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 |
| 1 | Restless legs syndrome | Intense night sweats, nausea, irritability, little relief from RLS | I thought I'd take a break from Mirapex. What a big mistake. I would not recommend this drug to the general population. I also found it annoying that my health care provider knew nothing of side effects are that the dosage had to be increased each week. | M | 55 | 2 months .5 to 2MG 1X day | 11/8/2017 | 5 | restless legs syndrome, SEVERE | nausea | With my RLS, only able to sleep 2 hours/day, for the past 18 months. The sleep deprivation was making me a vegetable. Worked up to 2 mg/night of ropinirole, and sleep soundly for 7-8 hours, without kicking. A miracle!! Just plain saved my life and sanity!!! | M | 80 | 90 days 2 mg 1X day | 8/20/2017 | 1 | RLS | OMG!!! Within 30 minutes of swallowing this AWFUL pill.... I was beyond SICK! First came SEVERE NAUSEA!!! 2nd.. The ABSOLUTE NEED TO PUKE 3rd .. Stomach Pain ......even tender to the touch 4th ....Chills!!!! AND these symptoms occurred very QUICKLY and close together. I had NO CHOICE but to go to bed....with the bathroom trash -can at my bedside. I have NEVER in my lifetime felt so badly...so quickly from anything. Due to the timing, there was NO DOUBT what the cause was. I will NEVER swallow another one of these pills! NEVER!!!! | Now.. having read some of these reviews prior to leaving one myself.... I see that I definitely am not the only one to experience this TORTURE! I also can see that my doctor NEVER should have prescribed me such a high dose from the get go. 3mg. And told me to take 3mg. twice daily..... BS!!!! That definitely did NOT happen. After round 1.... UGH! Dose 2 is NEVER gonna happen. Poke me with a fork...I'm done. Lucky for my doctor today is Friday and the office is closed. Because I have SOMETHING to say.... | F | 48 | 1 days 3mg | 8/11/2017 | 1 | For my legs and I got sick | Yes I feel sick to my stomach all day just don't feel good after I took it had chill's feel shake all day I will never take that again I don't like how I feel my chest been hurt a little bit | Don't like it made me sick | F | 40 | 0 days 25mg | 6/2/2017 | 1 | Restless legs | After taking Requip I was like a zombie,so drugged feeling. Go to sleep while talking, did not help my legs.I'd just have to go to bed,couldn't function. | F | 59 | 8 months 50mg | 2/3/2017 | 3 | RLS | I get stuffed up about 15 min after taking it. Then feel horrible and throw up badly about 30 min after. | M | 29 | 1 days 1mg | 1/16/2017 | 2 | RLS | Extreme nausea and hot flushes | This pill got rid of my RLS fullstop, however the sytems were just too much to bare. I have been off of requip for over a year now and my hot flushes have not gone away. I did not experience these beforehand, and now I have between 3-10 major hot flushes per day. The flushes also come with a bit of anger and frustration as I feel claustrophobic in my own body and cannot escape how hot I am. | F | 23 | 5 months 1X day | 12/21/2016 | 3 | RLS | I wake-up twisting and can't seem to get comfortable. I also have nausea and heartburn. My heart is racing and I am more anxious until the dosage wears off. | The Requip has completely dispelled the RLS which I have had for at least 15 years. For that I am greatful, but the side effects keep me awake just as much as the RLS would if I hadn't taken Requip. I am hoping the side effects go away. | F | 38 | 4 days 1X day | 6/29/2016 | 5 | RLS | Don't know of any, however I have begun to experience stomach problems and fatigue. Could be unrelated. | I cannot fall asleep at night due to RLS. My calves tighten terribly, especially at night, and requip combats that awful tension. I would get little sleep without it.. | F | 68 | 2 years 1mg | 6/22/2016 | 1 | RLS | Made my RLS worse, but also made my whole body/skin feel itchy or prickly and unbearably uncomfortable. I stopped taking it after a week as the side effects were so severe I couldn't sleep properly. | F | 38 | 1 days | 5/1/2016 | 1 | Restless Legs | Nausa with high dose, makes you very sick but lower dose fixes this problem. After starting this medication RLS is much worse if something happens you run out of your medication. I wish I had never started taking it and wouldn't recommend anyone does. | F | 57 | 5 years 2 mg 1X day | 4/18/2016 | 1 | restless leg syndrome | 15 min after I swallow one pill I am completely throwing up and chill I think I'm going to die like not just sick to my stomach threw up. Like The Exorcist throw up. It's really really bad I'm never taking it again | F | 45 | 1 days | 2/24/2016 | 2 | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction | Nausea and fogginess when taken in high doses (18 mg). | I was hoping it would raise my libido, alleviate the sexual anhedonia I have from Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction. But it didn't do anything, besides making me nauseous. | M | 22 | 1 weeks 2-18 mg 1X day | 2/9/2016 | 3 | rls | None | Leaves me groogy next day. Have been taking Equip for years. | F | 80 | 1 years 3mg | 1/28/2016 | 1 | Rls | Nausea, weight gain, insomnia, compulsive shopping | I am stopping this medication now and hope i can find something else for rls - side effects are worse! | F | 49 | 2 years 2.5 | 12/9/2015 | 1 | RLS | I experience more pain in my right leg to where I couldn't walk. It still didn't take care of my RLS either. | F | 55 | 10 years .25mg | 11/7/2015 | 2 | Sexual anhedonia | Sleepy. Brain fog. | Going to try a higher dose. Disappointed it hasn't worked for my condition. Nothing does | F | 43 | 1 weeks .5 mg | 9/27/2015 | 4 | RLS | The first year it worked like a charm then I noticed I had a chronic cough. We thought it was the asthma I was just diagnosed with ...3 years later and I have severe silent reflux. Been to 4 docs and all agree the reflux seems to be linked to Requip and also the asthma, coughing and insomnia all reflux. Trying to ween off requip...omg it is horrible. | F | 58 | 4 years .5mg 1X day | 6/14/2015 | 4 | Restless Leg Syndrome | None that I've noticed, but I don't dare miss a dose or I pay for it dearly. | 6 months ago I was taking almost 3x the dosage I am now until my mother convinced me to get rid of my microwave oven. Since then my symptoms at home have gotten less aggressive and I've been able to cut back. However if I go to someone else's home where they have a microwave I have to bring extra pills with me. My Neurologist laughed at me when I told him this but I swear it's the honest to God truth. | F | 41 | 4 years 2 mg 2X day | 6/1/2015 | 3 | Muscle Spasms-RLS or Fibro related | Extreme naseau (especially in 1st 2 weeks), weight gain, hand swelling, almost passed out in shower multiple times, effects multiplied if taken with Benadryl. | This medicine worked immediately the first night. It was amazing. I still had soreness in my calves but could sleep! However I was extremely out of it, hardly able to function the first few mornings. I finally figured out it was worse the more Benadryl I took (for allergies). After stopping the Benadryl the mornings were still foggy but manageable. However I still had occasional times showering where I almost passed out and felt weak for hours afterwards. Then at week 3 it started to not quite work as well and the weight gain started. I think I am up 10 lbs and this is with increasing my exercise significantly to try and offset the medicine. I also have had increased gas and stomach pain that lasts from about 4 PM to 11 AM. I do however have Crohn's Disease so I am not completely sure the Requip is causing this. Due to the increase in stomach pain and weight gain I am discontinuing this medicine. | F | 35 | 6 weeks 1 mg | 4/28/2015 |