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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I can say that those drugs definitely increase libido!
For 6 months to a year...and then your body adjusts.
And I had an increased sex drive butI knew, like I said, in 5 minutes that it wasthe medication causing it.
Not knowing for years?!
No way.
The way she looks...I wouldn’t have wanted to see her see through blouse :)
Ha!
... but this is an isolated case, nothing more to worry about.
Please do not look at the correlation between the wide variety of psychosomatic prescriptions and the panoply of wack leftist behavior and thought. Do *not* search for “mental health drugs and liberals.”
Nope, that’s ‘normal.’ Conservatives are crazy. MAHA is racist. Go back to sleep.
I speak from experience.
Didn’t David Cronenberg make this movie decades ago?
LOL Art, you win the internet today :)
LOL !
Should i keep gaslighting her?
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