Reviews for MIRAPEX279 ratings: (taken because of restless rls)Edit Filter | Clear FilterCompare MIRAPEX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MIRAPEX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Restless legs, anhedonia, focus issues | Constantly felt sick, weak, and even more fatigued due to my quality of sleep decreasing while on it. Although I could get to sleep, my sleep quality was a 0 out of 10. Always ended up waking up early and couldn't get back to sleep even though I was still very tired. For men specifically: I did end up having erections again after having trouble with them, so take that as you will. | I stopped taking mirapex and found that Kratom entirely resolved my restless legs, but it has a profound withdrawal component after using it for a while for some people, so be very careful if you seek to use it for restless legs. | M | 26 | 5 days 0.125 mg 1X day | 1/20/2023 | 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 | 5 | Restless legs and muscle spasm | Slight nausea for 1st few weeks | This has made a huge difference too my quality of life. Night time restlessness and jerking spasms of arms legs and sometime whole body sometimes quite violent . Within a day of starting these decreased and after gradually increasing dose are Gone completely. | M | 72 | 2 days 0.75mg 1X day | 7/16/2022 | 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 | 5 | Rls | Sudden onset of extreme drowsiness. I have fallen asleep in mid -sentence. Obsession with sex. Issues with erectile dysfunction. | 67 | 2 years 2 50mg per 2X day | 6/28/2021 | 4 | RLS | Worked great for RLS but it started making me feel extremely nauseous after month 1. I didn't realize it was the medicine bc it never made me sick before. I was getting sick through the night and then sick all day the next day. I went to the doctor thinking I had major GI issues. They told me stop the mirapex for the night to see what would happen ... tadah .... it was gone ... nausea and vomiting gone. I have had to take it a few times since then when my RLS is super bad but I take a zofran with it and it works beautifully. I took it not long sho without the zofran bc I didn't have any and bam... puked all night and felt sick the entire next day. | Take a zofran with this is it makes you nauseous. | 45 | 2 months | 6/24/2020 | 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 | 3 | RLS | I took it for 2 years without a problem until recently it started causing extreme itching every time I took it. | F | 42 | 2 years 0.5 | 12/28/2017 | 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 | 5 | RLS | Low bp 90/60 and high heart rate of 120.can not say if these side effects are due to mirapex. Since last 5 days when i started taking mirapex i feel i got anew lease of life. My life had become miserable. I was in constant pain and sleepless since last 4 years. The medication that doctors tried on me during last 4years were 1. amitriptyline 0. 5mg 2. chlordiazepoxide 0.5mg 3. gabapentin 625mg 4. pramipexole 1mg | I found mirapex as a wonder drug. Can not say if the low bp and high heart rate is due to mirapex or these are the withdrawal symptoms of the drugs that i have taking all these years. Presently i fell as if i never had rls. Mirapex has helped me to that extent. How long it will work only god can tell. | M | 68 | 5 days 0. 25 mg | 8/21/2016 | 3 | Rls | Somewhat worked for rls but caused diarrhea | F | 44 | 1 weeks .125 | 8/19/2016 | 4 | RLS | Weight gain, no sleep | I could NOT survive without it!! | F | 58 | 8 years .25 | 5/25/2016 | 5 | Restless leg syndrome. | Headaches sometimes. | I am so greatful for Mirapex! It has made such a difference in my life. | F | 57 | 3 years .25 mg | 3/20/2016 | 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 | 2 | RLS and fibromyalgia | Constant eye twitching, locked jaw, sore joints, binge eating, chain smoking, excessive spending | It did help my RLS a bit. I had no nausea etc. Biggest help was change of diet and homeopathic remedies. Totally changed my life. I had systemic candiasis which is now gone and so are my RLS and fibromyalgia | F | 36 | 3 months | 2/24/2016 | 5 | rls | I have been taking this drug for many years and it has saved my life my legs are so bad I go crazy but with this drug I am hole sorry for the haters I have no side affects | M | 55 | 10 years 3mg | 2/20/2016 | 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 | 4 | Head injury that gave me rls | I stopped mirapex for requip but had bad withdraws from mirapex body locking up like my jaw and every joint on my body hurt | I have now returned to taking mirapex | M | 55 | 10 years 3 mg | 10/9/2015 |
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)