MIRAPEX Reviews (PRAMIPEXOLE DIHYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.8 (431 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MIRAPEX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MIRAPEX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | RLS | Extreme bouts if depression and crying. Constant worry of death, Tremors, and sharp needle like pains in toes. Dropped 16.5 lbs during the usage of this medication which was less than 5 weeks! | I used Klonopin successfully for 12 years prior when they stopped the medication to give me this. I've had to stop use of this medication. | F | 50 | 30 days .125 MG 1X day | 1/8/2023 | 1 | RLS | I started taking Mirapex 2012. It worked great for my RLS. 2019 I started getting very nauseous to the point where I couldn't get out of bed. I stopped taking it until a couple days ago. I talked to my doctor about how it made me very nauseous in the past and she said to take a half a pill. So I did. I woke up around 3 o'clock in the morning because my RLS was very severe. I took a half a pill. I woke up at 7 o'clock in morning and I was vomiting until 3 o'clock the next morning. Terrible. | F | 52 | 1 days 1MG 1X day | 5/9/2022 | 1 | Depression | This drug almost killed me. Stripped me of my dignity and my humanity. I was not warned of these side effects. I developed impulse control disorders, compulsive shopping and painting, cross dressing and acute suicidal ideation. | F | 40 | 2 years | 1/13/2020 | 1 | Restless Legs | Compulsive-Impulsive spending; Hyper-sexuality; gambling; theft; reckless driving; binge drinking/drug use; legal trouble | The drug is a "MIRAcle" for the condition itself, but not worth the hell you go through personally or put others through with the crazy side effects. Try Neupro the patch for RLS. | F | 42 | 10 years 1MG 2X day | 4/16/2018 | 1 | Rls | Compulsive gambling, spending, hypersexuality | F | 56 | 5 years 1.5mg | 4/7/2018 | 1 | RLS, very severe. | Horrifying. Hallucinating. Confusion. Loss of space and time. Cold like stuffiness. Couldn't remember what day it was. I've lost my job because I couldn't think straight. This is after just four days. A killer drug. Shouldn't be on market. | Stop the nonsense drugs. This was just as bad as Ambien. There ARE drugs that work, like Ropinerol, without causing a person to go insane. I cannot say ANYTHING good about this drug at ALL. | F | 4 days .125 | 9/23/2017 | 1 | RLS | Chest pain, headache, numb and cold hands and feet, major muscle spasms, sleeplessness, restless, body pain....it was way worse than the flu!!! I thought I was having a heart attack! | I wasn't taking a high dose....with all my symptoms, I have no clue if it helped RLS. I'd rather live with RLS than these meds! | F | 33 | 2 days 0.25 | 6/30/2017 | 1 | R L S | Coughing all day every day ,throwing up white foam.But has no taste. | My life has been horrible for the last year while taking Mirapex.I cough until I throw up.I stay sick at my stomach. Really doesn't help my R L S. | F | 50 | 1 years 0.5mg | 3/6/2017 | 1 | restless legs | Severe pain thought my entire body, every bone in my body hurts, stomach pain, hart palpitation, difficulty in walking, back pain, can't work or sit for any length of time. The restless legs symptoms are gone but the side affects are terrible. | F | 67 | 2 months o.125 1X day | 3/17/2016 | 1 | Mirapex made me extremely nauseous. Took it before bed and woke up power-puking, and was sick to my stomach all day - could barely get out of bed. This was not a 24-hr. flu. I did not feel at all sick. It was from the medicine. | F | 54 | 1X day | 2/21/2016 | 1 | RLS | Compulsion, heightened sexuality, affected normal judgment. | I have been away from Mirapex now for 5 years and want to offer perspectives from a distance. As you can read from the many comments below, this drug affects people very differently. It was very bad medication for me, even at low dose. It didn't perceptively help my restless legs. What I didn't like is that the drug taker doesn't realize the side effects. For me the side effects were impairment of judgment, non-gambling compulsiveness, and heightened sexuality. As to judgment, something about which I am normally praised, I describe the effect as juvenile - not caring about the results of actions. As to compulsiveness, my focus was a house remodel project, for which I was totally absorbed and spent way too much. As to sexuality, I just had a heightened sense of sex and got way too close to a fellow worker. That almost ruined my 35 year marriage, but my wife, a psychotherapist, knew