23-year-old Scott Pardee has been on the drug Pregabalin and claims it turned him gay It is noteworthy that the man refuses to stop using it, as he feels happier. Writes about this Daily Mail.
Pregabalin is used to treat anxiety and also as a pain reliever. According to Scott, he first started taking the drug in 2012 after he broke his leg and was in severe pain.
Soon after, the guy noticed that he lost his attraction to his girlfriend, but there was a strange feeling of gaining the attention of another man. Scott got very scared of this and temporarily stopped taking the medicine. After that, the attraction to her friend returned, and the attraction to men disappeared.
“But then the pain started again and I felt unwell and I started taking Pregabalin again,” Scott says.
Soon, Scott Pardee was finally hooked on Pregabalin. Now he is very afraid to stop using it, because after everything that he has experienced, he does not want to return to his original state.
“It's all very confusing for me. I don't know for sure if these pills are to blame, but when I stopped taking them, I felt very unhappy."
After taking the pills, Scott began to like only guys, and he broke up with his girlfriend.
“Before the break, I enjoyed the life and attention of the girls, whom I had a lot. When I was 16 or 17, there was one guy I knew who was gay. For fun I kissed him once, and then I thought “No, this is definitely not for me” and forgot about it.
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But in 2012, I broke my leg and my leg hurt a lot. I was prescribed codeine and tramadol, but they made me very unpleasant. Then I was prescribed Pregabalin and just 4 or 5 days later I had this strange feeling. My friend knew that I was taking medication and she immediately felt that something had happened because I almost stopped paying attention to her."
Scott Pardee assures that he never felt any prejudice towards sexual minorities and does not want to offend anyone, but he is 100% sure that before taking the medicine he never had any desire to be with a man and it was the pills that made him gay.
Purdy has not been in touch with his family for a long time for other reasons, so he does not know what their reaction was to his changes, but among his friends, many called everything that happened very strange.
Dr. Range Singh, who is also gay, says Pregabalin is just pain relief and anxiety reduction, but he cannot transform anyone from heterosexual to gay. Singh's version of the reduction in anxiety affected Scott's personality and simply revealed his "true" orientation.
"In my professional opinion, he always had these feelings and if Pardee feels happy now, then it's a very good thing."
However, Singh does not recommend that the guy sit on pills for a long time and says that he needs to try to be happy without drugs. The doctor also adds that he himself took Pregabalin and that he did not make him much more pronounced gay than he is.
Pregabalin is manufactured by Pfizer and a company spokesman commented on the situation, saying that clinical trials had been conducted on thousands of patients before the drug went on sale, and nothing like this had ever been observed.
However, the pregabalin label states that erectile dysfunction, decreased libido, and euphoria are common side effects. Less common are mood swings, delayed ejaculation, increased libido, and sexual dysfunction.