THEY ALSO SAY I HAVE RESTLESS LEG SYNDROM, AND I TAKE MIRAPEX FOR THIS, DOES RESTLESS LEG SYNDROME CAUSE YOUR LEGS TO HURT ALL DAY? I REALLY NEED TO KNOW, I AM TIRED OF HURTING!
Anyway, the only way to diagnose Neuropathy or Polyneuropathy is via the lovely EMG/NCS. If you have nerve damage, it is a very unpleasant test. If you do not, it won't hurt at all. My neurologist just recently wanted to do the test again, but I begged him not to. We know the Polyneuropathy is worse, I said let's leave it at that.
I have multiple Autoimmune problems and it would be interesting if these two could fit in that catagory. That would explain a lot more.
I think the one you are thinking about is called Hylands and it is a supplement.
t know about the Monavie but what I take and is wonderful is Mirapex. I take it 3 times a day and have no restless legs unless I skip a dose or run out and then the RLS returns. I hope this has helped.
I'm on .25mg of Mirapex for RLS and am gaining weight. Has anyone else experienced this. Any idea as to why. Suggestions? Thanks!
Thank you for your feedback. We would also love it if doctors would give out MedHelp's URL to their patients to help track symptoms. Then their patients could just click Email This on their trackers and send it to their doctors for review.
We could easily add Restless Legs as a symptom and Mirapex as a treatment to the Sleep Tracker. Would that work for you?
I loose a lot of sleep. I get in day and night. My arms even jerk and have that restless feeling. Mirapex is taken twice a day and don't help. No drs will address it and I'm miserable . Is this a lack of a vitamin or mineral. Do I ever get rid of them?
Hi - my neurologist has recently put me on 2400 mg of Gabapentin per day for severe RLS, along with the .5 mg Mirapex and .5 mg Clonazepam I am already on. I also had a double bypass about 1 1/2 years ago and am on a lot of different heart meds. For the past two days I have been experiencing numbness in my left arm and hand. I called my pharmiscist just now and he says it is a side effect to the Gabapentin but I should get use to it in a few days. I worry because it is my left arm.
I have RLS and take Mirapex, .25mg about an hour before bed. It has worked great for me. I tried the Gabapentin and got up to 1200 mg - which was also taken before bed, but it did nothing for me. I have been told that Mirapex works much better than Ropinerol - you may want to talk to your doc about Mirapex as an option - it just went generic.
But waht i wanted to comment was something i read here from a poster about some meds for RLS... mirapex and requip... it seems they increase the dopamine levels with some side effects not to get overlooked by someone with addiction issues... The poster shared her experience with mirapex of getting addicted to gambling. It can happen. She even left a link of a documental made in Canada about this terrible effect of mirapex.
I have tardive dyskinesia which is clinically similar to Parkinson's and I have tardive akathesia which is similar to restless legs syndrome but it would depend on the cause of it. If its clinically similar to Parkinson's, I did not find Bachlophen, Mirapex, Aricept and Requip to be of help but many people do. I was ruled out for Tetrabenzene and Namenda but those have shown to be of help.
the first one, Carbadopa, helped initially, and then not. Now I am on Mirapex, and again, it helped initially and now it is not, even though the dosage(s) were increased.
You may want to schedule and appointment with a neurologist, just to get a check; make sure you look into what other symptoms (sx's) you may be experiencing, even if they seem unrelated.
Good luck and keep us posted!
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