Since being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD), I have been educating myself about the condition. During that exploration, I learned that there can be a connection between PD and crossdressing.
Simply put, some medications used to treat PD can affect behavior, sexuality, and impulse control. In some cases, this can include crossdressing or other changes in gender expression.
Some PD patients develop dramatic increases in sexual interest or new sexual behaviors. These may include increased libido, unusual sexual interests, compulsive pornography use, fetishistic behaviors, or emerging or intensifying crossdressing. When this happens, the behavior is usually compulsive and linked to the medication rather than to a person’s long-standing identity. Often the behaviors diminish or disappear when the medication is stopped or adjusted.
For patients like me, who have crossdressed for decades, PD medications typically do not create the behavior. It already exists as part of the person’s identity or interests. In most cases, the medication either has no effect or simply loosens inhibitions slightly, making the person a bit more open about it.
Personally, I have not noticed any difference. However, I have only been taking the medication for a month, so the jury is still out.
And so it goes.
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Without wanting to scare anyone if you or anyone interested can get BBC iplayer, this is worth listening too in this situation https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rdp3
ReplyDeleteSorry to learn you have PD, hope you can manage it and keep all symptoms to an absolute minimum, maybe if you increase the time you spend fully crossdressed, and do it to an even more feminine degree, that might be a way to assuage any other effects of PD. BTW, if you haven't seen Apple TV's 'Shrinking' you must check it out. Harrision Ford plays a shrink who develops PD in the later seasons, and then Michael J. Fox becomes his patient. The show depicts how they manage their lives with PD.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to imagine what it will be like when you're LESS inhibited, sister. ;-)
ReplyDeleteMuch love to you as you navigate this. Long-term health conditions are a b-tch. You most decidedly, though, are not.
73 de Trish
Hello Stana,
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Courage and trust in life
Patsy
Well, well, who'd have thought the side effects of medication would be to make cis people dress more fabulously!
ReplyDeleteReceptionist: "Doctor, there's a drag queen in the waiting room."
Doctor: "Ah, that'll be my Parkinsons patient. Please walk this way, Sir."
Patient: "I can't walk that way, not in these tight foundation garments!"
Sue xx
I believe the hyper-sexual behaviour is specific to a class of medications called "dopomine agonists", but not the basic Levadopa/Carbidopa that most of us PD patients start with. Good luck from a fellow CD/PD.
ReplyDeleteKnow that you are in my prayers, Sweetie.
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