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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Just one state.
(I take it your husband at least, and who knows what other gents about town, have appreciated your “treatment”.)
Honey, you really kick a lot in the night: Here’s a little prescription for you! ;-) ;-)
Exactly.. it’s another big pharma made up 3 letter disease to sell drugs for.
Hubby is my one and only, and yes, I think I keep him happy. However, I’ve always thought it was the empty nesting that helped us in the bedroom the most.
See my post 38.
They weren’t doing any drug commercials for restless legs when I was diagnosed 20 years ago. This is a newish things on the ads these days.
Little did you realize...
I’m not one for taking prescriptions every time the doc wants to add something. The ropinarole is the only one I take, and for me, it’s not just a sometimes irritating problem. It’s pretty much every night for me.
I hope you realize I’m just pulling your (restless) leg.
So by suppressing an urge to move one’s legs, the drug causes an urge to move other parts of the anatomy.
Yeah, the “Devil made me do it.” Right.
Mind, BBC = CNN.
Ropinirole is also used for Parkinson’s disease. Those patients take it several times a day.
FTTW
I wasn’t sure, but I’m glad to hear it.
hey, my wife’s name is claire...
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LOL! That’s harsh.
Note to self, don't giver her a credit card.
“restless 3rd leg syndrome”
Post of the day!
So... Ropinirole causes twerking and whoring?
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