Comment on Parkinson's sufferer wins six figure payout from GlaxoSmithKline over drug that turned him into a 'gay sex and gambling addict'

• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you really think the average person would think “oh, surely there’s a straightforward medical explanation” instead of being ashamed & hiding the issue? Especially if they weren’t informed of this being a side effect of their medication?

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  • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If it came on suddenly after taking the medication? Yeah. Absolutely. That’s actually what doctors are relying on, is being informed when things change.

    I have literally gone to the doctor and asked if my embarrassing side effect could be because of a medication. It was, so I stopped taking that medication.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How do you know it came on suddenly? The article says:

      Within two years of beginning to take the drug the married father-of-two says he developed an uncontrollable passion for gay sex and gambling - at one point even selling his children’s toys to fund his addiction.

      “Within two years” implies that it developed over this time frame. That’s anything but sudden, especially since it most likely started off with sporadic impulses and got more intense over time - how addictions usually go.

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      • calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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