article on withdrawing from dopamine agonists

doety · Post by **doety** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:25 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/healt ... updateema3

This is the link to a story in the New York Times today -- aimed at Parkinson's patients, but certainly applicable to us. It's about withdrawing from dopamine agonists, like Mirapex and Requip.

Post by **Polar Bear** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:03 am

Thanks Doety

Post by **ViewsAskew** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:49 am

I wonder how much of that is withdrawing from a much higher dose than we use. I haven't heard many of us complain of any of that (thankfully!). I think they use many times more of it for PD than we use.

Sleuth · Post by **Sleuth** » Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:15 pm

Last week I saw one of the doctors who wrote that. She thinks that Requip and Mirapex are "dangerous" drugs.

Dale