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 | Worked immediately,improved my mood | F | 40 | 1 days 50mg | 4/17/2015 | 4 | RLS | Heartburn | F | 73 | 3 years 10mg | 11/29/2014 | 3 | RLS | i have taken this drug for several years - successfully to treat rls symptoms, primarily at night. however, in 3 recent incedents, this drug has caused SERIOUS blood pressure drop during air travel. at first i thought it was diet related/drug usage (rls). but, with further investigation, i have proven to myself that it in fact is a reaction to the drug itself. blood pressure bottomed out at 60/40 during flight. BE VERY CAREFUL when taking this, if you are going to be traveling by airplane. | excellent treatment - at home - for rls. but DANGEROUS for air travel to minimize rls during flight. 60/40 bp is near-dead. scared me. i highly recommend this for at-home use, but will not use it again during travel. | M | 58 | 10 years 1X AN | 11/17/2014 | 2 | RLS | Was taking 1mg. Worked good for a month. Dr put me on 2 mg. now I'm throwing up every night | F | 57 | 1 months 2mg | 11/1/2014 | 1 | RLS | I have been on this for 14 years and have been augmenting for the last 2 years and did not know until I found a great support group on Facebook. This drug has almost ruined my life and my marriage from OCD to weight gain to chronic pain. I am detoxing as I write this on day 5. The first 3 days were hell but getting better. | GET OFF OF THIS...IT WILL MAKE SYMPTOMS WORSE AND WORSE. I KNOW YOU THINK YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT, I DID FOR THE LAST 14 YEARS ...I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN. | F | 45 | 14 years 1 mg 2X day | 8/7/2014 | 1 | RLS | I watched my mother experience fatigue, tiredness, confusion and general dementia like symptoms. | Get OFF this medicine. Please. It works at first and bites like a snake later on. My mom was experiencing all sorts of dementia like symptoms and was looking like a zombie. She was going downhill rapidly. Called a friend to talk and she told me her mom had the same thing and this med was a contributing factor among other things that led to her death. When I heard this my mom was off the medicine that night. In one day her mind started clearing. The fog was lifting and mental clarity was returning (though not completely). It was like I had my mother back. The downhill slide has slowed. To deal with her RLS we have used every single homeopathic remedy every day. Not sure what is working but something is doing the trick. It hasn't gone away but is greatly reduced. Now we're trying to figure out her sleep. She was on Ambian and that was the miracle drug until it too turned bad. FDA is now calling for different guidelines as it has been a problem. So for what it is worth, here are the alternative things we are using for mom's RLS that are working. And yes, we are using all of them at the present time. Once we figure out her sleep (years of insomnia) then we can maybe start removing these to find which one has been the remedy that is doing the trick. But thank God someone warned us about this drug. It's demonic. So here's what's working: Vitamin B12 (with methylfolate since our blood work showed inability to metabolize). Vitamin E Omega 3's | F | 67 | 150 days .50 1X day | 5/9/2014 | 1 | RLS | I am not a fan on this drug. I'm sad to report that I've just been through an awful ordeal with my mother because of this, which I didn't believe until I researched this drug. She developed seriously uncharacteristic behavior where she was engaging in risky sexual behavior with men she didn't know. She got caught up in an internet romance scam. I've hardly recognized her lately. This was a professional, honest, and great person who has just crumbled. We are getting her help but the behavior perfectly aligns with her taking this medication. I believe the side effects are rare but they are certainly scary as hell. I hope others will be quite vigilant about the risks and mitigate more quickly than I did. | F | 65 | 9 months -- | 4/23/2014 | 3 | rls | I really haven't had any side effects yet. A little groggy in the morning but so far so good. Does anyone know if requip works for them right away or must build up in your system? ? | F | 54 | 1 weeks 1mg | 4/16/2014 | 2 | RLS | I had extreme nausea all night the first time I took this medicine. Perhaps 2mg was too much to start with. I am thinking my doctor should have started me off with .25 MG. | F | 46 | 1 days 2mg | 4/10/2014 | 4 | RLS | I'm having severe sweating which is annoying. I used the Neupro patch for the last year which was great, but I don't have insurance right now and Neupro would be $300 a month while Ropinorole is $10. It's working if I remember to take it early enough and I've lost 7lbs. this month. Appetite has decreased, but I also switched my anti depressant at the same time, so that could be the lack of appetite. | F | 56 | 1 months 1 mg 1X day | 7/15/2013 | 5 | restless leg | F | 63 | 45 days 30mg 1X day | 7/4/2013 Patient History | 1 | Rls | AUGMENTATION. Too many holes in th | M | 59 | 5 years 4-5mg/day | 4/10/2013 | 2 | severe PLMD | More exhausted than before taking requip.Couldn't get out of bed, hard to stay awake even w/ 60mg adderall, cldn't function doing daily activities & extreme SWEATING!! | F | 35 | 7 months .75 | 3/23/2013 | 3 | RLS | headaches, neck pain, joint pain, weight gain, feel hung over next day | Since I have gained 10 lbs in 2 months while maintaining the same lifestyle and am also experiencing other side effects, I am decreasing my dosage and plan on discontinuing requip. The only good thing I can say is that it does work for restless legs. Since I am planning on discontinuing this drug I have been researching other possible causes and solutions. What I have found is that RLS may be caused by magnesium. B1 and/or folic acid deficiency. I have not started taking any supplements but before starting requip, I would occasionally take vitamin E as my mother in law said it worked for her. The last couple of nights I have taken vitamin e when my legs have started becoming restless while sitting on the couch and the RLS subsided. I'm not recommending anything but suggest you check around on the net to find this information as well. My symptoms do seem to match up with magnesium deficiency and am interested to see if I notice improvement when I start taking it. My Dr. said there was no known cause for RLS but decided to do my own research. Also the supplements are inexpensive and are likely to have fewer side effects. Also makes more sense to solve the problem than treat the symptoms. Just reading all your comments makes me think there's got to be a better way and if by some chance this information helps anyone, I thought it worth passing along. LIke I said, I haven't started on supplements yet and so can't say that it will help and suggested you do your own rese | F | 55 | 2 months .50 mg 1X day | 3/8/2013 | 5 | Restless legs | Works perfectly from the first night. Legs calm. I slept. HOWEVER, the nights I take Requip, I often awake with a headache. Usually mild, but occasionally I will wake at 4am feeling like my brain and face are so swollen inside that its bursting inside my skull. It's incredibly painful and I've taken 2 Advil, 2 Excedrin migraine, and topped it with 2 Vicodin, with no relief. Not sure which is worse: Restless legs every night, or occasional excruciating headaches. I need to contact my Dr about trying something else. | F | 44 | 3 months .50 mg 1X day | 3/7/2013 | 2 | Parkinsons | I became a complete sexual pervert and spent over £300,000 on pointless things and pipe dreams whores and holidays I am now broke I gave a series of Internet whores £35.000 per year for three years And gambled and lost £40,000 on the stockmarket. I became obsessed with two main websites talk sugar and nite flirt | M | 54 | 4 years 18mg | 2/24/2013 | 3 | Parkinsons Disease | I was diagnosed with parkinsons disease 5 years ago ,I was put on ropineole (requip) about that time. I now take 8mg a day . I have gained about 25lbs and I have vivid dreams, I also have increased sexual desire and a complusion at times to go out and get very drunk which is strange because I don't drink. I also take levocarb ,azilect .and i have a DBS implant . The medication seems to work but I'm unsure if it is worth the side effects ... | My advice is if you are an impulsive individual I would avoid requip!! the side effects could cause you trouble. I also get extremely sleepy in the late morning and I have to lay down for w while or I can't function. When I see my doctor next I may discuss getting off the drug … | M | 60 | 5 years 8mg 4X day | 11/7/2012 | 3 | RLS | Nausea, headaches with a glass of wine, drowsiness, wake up in the middle of the night. It did manage my RLS however which is a real benefit. | Requip works for me but the side effects really affected my quality of life but still better than suffering through miserable sleepless nights without it. I recently found a new treatment called Dronabinol which I have been taking for about 90 days. It has no side effects for me and works well. I take 2.5 mg 1x a day. | M | 61 | 2 years 3mg 1X day | 9/7/2012 | 1 | RLS | Hip and knee arthritis | Do not take it, the arthritis is diagnosed and permanent | F | 60 | 2 years 1X day | 9/1/2012 | 1 | RLS aka Willis Ekbom Disease | Augmentation of this drug is really scary, blood pressure dropped so low I could barely find pulse, grayed out, sweating, wife thought I was dying and called paramedics. I thought I was going to die. | Started taking this drug for RLS. Worked fine with mild side effects (nausea/fatigue), Slowly had to increase dose due to symptom bleed-through over time. Augmentation not fun. Quit cold turkey (also not fun) to try various naturopathic therapies. Went on Mirapex after six months of being a zombie from no sleep. Experiencing same (without augmentation) on Mirapex. See my post, same header, under Mirapex. Go to bb.rls.org for help with RLS/WED... | M | 44 | 3 years 1.5 1X day | 7/30/2012 |