REQUIP Reviews (ROPINIROLE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.8 (379 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare REQUIP with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR REQUIP | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | RLS | Over the past two years I've run the gamut of side-effects. I take 1mg at night and half of that (.5mg) at noon for rebound. Sometimes I can see the capillaries in my eyes but they are black. Like black lightning. Also, I get the strobe light effect in my left eye, usually in the evenings while watching TV. I had my eyes checked when I started getting the strobe light effect and the doctor said my retina is fine. I had leg cramps for a while but found that Co-Enzyme Q10 120 mg daily would take care of that. Have occasional itching of my feet but hydrocortisone cream seems to work fine. Also, I have increased libido which, at my age, is fine with me!! My doctor thinks the increased libido is because I am getting enough sleep now, but I think it's due to the Requip directly. When I first started Requip I had blunted orgasms which,after a few months, were replaced by prolonged,enhanced orgasms | I'm willing to jump through a lot of hoops to stay on the Requip.I've had RLS for over 30 years. I still find it hard to believe that now I'm getting a whole nights sleep, every night without having to get up and exercise my legs. I sleep like a baby now. I'm a retired nurse and looked high and low over the years for relief. I tried benzodiazpines which seemed to work for a short while. Beta blockers also seemed to work for a while. Any time I had to use a narcotic, like Tylenol #3 , that would work for a few days. Nothing worked for very long tho. I tried the home remedies like Vitamin E, Folic Acid, Calcium/Mag. Zinc, etc etc. I tried eating more sugar and then tried no sugar at all. I was grasping at straws... Requip is a God-send!!! | M | 66 | 800 days | 12/14/2007 | 1 | Have had RLS since I was a kid and starting taking Requip approx. 2 years ago w/.5 mg. BID, got relief however only temporary, had to gradually increase dose to 1 mg. BID with only temp. relief again. Augmentation symptoms are HUGE!! Definitely has made the twitching worse, not even able to ride in the car for 45 mins. Made the connection between my horrible irritability, 20 lbs. weight gain and cravings an hour after taking it. Will gradually decrease dose and eventually will stop taking it. Not much relief with it might as well live without the side effects. | Please research this medication before you start taking this!!! If I had known this I would have never started it. | F | 43 | 2 years | 12/4/2007 | 4 | RLS | Headache upon waking (starting about 5am). Possibly related: migrate-like headache behind one eye (usually left eye). Vision problems -- headaches after reading or working at computer. I have a lazy eye -- seems to be exacerbated. | Worked great for RLS, even at lowest dosage. Had to reduce dosage due to headaches, and vision problems. | M | 53 | 2 months | 11/24/2007 | 3 | RLS | Have had RLS for about 20 years. Uncontrollable urge to move legs at night - aches. Am currently taking 1 mg in the evening. Have had weight gain - about 20 lbs. But at least I can sleep! After taking for 6 mths - have started having severe legs cramps. | I logged in here to find out if the Requip might be associated with my leg cramps, as blood work does not show vitamin defiency. Now I suspect it is the culprit. I did not realize the weight gain might be due to Requip until logging on here. But this has been the only change in the last several mths so I suspect it is responsible for that as well. I'm not sure if I can handle the cramps - but all in all it's been wonderful to sleep for the first time in years! I'll look for an alternate source of relief for legs cramps before discontinuing this med. | F | 51 | 6 months | 11/16/2007 | 2 | RLS | NIght sweats, nightime reflux with gagging, sinusitis, significant joint pain between the time I take it and the time I fall asleep, increased leg motion during daytime, weight gain, and--the symptom that finally has made me quit--extreme drowsiness and fatigue which appeared over a year after I began taking the drug. This delayed effect would normally make me doubt a connection with requip except that when I discontinued it the fatigue lifted in a matter of days. | Requip does alleviate nightime rls but for me the side effects were equal to or worse than rls untreated. RLS leaves me tired the next day, but so does requip and RLS untreated doesn't entail all the other negative side effects. | M | 48 | 2 years | 11/13/2007 | 1 | RLS | Always sleepy, forgetful, haluccinations | The requip never worked very well but every time we talked to the doctor, he upped the dose. I was up to 6 mg. Finally after talking to another doctor I tried Klonopin. It's worked very well. I'm still very forgetful although it seems a little better. | M | 45 | 18 months | 11/2/2007 | 2 | RLS | Nausea, Weakness, Body felt "poisoned", joint pain, headaches | I switched from 1 mg Mirapex (which worked perfectly for my RLS, but left me in a gambling death-grip) to 1 mg of Requip one year ago. I got some relief, but not nearly as effective or last as long as Mirpapex. I had to increase to 2 mg, and then my bad side effects really kicked in. 15 minutes after dosage, I have 1-2 hours of bad nausea. I feel weak and tired, with dull headaches. My whole body feels wrong, like it's poisoned. Requip also takes about 2 hours before it helps the RLS. The help is 50-75%, and does not last thru the night. After a few weeks on 2 mg, I started noticing joiint pain all over my body. I grudgingly went off Requip (no RLS Meds) for 2 weeks and all of the symptoms disappeared including the joint pain. When I resumed Requip, ALL side effects returned. Thur experimentation, I now take 1/3 - 1/2 dosage 2 hours before bed time and the remainder about 1 hour before bedtime. The nausea and feeling of "poisoning" is still there but reduced somew | M | 56 | 1 years | 10/29/2007 | 5 | RLS | I am in the prime of my life and just found out the requip is enhancing my sex life a million fold. I am THRILLED. It makes me feel sexy and confident for the first time in 20 yrs. Oh and it helps my legs too. I sleep better with it but not fantastially