Man says Parkinson’s drug turned him into gay sex addict

leatherbear

A French man is suing pharmaceuticals giant Glaxo because he claims that a drug used to treat his Parkinson’s disease turned him into a gay sex addict.

Didier Jambart, a married father from Nantes, began taking Requip in 2003 but says his behaviour changed dramatically as a result.

His lawyers say he became addicted to gay sex and indulged in risky behavior which led to him being raped.

He is also said to have started cross-dressing, exposing himself on the internet and gambling.

Mr Jambart says his behaviour led to him losing the family’s savings and attempting suicide three times.

He stopped taking the drug in 2005 and his behaviour returned to normal.

However, he says that his addictions caused him psychological trauma and he was demoted at work.

He is seeking damages from Glaxo and from his neurologist, who he says did not warn him about the drug’s side effects.

Requip and other Parkinson’s drugs have been linked to obsessive and addictive behaviours before.

In November, Pete Shepherd, a former councillor from Hull, said he had become a gambling, sex-addicted cross dresser after taking Cabergoline for symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

He spent £400,000 on a luxury lifestyle and received a conditional discharge for a £45,000 eBay fraud in 2009 after a judge ruled that the drug had affected his ability to tell right from wrong.

Mr Shepherd stopped taking Cabergoline in 2008 and says his behaviour has returned to normal.

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pacifico

Hmmmm, I don't know $:-\$

I know that some type of medicines are bad for the behaviour or even for the hormones, for the body, but here it seems to me that this man knew exactly what to do.

I only hope everything is going to be fine with no dire times ahead.

martini20

I know there's usually a list of side effects on drugs as long as your arm, but cross-dressing !

notquiteme

Maybe it's like alcohol and releases his inhibitions. i don't think he has the right to blame the drugs for his erratic behavior, if they were originally there and only being inhibited.

Spintendo

Im curious how much traction this story would have gotten if it was just "Man becomes sex addict" instead of "Gay Sex" addict, almost like the G-word adds some measure of infamy and salaciousness to a story that is then peddled by the mostly straight run media. Another thing fascinating to me is how the story is being perceived in different blogospheres:

— According to FoxNews-derived comments/chatter, the man is lying and using the medication towards a hopeful rendez-vous with a sweet payday (a pro business stance seen as more than plausible by red-state citizens)…..

— Not so, according to Gay Media outlet blogs/chatter, where the man is believed to be experiencing a resurgence of hidden, latent homosexual urges that were buried deep down in his psyche (pro-gay stance seen as plausible in a world where gay people are sidelined to the margins of society)....

— And then there are a few of the more bizarre conspiracy flavored blogs that claim the government have had for years now in their arsenal many of these types of biotoxic/neurotoxic hormone disrupting/chemical agents, a sinister armamentarium of drugs that can turn people into hermaphrodite zombies, and that the entire Illuminati/GSK-run experiment is only in the beginning stages (pro-paranoid stance).

And after all that, nobody has even wondered if hes still got the Parkinsons!

underlvr

Can we get a prescription for Michael J. Fox?

notquiteme

I don't like the fact that Michael J Fox has it. What I am glad, though, is that he is willing to go on camera even if he's sick, which will help more people understand what Parkinson's is, and be more compassionate.