Anyone Familiar With Adverse Sexual Side-Effects From Parkinson’s Disease Medications?
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at
5:11 am
JJ asked:
More and more Parkinsonians are coming forward complaining about strange and odd behavioral and impulse control problems they believe stem from the medications that they have to take to help relieve the symptoms they have from Parkinsons Disease.
Some of these individuals got the idea from the Mirapex commercials that had been playing on TV. I know the commercials say it’s for RLS (restless leg syndrome), but Mirapex has also been prescribed to PD patients for quite a while, and some of the side-effects indicated are “impulse gambling” and “hypersexuality”.
Mirapex and other dopamine agonist (PD meds) do effect the part of the brain that deals with impulse control, but thats also the area where the dopamine agonists need to go in order to help relieve PD symptoms. So what does a person who is stricken with a disabling disease do when they are also having this “urge” or “impulse” to gamble their money away or seek out *********** or worse, act out sexually in a inappropriate way?
More and more Parkinsonians are coming forward complaining about strange and odd behavioral and impulse control problems they believe stem from the medications that they have to take to help relieve the symptoms they have from Parkinsons Disease.
Some of these individuals got the idea from the Mirapex commercials that had been playing on TV. I know the commercials say it’s for RLS (restless leg syndrome), but Mirapex has also been prescribed to PD patients for quite a while, and some of the side-effects indicated are “impulse gambling” and “hypersexuality”.
Mirapex and other dopamine agonist (PD meds) do effect the part of the brain that deals with impulse control, but thats also the area where the dopamine agonists need to go in order to help relieve PD symptoms. So what does a person who is stricken with a disabling disease do when they are also having this “urge” or “impulse” to gamble their money away or seek out *********** or worse, act out sexually in a inappropriate way?
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Personally I think this side effect has been exagerated. My husband has been taking some of these medications for many years with no problems. He also belongs to a support group for Parkinson’s disease and no one in the group has had any problems. His neurologist told him his has had no patients complain of these problems. I think too often if people have a problem they look for something to blame it on.
agonists like Mirapex and Requip can produce side effects like hypersexuality, compulsive behaviors, overspending, etc . Not to everyone but it is often dose related. Those side effects can be very destructive