something wasn't right and checked on Mirapex. It takes a long time to get Mirapex fully out of your body, for me at least 6 months. Mirapex could have been a disaster for me if I kept taking it and if I increased the dosage. My wife also found a potential connection between Mirapex and a family history of manic-depression, which my father had. My advice: if you take this medication, be very aware of your individual results and be very open with your caretaker about what is happening; the side effects can be very subtle. | M | 68 | 1.5 years .5 MG 1X day | 1/2/2016 | 1 | Rls | I took the pill few hours before bed time. I immediately started vomiting it continued all night until eleven the next morning. I had terrible headache for two days felt extremely weak still had nausea after two days. I also had flu like symptoms and felt drugged. I don't know if the dose was to strong but I will be looking for something else. Would not recommend the drug.. | F | 66 | 1 days 1 | 8/13/2015 | 1 | Fibromyalgia | Immediate massive headache, muscle twitches, inability to sleep, and didn't feel like myself. I knew immediately that this drug was messing with my head and would do the same damage to my life that Ambien did. | Not worth the side effects at all. | F | 46 | 1 days .5mg | 6/2/2015 | 1 | Restless Legs | compulsive gambling, feel asleep while driving, helped with RLS but ruined my life! | Mirapex caused me to become a compulsive gambler. It has put such a financial strain on my family. I also have become very depressed because of the person it turned me into. I've had a hard time forgiving myself for the things I have done and the pain I have caused my family. I had no idea Mirapex was the reason I had become this way. STAY AWAY!! | F | 39 | 1.5 years 1 1X day | 5/21/2015 | 1 | restless leg | Lost money, jobs,divorce, alcohol abuse,and spending sprees | F | 45 | 7 years 25 | 3/25/2015 | 1 | RLS | Horrible nausea, vomiting | M | 49 | 1 days .125 | 3/12/2015 | 1 | restless leg | My father committed suicide. | At the end of his very short letter he said "my mirapex has messed me up". | M | 64 | 1 days | 3/11/2015 | 1 | Restless leg syndrome | Severe gambling addiction and shopping addiction | I would not recommend this drug to anyone. It has ruined my life. I have lost everyone close to me. Since discontinuing this medication, I am no longer addicted to gambling I have suffered severely from taking this drug. Any comments from anybody else who also affected with an addiction from taking this drug or Its generic, Pramipexole, please don't hesitate to contact me. | F | 65 | 10 years 3 MG | 1/4/2015 | 1 | rls | after 1 month started getting rls10x worse..during the day...in other parts of my body...twitching in the face, legs all over horrible...tried to taper off and had terrible withdrawal spent all night pacing for 3 days before giving up.. | F | 60 | 4 months .125 | 7/24/2014 | 1 | RLS | Addiction to gay porn, spent all day sleeping as dreams were so much better than my real life, started smoking, scratch cards, short term memory problems, lying, erectile dysfunction, compulsions, two pulmonary embolisms pretty much screwed up my entire life. Still get no enjoyment from anything just waiting to die. Still erectile dysfunction although addictions have gone but short term memory rubbish. Wish I had never seen the news article and asked my doctor for it. | Cured my RLS on day one with half dose, but side effects, and on-going side effects are life changing. Probably worth it for Parkinson's patient as they are going to die anyway. Cured RLS by taking 30mg Codine Phosphate Hemilhydrate/ Paracetamol 500mg (called solpadol) before bed, no side effects as yet. | M | 40 | 2 years .5mg 1X day | 1/13/2014 |
MIRAPEX (PRAMIPEXOLE DIHYDROCHLORIDE): Pramipexole is used alone or with other medications to treat Parkinson's disease. It can improve your ability to move and decrease shakiness (tremor), stiffness, slowed movement, and unsteadiness. It may also decrease the number of episodes of not being able to move ("on-off syndrome"). This medication is also used to treat a certain medical condition (restless legs syndrome - RLS) that causes an unusual urge to move the legs. Symptoms usually occur at night along with uncomfortable/unpleasant feelings in the legs. This medication can decrease these symptoms and thereby improve sleep. Pramipexole is a dopamine agonist that works by helping to restore the balance of a certain natural substance (dopamine) in the brain. FDA Approval Date: 1997-07-01 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)