Starting Requip
 

Kim,

I have never taken it, but I do know that everyone reacts differently to meds.

Ask your pharmacist how often he/she has patients with these complaints....

Try it tonight and see what happens....tomorrow hopefully is a down day for you at home....

Good Luck!

I found that I actually slept better, and felt better in the morning. No side effects that I have to report. Your doc will bump you to 1mg, not 10mg....it's a very low dose drug :)

Oh yeah! I think you'll like this much better! Sometimes I will take it around 8PM so it is kicking in by 10, and when you get into bed, you will be relaxed and ready to sleep. Let us know how it goes for you :hug:

Good question? I know when I got mine, it came in one of those new packages..the first week was .5 and the second week was 1. The prescription he wrote was for 1 too. Not sure why they up it?

So glad it worked so well for you!! I hate pills too, and am very sensitive to drugs, so I tend to do well on the low doses. Let me know what your doctor says....if you ask him about it.

I'm seriously considering Requip. I normally just plow through any pain I may have at any given time, but this nighttime crap is getting to me.:mad:

My legs are slightly spastic all the time, but at night, they hurt and are jumpy/restless and keep me awake a long time. I keep getting up, making myself more comfortable and then laying back down, only to repeat, until I finally fall asleep from exhaustion.

I wonder if Requip would help me? I don't take a bunch of meds...just LDN and Prozac and an occasional asprin.

Thanks for this thread BTB...:hug:

The Requip worked wonders when I first started taking it...the RLS I'd been suffering from was calmed down. I was on 1 mg/day.
Then the RLS began earlier in the evening, so the neuro upped the dosage to .5 mg in the morning and 1 mg in the evening. The RLS didn't start until around 8 pm.
Now it's starting around 6 pm. I've read that the body builds up a tolerance to the drug...which is what I think is occuring with me.

That's exactly what happened to me. It worked in the beginning, then stopped working. I had to keep upping the dose. So I went back to Klonopin. It works a whole lot better and you can play with the dose...up and down with no problems. And you can take it at will...no tapering or titrating. ;)

And it doesn't have the same side effects as Requip...you know like gambling and sexual side effects! :eek:

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Are you sure you spelled that correctly??? The wordsmiths are on the loose...:D

Here FIFY!!!

LOL! That came out wrong...it should have been the smiley that rolls back and forth! Don't know why it didn't take! :o

Guess I'm off my A :D

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Yeah....it's not working.

yep,I first was put on it for muscle spasms. And the sleep study I did showed that I Had RLS to begin with.
It has helped somewhat for the muscle spasms in my arms,and the leg charley horse feeling in my legs,and feet cramps.

ok,Im adding something ,
I started the "have to move my arms" thingy as one of my first sx at onset of ms,
Then that went away after about a month.
Then did the sleep study,and they found that i have RLS in my legs,then I brought the muscle spasm thing up to my neuro and she did the dose pack thingy U guys were talking about.
Ive been on requip for a year,and I started to have 3 nites a week with the feeling bleeding trough the requip.
Which sucked too. NOTHING I did made it go away. So,my neuro told me to start my neurontin back,and see what happenes. I did,I was taking 1,200 mgs after my last flare,but now Im just on 900 mgs at night. I still maybe will Have 1 night a month,instead of 3 nights a week.
So I think the combo of the requip and the neurontin has something to do with everything calming down.
but the idea of after a while it stops to work as good really makes since....