diff --git a/solvers/gurobi/gurobibackend.cc b/solvers/gurobi/gurobibackend.cc
index f7048ddc9..31f7f2f80 100644
--- a/solvers/gurobi/gurobibackend.cc
+++ b/solvers/gurobi/gurobibackend.cc
@@ -2102,8 +2102,11 @@ void GurobiBackend::InitCustomOptions() {
   /// std feature MULTIOBJ is set.
   /// Change the help text
   AddToOptionDescription("obj:multi",
-                           "The objectives must all be linear.  Objective-specific "
-                           "convergence tolerances and method values may be assigned via "
+                           "Degradation suffixes .objabstol, .objreltol are handled "
+                           "differently for LP, see Gurobi documentation.\n\n"
+                           "The objectives must all be linear.\n\n"
+                           "Objective-specific "
+                           "tolerances and method values may be assigned via "
                            "keywords of the form obj_n_<name>, such as obj_1_method for the "
                            "first objective.");