPRAs are being uncovered, and further studies must investigate the potential for these medications to be used in patients with PGAD/GPD. This study also provides a potential mechanism for decreased arousal resulting from GLP1/GIP receptor activation in attention/reward pathways in the brain.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.394
Threshold uncertainty score0.650

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it