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Posted 5/18/2011 4:16 PM (GMT 0)
I just got home from my first appointment with a Neurologist.  He has put me on Mirapex (pramipexole) for pain and RLS.  I'm sure some of you must be on this or have been on it in the past?  I'm just wondering if you could share your experience with this medication, good or bad.  Thank you!

Dawn

Posted 5/18/2011 6:10 PM (GMT 0)
never mind - just went to pick up the script and for 30 generic pills it would have been $267. Can't do that when you don't have health insurance!
Posted 5/18/2011 6:33 PM (GMT 0)
Well, now I don't feel so bad when I tell you my experiences on mirapex. I felt like I had bugs crawling all over me. I guess that some of the side effects are hallucinations. I guess they were right. I took them back to the pharmacy. Couldn't deal with that. When I use to get restless leg syndrome, I would get up and start walking. Or running so hard that I finally tired them out. I think it came from being in bed too much for me. I don't have it anymore, thank God. I couldn't handle it, but I couldn't handle the mirapex either.

I am sorry that you can't get it. If you are low income and without insurance, check with your doctor's office, there are programs that you can get on to get your medications paid for, but it is limited on what they will pay. Sometimes you might have to get priorauthorization for certain scripts.

Best wishes to you. I am sorry about your rls.

Hugs, Karen
Posted 5/18/2011 6:46 PM (GMT 0)
When I discussed getting a presciption or either Mirapex or Requip for RLS my doctor told me he would not advise it as the side effects are brutal.  No thank you.  Like Karen, I have to get up and walk around or shake my legs.  I have two callouses on my big toes from shoving them under the footboard of the bed, trying to keep my legs from moving around. A friend just told me about an OTC med for RLS called Restful Legs....she claims it works but I haven't tried it yet.  PLUS...it's only $4.00!

I notice they are no longer advertising both of those drugs on television any more...they used to be on a hundred times a day.  Hmmm.

Donna

Posted 5/18/2011 11:53 PM (GMT 0)
I take Requip for my RLS, and I actually haven't noticed any side effects and all, and it definitely helps. I think it's really hard to say what will happen....as everyone reacts differently to different meds.

Thought I gotta admit, the thought of hallucinations from Miraplex would scare me....
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