I wrote on another thread I was taking Mirapex for leg and back movements during the night. I noted the rather extreme side effects, but the doctor had not read them, was in a hurry--although she usually gives me plenty of time (she's the pcp, can't say the same for the specialists). Now I'm having some really bad side effects, so off the Mirapex even if I have to jerk at night. I'm praying to not jerk so I can sleep. But I'm having emotional problems which came on suddenly and which I attribute to this drug primarily--depression, and that's a side effect. I was doing well emotionally, so fie to the Mirapex.

I was poisoned for about 14 years by taking Meprobamate, a muscle relaxer. It helped my severe stomach pain, which may have been spasm caused by Porphyria. But finally this drug (one of the ten worst for Porphyria) gave me extreme neurological problems which resulted in MS diagnosis. As some of you know, my MS and Porphyria dx's are entangled, no hope of disentangling them because some of the neuro symptoms are the same. I do have the MRI and VER showing MS damage after taking Mepro. Was it really Porphyria? Considering that several relatives on the same "line" had MS, I suspect I have both diseases. And that one caused the other. So not to worry about that, just to say that this drug pushed at me hard for 14 years without adequate thought gave me even more severe neuro problems than I'd had. A good doctor got me off Mepro with Klonopin, the only way to break the Mepro habit. I thought the habit was hopeless until I met this good doctor, who was a maverick, but RIGHT!

My son begged me to get off Mepro all the time he was growing up. Just the way he flushed my cigarettes down the toilet. Poor little boy having to grow up with sick drugged mother. Phooey to the whole thing.