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- Sun May 27, 2018 3:53 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Is your DA causing augmentation?
- Replies: 158
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Re: Is your DA causing augmentation?
Gosh! Thank you for that information. Indeed, my insomnia is not much assisted by benzodiazepines, if at all. I did not know there was an association. Sleep, for me, is totally hit-or-miss. I never know if I will get sufficient sleep, or not. It does make life very difficult when you're cannoning of...
- Sun May 27, 2018 9:46 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Is your DA causing augmentation?
- Replies: 158
- Views: 152398
Re: Is your DA causing augmentation?
Indeed Legsbestill, I hope I am one of those whose symptoms resolve for a while. Then I can devote my time to learning to sleep again. Few people seem to mention insomnia as a primary side-effect of pramipexole, although it is mentioned over and over in the package insert. RLS Insomnia + DA Insomnia...
- Sun May 27, 2018 7:55 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Is your DA causing augmentation?
- Replies: 158
- Views: 152398
Re: Is your DA causing augmentation?
Thank you StJohn and Rustsmith, I am most grateful for your input. On Friday I took a file full of information from rls.org, PubMed and various other sites to my GP. He took one look at (very small) me and my (very fat) file and said - 'Here comes trouble!' I said - 'You have no idea Doc'. Last mont...
- Sat May 26, 2018 4:47 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Discussion of Adenosine paper
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4417
Re: Discussion of Adenosine paper
Oops, I meant hyper-insomnia.
But if anyone has any hypersomnia to spare, I would like to have it now and then.
But if anyone has any hypersomnia to spare, I would like to have it now and then.
- Sat May 26, 2018 4:45 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Discussion of Adenosine paper
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4417
Re: Discussion of Adenosine paper
Clearly, I must study the adenosine paper, and the glutamate/GABA/adenosine issues. I have suffered from insomnia for many years, but only recently have used small doses of methadone when DAs were insufficient. I am on a low dose of DAs, and will under no circumstances increase the dose. I cannot re...
- Sat May 26, 2018 4:20 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Is your DA causing augmentation?
- Replies: 158
- Views: 152398
Re: Is your DA causing augmentation?
Indeed yes. I have had WED all my long 73 tears, slowly becoming worse over time. No-one had a name when I was young, or help. (Except quinine, and we all know about that). I did not even speak of it until many decades later. So you had it as early as you can remember, it's just there, part of your ...
- Fri May 18, 2018 4:40 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: tapering off ropinirole
- Replies: 67
- Views: 20962
Re: tapering off ropinirole
I tried to come off pramipexole by 25%, complete disaster, suicide territory. I now have a methadone scrip, and will try to reduce the DA by no more than 10% per month, with methadone as needed. I have read enough about DAWS to be truly afraid. Apparently, as many as 19% of sufferers will get DAWS, ...
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 10:40 am
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: Extreme compression DIY
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5965
Extreme compression DIY
Hello People When things get really bad, I find that the following posture gives a lot of relief - First, to prepare, give your calf muscles a good stretch. The best way, I find, is to stand backwards on a step and drop the heels over the edge, This creates the best stretch because almost all of you...
- Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:11 am
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Hello, I'm Bronwen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2312
Re: Hello, I'm Bronwen
Thank you for your prompt and inclusive advice Steve. My dose of pramipexole at present is 0.25, but I have been up to 0.375. My body is starting to scream for more, and in view of my side-effects I simply cannot go there. Quite why I was able reduce the dose, at least for a while, is something I fa...
- Thu Oct 05, 2017 5:46 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Hello, I'm Bronwen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2312
Hello, I'm Bronwen
Hello Dear People, I am Bronwen. There is no-one on the site at the moment, so I hope you are all sleeping peacefully. I am in Africa, and it is not quite bed-time. When it is bedtime, I will have taken my second dose of pramipexole and half a benzo, and I will hope that I do not wake and have to ta...