Mirapex probably wasn't part of Lewis Carroll's world, but then again...

Mirapex has been great for me but I have had to manage it carefully - at first it worked quite well, alone; then I maxed out on the dose and the doc added Sinemet while reducing Mirapex to 1 mg 3x daily. However, on the combination, I started to eat voraciously and gained about 20-30lb....

('A loaf of bread,' the Walrus said,
'Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed --
Now, if you're ready, Oysters dear,
We can begin to feed.')

Then I noticed that my credit card debt had ABSOLUTELY SOARED.

At that point my neuro took my dose down to .5 mg Mirapex and raised Sinemet to 1.5 mg - both 3 or 4 times a day. I feed great on this mix and am working on paying down the debt - which actually seemed to me like a very reasonable response to having Parkinson's - I felt there was no tomorrow and I might as well buy or eat anything I wanted to at the moment! The peril of living for today only.

I also believe that ginseng, curcumin and fish oil, etc. have really been helpful to me.

Good luck - we are so different from one another!

Sasha