Mirapex Approval Pending

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Mirapex has completed its studies and has filed in Europe and the US for approval of Mirapex to treat RLS. The European equivalent of the FDA gave their thumbs up to it this week.

http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/no ... 0224100615

To me, the most interesting part of this article is the AMOUNT of drug that they are recommending. Up until now, doctors have been on their own to figure this out. Some people have been on very high doses. But this article says, "Pramipexole is highly efficacious at the starting dose of 0.125mg single dose per day and up to 0.75mg single dose per day[2] and is well tolerated. . ."

This is really small compared to what many of us have been told to take.

The other most interesting part of the article was this quote, "As also described in the literature for antiparkinsonian dopamine replacement therapy, cases of behavioural changes have been reported."

Is this related to the gambling???? Or to the other changes that some of us noted in mood? Not sure, but I don't recall it being there 4 years ago when I started the drug. It probably was, but I don't recall it.

Ann