I was on Mirapex and did develop some compulsive behaviors (spending, eating) and the doc cut the dose in half and raised the Sinemet. I'm doing reasonably well controling the behavior but at the price of more Sinemet sooner.

We all want new treatments brought to market more quickly - and, yes, left there as a choice available to us, even if some cautious pharmaceutical companies can project potential law suits! If we have our way thus, we are bound to get some drugs that have serious side effects in some of us! Is that an acceptible price to pay for getting potentially efficacious drugs out more quickly? Or should we wait unitl we are reasonably sure they are safe - as in a double-blind control group study of thousands of patients followed until they die a natural death, just to make sure that the new med doesn't shorten the life span?

It's a complicated issue.