Posted on 03/11/2025 6:02:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Patients prescribed drugs for movement disorders - including restless leg syndrome (RLS) - say doctors did not warn them about serious side effects that led them to seek out risky sexual behaviour.
Twenty women have told the BBC that the drugs - given to them for RLS, which causes an irresistible urge to move - ruined their lives.
A report by drugs firm GSK - seen by the BBC - shows it learned in 2003 of a link between the medicines, known as dopamine agonist drugs, and what it described as "deviant" sexual behaviour.
While there is no explicit reference to this side effect in patient leaflets, the UK medicines regulator told us there was a general warning about increased libido and harmful behaviour. GSK says a risk of "altered" sexual interest is also referred to in the leaflets.
Some of the women who described being drawn to risky sexual behaviour told us they had no idea of what was causing it. Others said they felt compelled to gamble or shop with no history of such activities. One accumulated debts of more than £150,000.
Like many women, Claire first developed RLS during her pregnancies. The relentless need to move was often accompanied by sleeplessness and a crawling sensation under her skin.
The condition persisted after giving birth and she was prescribed the dopamine agonist drug Ropinirole. She says she was not warned by doctors of any side effects. It initially worked wonders for her RLS, she says, but after a year or so she began feeling unprecedented sexual urges.
"The only way I could describe it is it was just deviant," she tells us - using that word without any knowledge of the GSK research which had established a link with such behaviour.
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Where can I get some?....Asking for a friend.....................
i am that friend.
New women’s Viagra
I will quietly follow this thread with interest.
How many people thought they had restless leg syndrome before they saw ads for it?
I call BS, my exe was on some RLS meds and quite the opposite happened.
You’re a perv. But let me know where we can get some.
I can see this becoming the #2 counterfeited drug in the world.
#1 is Viagra....................
So my wife …
Reminds me of a woman sitting next to me on a plane ride who would sneeze and then shake uncontrollably, then collapse in her seat, exhausted. She did this about five times in an hour into the flight and I asked if there was something wrong.
She said she had an unusual problem. Whenever she sneezed, she had a powerful orgasm that left her spent.
I asked if she were taking anything for the problem and she said, “Yes, mainly black pepper.”
Spanish fly is real!
I take Wellbutrin for 15 years now.
After a head injury...I had issues with things that dealt with dopamine or needed dopamine to function better.
I didn’t need the big guns like L Dopa but I did need help and Wellbutrin was PERFECT!
At 56, if I forget a day’s dose...well the next day’s dose has an added...Kick :)
On those nights, my wife looks 25 years old to me and I feel 25 years old :)
They dont call it “the poor man’s cocaine” for nothing!!
But seriously, you have to crush it and snort it to get a cocaine high...and I’m good with the pills swallowed whole :)
Wellbutrin was prescribed to me as a quit smoking aide.
I didn’t use it. I just quit.................
So what’s the problem?
Just here for the comments
As far as you know!
Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry
Ah, yet another example of Schrodinger’s Feminist: Anything PRO == ‘cuz she’s fiercely independent & can EVERYTHING !wyman can do (& MORE!). Any CON was 100% outside of their agency & thus a ‘victim’.
“I had ZERO self-control cause of my RLS meds” *rolls eyes*
Claire says she began leaving her house in the early hours of the morning to cruise for sex. Wearing a see-through top and jacket, she would flash her chest at any man she could find. She did this regularly, she says, and in increasingly dangerous locations, despite having a partner.
Claire says it took years to connect these urges with her medication - and they disappeared almost immediately when she stopped taking it...
YEARS?!?!
It took me 6 minutes to figure out that my wellbutrin was the reason for my renewed “vigor”. And it’s not even as strong as this med, I don’t think
I smell a rat.
That’s even better. Always better if it can be done without pills.
Without the Wellbutrin...my old issues come back.
It concerns me that if I am having dopamine issues now and that is the cause of parkinsons, will I be in trouble early in life?
But no point dwelling on it.
I’m glad you quit!!
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