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- Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:51 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Neupro and the insomnia side effect
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1037
Re: Neupro and the insomnia side effect
ViewsAskew and Rustsmith, thank you both for your speedy and helpful answers. I had no idea that alpha delta ligands (whatever they are!) might help. I don't think I've ever taken one. ViewsAskew, you're right, I augmented on Mirapex -- how'd you remember, with all the people who post here?! -- but ...
- Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:29 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Neupro and the insomnia side effect
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1037
Neupro and the insomnia side effect
Hi folks -- I was very much helped by this forum a few months ago when I was coming off Mirapex. Now I'm back with a question about Neupro. After the Mirapex and a short time on oxycodone, I got pretty well grooved into methadone. I've been taking it for I guess two months now at least. But it was c...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:55 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Well, THAT was interesting!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2107
Re: Well, THAT was interesting!
THANK YOU, QyX! It's so helpful to know someone else has had the same experience. Symptoms 24/7… hard to imagine. You have my sympathies. I hope you've found a med that's reliable for you.
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 11:40 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Well, THAT was interesting!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2107
Re: Well, THAT was interesting!
4:15 a.m. -- Alas, I have not had another symptomless night, and once again I'm getting the distinct impression that the oxy is mimicking the Mirapex, in that sx start *after* I take the oxy. It feels as though the Mirapex is out of my system now -- I started feeling fully human again a couple of da...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:42 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Well, THAT was interesting!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2107
Well, THAT was interesting!
So I've been getting off Mirapex because of augmentation after a very good run of 10 years. My doc recently switched me to oxycodone. (The full story is in Just Joined? under the header Another New One.) It hasn't been a great 2.5 weeks, although not a screaming nightmare either. One odd thing I not...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:22 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Another new one
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1959
Re: Another new one
Thanks, ViewsAskew. I had an interesting night last night. I'm going to post in the Prescription Medications section rather than continuing in Just Joining.
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:00 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Another new one
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1959
Re: Another new one
SO helpful to have this forum available!! ViewsAskew, I'm not ready to fly to California yet, but it is very good to know there's that option. I am fortunate in that I could afford to do it if necessary. Having read quite a bit now, and seen that some people have had success combining Mirapex with o...
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 3:01 am
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Another new one
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1959
Re: Another new one
Thanks so much for your response, ViewsAskew. Dr. Buchfuhrer sounds like a living saint -- I'll write him for sure. Although maybe I should wait and see if my symptoms subside once I've been off the DA another couple of weeks. You give me hope that that may happen. Just a couple of questions: You sa...
- Sun Jun 08, 2014 8:51 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Another new one
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1959
Re: Another new one
A few more bits of information: As I've been reading the forum and seeing that 0.25 is the standard Mirapex dose, I'm remembering that even before the recent changes, my dosage had been creeping up over the past few years. A doc had told me the higher doses wouldn't be a problem, and really, they we...
- Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:37 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Another new one
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1959
Another new one
Hi, everybody, and thanks so much for being here in cyberspace with me. I'm 70 and have had RLS a long time. Started needing meds for it in something like the late '90s. Took sinemet, augmented horribly; added oxycodone, problem solved. Switched to Mirapex when it was new and getting good press. Wor...