well. All in all I love this stuff! Only problem is If I don't take it before symptoms begin then my stomach hurts and I get a weird creepy feeling all over. Ijust have to remember to take it before that happens. | F | 42 | 1.5 years | 10/26/2007 | 2 | RLS | Severely burning skin, anxiety and feeling of absolute doom. explosive diarrhea Nausea and restlessness. | On two occasions I had severe side effects. To be fair...other times I took it and it did relax my RLS and my legs felt warm and heavy by morning...but for some reason on two occasions...I went through hell with it. I had to wake up my husband because I became so fearful ...as if someone was going to or did die. I was nauseaus, pale, anxious, having explosive diarrhea as if my stomach was heaving backwards. I also noticed a residual effect of a ridiculous volatile temper which lingered for 24 hours or so. | F | 35 | 30 days | 10/25/2007 | 2 | RLS | Nasea, pvc (heart having extra bottom beat),Some weird strobe light effect in eyes when i woke up in the middle of the night. | Started off on 1mg dose of requip which seemed to wear off after a few months went to 2mg and started rebounding, after a couple months of that is when the pvcs' started! Thought i was having a heart attack. I no longer take it! | F | 39 | 1 years | 10/25/2007 | 1 | rls | moody, spacey, lethargic, diapharetic, nervous, sometimes disoriented, upset stomach, abnormal appetite | been taking requip about 4 months now. started out on .5 mg. the first few weeks were great. no rls and great sleep. all of the sudden the .5 mg were not enough actually symtoms continually got worse. began taking 1 mg. there again great for about 3 weeks. then again not enough. i began taking two of the 1 mg pills nightly. wow, the rls went away, but so did my short term memory, energy to do anything, happiness became moody and very short tempered. i would rather deal with the rls than go through this crap. would not recommend this drug to anyone...if anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with the symtoms minus the use of this drug please email the information. i would greatly appreciate it. | M | 32 | 4 months | 10/18/2007 | 1 | RLS | Felt like I was dying, on the floor in a pool of sweat, couldn't stand, throwing up, extreme dizziness. Had an EKG, Echo and still have a monitor for a month. | Requip can make your blood pressure dangerously low. You need to have a really good feel for what your pressure is before starting this drug. A daily history, NOT just a reading in the doctors office when you are nervous and get a reading that is higher. | F | 49 | 15 days | 10/12/2007 | 1 | RLS ? | Mild Nausea but intense sweating episodes at random times day and night lasting 15 minutes or so. Had little or no noticable effect on the creepy lower leg sensation and lower arm sensation it was prescribed for. Did create disturbing dreams. | I don't think i have RLS but a sensation that comes and goes and feels like i am about to get terrible goosebumps, very uncomfortable. discovered that Vicodin is only thing that terats it so far, i am open to any ideas. | M | 51 | 30 days | 10/10/2007 | 1 | RLS | Fainting, and not just light-headed faiting. Fainting like crash, crack-head-on-floor-vomit-and/or-wet-yourself fainting. I was afraid to be left alone. Very nauseated all night long. At first I didn't know it was the Requip that was making me so sick. The doctor order a sonogram and a heart monitor. Turned out it was the Requip. Was great for RLS but I thought I was dying. | F | 60 | 40 days | 9/24/2007 | 5 | rls | Use to take Quinine for bad leg cramps during the night but can no longer obtain Quinine, so doctor gave me 1 mg Requip and it has worked from the beginning. I take it about 9 pm, sleep through the night most of the time (up one time to piddle) and wake up fine. Thought it was a great drug. Now I have taken it every night for 2 months, and now I have developed a terrible itch, all over my body, from feet to head and scratching it only subsides the itch for a short time. Nothing else has changed or be added to my diet or medicines. I normally do not suffer from any allergies so am wondering if it could be the Requip. The itch is terrible and can be embarrising at times, but the cramps distrub my sleep so I am of mixed feeling about stopping the Reuip. I will try to cut back or stop the Requip and see if that helps. No one else has mentioned an itch. I haven't had any other symptom such as those listed so don't know what to make of it. Has anyone else developed a terrible itch? D | F | 69 | 2 days | 9/23/2007 | 4 | RLS | Upset stomach if taken without food.After 6 mounths had to increase does to 2 mg.now at one year not working as well. Fall asleep while driving a real problem. | Works well at relieving RLS. I take 1mg 4hrs before bed then 1mg 2hrs before which work better on stomach upset. RLS is made worse by Salt, and food with MSG on it. | M | 57 | 1 years | 9/23/2007 | 3 | fibromyalgia | I am taking the starter pack and I did not have major problems until I got to the 1 mg. Now I have headaches, nausea, vomiting, I almost fall asleep in class, and I got disoriented and went into the wrong classroom today. | I am going to stop taking it and see if I can get back on Zanaflex. It did help me sleep better at 0.25 or 0.5 mg but now I am up all night with heartburn, nausa and vomiting. Sometimes I am sick all day. I could not go to class 2 days in a row because my stomach was so upset. | F | 22 | 10 days | 9/18/2007 | 3 | RLS | Worsening symptoms during the day, strange dreams-not remembering if it really happened or it was a dream, desire to consume more alcohol (?) Possible weight gain | If I don't take it, I am up and down all night and grumpy the next day from frustration and interrupted sleep. | F | 48 | 2 years | 9/14/2007 | 2 | RLS | No subsiding of the creepy feeling, 10lb weight gain even though my daily exercise and caloric intake was the same, fatigue, dreams, waking at various time during the night. | I will stop taking requip, the dreams keep me awake and I am very tired all day, weight gain is unacceptable. | F | 52 | 4 weeks | 9/14/2007 | 3 | Essential tremor/parkinsons maybe | Sore throat low in throat/ Bleeding gums( thought I had Gingervitis) | Did help smooth leg motion going down stairs | M | 70 | 15 months | 9/11/2007 |