My Painkillers Turned Me Gay | This Morning

describe your life before the accident well before the accident I was just a normal life go out with people and join us all gone girlfriends yeah yeah quite a few had you ever experimented when I was 16 or 17 I was a little curious and there was a lot done now that was gay right started kissing him or not but then I turned around now and said now listen to me mm-hmm okay so then you continued your life and like you said you had a girlfriend you were with other girls so are to this accident then so you were you were hospitalized for a month and they told you you'd never fully recovered that you'd have to take these painkillers how quickly after taking these painkillers did you notice a change well basically I think this is where there's been a bit of a mistake with papers I broke my foot in 2012 and from there on up to 2000 and well this year early this year I've been on codeine and other kind of medication like tramadol but they weren't very nice yeah start to make me feel sick and tramadol make me feel feel really ill so that's when they prescribed me pre Goblin and I've been taking lessons about early February and this is the drug that you say has made this change so as soon as you start taking that how how soon after that did you start having feelings towards men about four or five days really quickly yes and what did you what was your girlfriend's cuz you were quite open with your girlfriend about yes well my girlfriend knew that I was taking these medications cuz I'm on more than one a month quite a few and I started I didn't say anything at first not to her but I started like giving her less cuddles less just attention and that and then for all I craved and wanted was just male attention Riya so I thought I thought it were bit weird so I just stopped a lot medication everything he sort of did an experiment really just to see whether or not hmm I just I just stopped everything you know just in case and as soon as that happened and I stopped taking it my sexual attraction towards my ex-girlfriend went back or yeah it's more intimate with a more cuddly with her and just everything normal then pain start building up in my fort so I thought I'm gonna start taking all my pain killers again yeah and and you say now that I'm alone so you've broken up with a girlfriend yes because you've decided to stay on the painkillers and and that and that you would fight anyone who said they were gonna take them off you now because this is the this is the life that yeah I'm really happy now I'm on it and I know now the fear is that I stop taking it I start going back to how I was yeah I want to do I think that there are you know great many members of the LGBT community who who would get very offended in the fact that the homosexuality you know could even be remotely looked at as being a medical condition and so so I'd have to say don't you think that because there are one of the side effects of this drug is that it lowers your anxiety is the fact that you feel much more comfortable about the fact that you were gay all along well you see I never had no desires for men I didn't look upon men like I really want you or anything like that so recent and happened so out of the blue especially after I experimented before yeah it's a younger age and what's the reaction been like then with with sort of family and and what what if they said about well my father I'm actually not in contact with any of my family right through other other reasons but friends well you see there's a couple of people that talk to and that and they've found it quite bizarre but a few that I've spoken to kind of understand but kind of not it's very hard yeah they also know like when I post it on Facebook about a week and a half ago two weeks opposed to saying I'm gay and I'm very happy but I didn't say the reason why and everyone was commenting on my status saying why we didn't see that Quinn that's a great shot because it's so out of character for me yeah okay ranch a very direct question can a pain killer turn you gay in very simple terms I'm going to say no but I know I'm gonna be as pragmatic about this as I can be first and foremost I think it's great that you're happy yeah I think that's the most important thing here and not whatever it takes for you to be happy is good for you so um professionally speaking pro gambling is a medication that calms the activity of nerves down which is why it's used in conditions like epilepsy nerve pain disorders which is what probably works is for you yeah and also anxiety and there are a range of side effects that are associated with it and for a small proportion of people you can get alteration in your sexual function and that could be your desire or your ability to for example achieve an erection or have an orgasm most people that are affected tend to get a loss of libido but some people can get the opposite where they have a heightened sexual desire either way what it probably does is allow you to be able to express what was already there I think that's my professional opinion I know I haven't lived your experience yeah but my professional opinion would be that all it has done is allow you to be your true self which is okay because these videos would probably always there and sexuality is complex it's not black and white and different people experience it differently and some people are fluid and you know you might be attracted to a woman at one stage in your life you might be attracted to somebody else in another stage but this has allowed you I think or giving you permission to be who you are which is if you're happy that's a good thing you

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Length: 6min 26sec (386 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 18 2018