I am a 30 year old female, married with 4 kids. I have had so many health problems lately, and so many diagnosis, that I am starting to wonder if it is something else? I feel like there is no way I have all these things wrong with me! That and the treatments never seem to work. Here are my problems. Migraines-I get headaches almost on a daily basis. Half of the time they turn into full blown migraines. I am on a medicine to help prevent them, that seems to work only part of the time.
The stiffness and tightness of muscles is mainly due to Polymyalgia and Fibromyalgia. There is no specific treatment for these conditions. A combination of medications (muscle relaxants, pain killers, antidepressants, steroids), physiotherapy and exercises, massage, warm compresses may help to relieve the symptoms. Lyrica has proved to be very effective medication for treatment of muscle stiffness. Numbness may reduce after physiotherapy.
our father who is 78 is starting to hallucinate he was hospitalized about a month ago for pneumonia.he was also taking requip for his restless legs,the doc. took him off of requip because of side affects 4 days ago. we dont know if that could be the cause of his condition or not,he also had a cat scan of the brain, it was normal.he sees people that are not there, he realizes later that it is not real. he is getting depressed and scared,we dont know what to do anymore.
I have not found anything that works for the pain, (I tried LYRICA - had bad side affects) I now use pain pills (which I buy over the internet (I am too afraid to ask my doctor for pain medication- he treats me like I am a Hypochondriac)) I take REQUIP for the RLS which helps somewhat. and I take BACLOFIN for the muscle spasms which does help. but I have not found anything to help with the overall body pain and the Exhaustion. I am open to suggestions on which to ask my doctor for.
My current sleep doctor feels that Sinemet, a dopamine replacement, should be reserved for use after dopamine agonists such as Requip and Mirapex are no longer useful.
I can give you a few hints on optimizing the effectiveness of your Sinemet rather than keep raising dose: No protein to eat unless long enough before dose for the food to have already passed thru the small intestine. Small amout of starchy food food can help when taking med, but no large amounts of food before taking the med.
If you suffer from anixty and depression cymblatta cant spell it but its an andidpressant good for anixty and nerve pain, i tried requip,lyrica and all had no effect and lots of side effects.
pm me anytime your not alone i dont have any family who can help and only the odd friend can help as they busy and got family of there own.
what are you on at the moment?
I was prescribed Requip for RLS, which I had so bad with my Tramadol withdrawal, I would rock and bounce for hours during both the day and night. I had RLS for at least 6 hours or more a day for almost a month.
I took the Requip for the first 40 days, now I take it 2x a week. My doc said after I hit 2 months or more off the opiates, we can talk about me jumping off the Requip all together.
It sounds like you have been diagnosed with RLS and requip worked for you well until it was determined to be causing side effects, and you were switched to Sinemet. One known side effect of Requip is swelling in the legs; it sounds like you had an extensive evaluation for all the symptoms you began experiencing after January 2008.
Sinemet works well for RLS symptoms, but has a higher risk of eventually causing what is called augmentation, or the occurrence of symptoms earlier in the day.
For the past month I have been having strange RLS-type symptoms in my right leg AND arm. My leg has a constant 'electrical' feeling that tingles and I feel the urge to stretch and move. My arm however has been achy throughout and tingly in all my fingers and palm. These sensations change, the tingling goes from mild to severe, as well as the aches. But it never goes away completely. My left side is not affected at all. Could this be MS? A pinched nerve? Something else?
He feels like something is crawling from his feet up his whole body. We have tried cleaning whole house for fear of bugs been in our house.
I have now read on the internet that it is possibly a Parasite in the body or in the skin ????? Does anyone know about this r can you help.
Has anyone tried Requip for Restless Legs while trying to detox off of Subutex or Suboxone? This is the worst part for me in trying to get off of Subutex & I am literally scared sh**less of them. I had them so bad that I almost over-dosed on Klonopin & Somas (from a family member) to rid myself of them. I am on less than 1 mg of Subutex a day now & having anxiety & diarrhea. That I can handle, but the RLS I can not. Any advice or experience would be great!
I've got severe RLS 24/7 and have been taking Requip for the past several years, Mirapex before that. It's gotten worse lately so the doctor had me go cold turkey 5 days ago. He gave me Klonopin to take at night, but it doesn't do anything other than make me even more tired. I managed to get 6 hours sleep on day 4, but that's it for the whole week. The doctor says that I can't go back on the dopamines (Requip) since they have started augmentation (making the RLS worse).
It's possible that you have a real medical issue with RLS and if that's the case Requip works great and it's not addictive!
On the other hand if it does have something to do with w/d's then I would suggest eating bananas as they really do help.
If the bananas don't work after a few days then I would go to your doctor and tell him what's going on with your legs and he will probably give you the Requip. I'm currently taking it and with no side effects at all.
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