my girlfriend, who has a horror story to tell about the ravages of
mirapex on her own life, has recently set up a website to help all of
the many people out there who have developed O/C disorder and extreme
changes such as addictions to sex, gambling, shopping, drinking etc.
after starting the use of mirapex, requip, and other pd agonist drugs. i
i know only too well how this can tear a person apart and profoundly
affect the family support group. my thing was to max out all the credit
cards and have my husband confront me. i begged and i pleaded for some
understanding. after canceling all of my access to our money and to
those damn credit cards, he began a rapid spiral descent into
alcoholism. for two years our lives were living hell.the guilt that i
felt for causing all of this nearly caused me to consider a way out by
suicide. thank the good Lord that my husband sought treatment and
counseling for our family. he has been sober for almost 5 years now and
he will nevver take a drink again because he knows that if he does, it
will kill him. the man that i fell in love with is back living in our
home again and the entire family is healing. i have been on mirapex for
about 8 or 9 years and everytime i have tried cutting down or coming off
of it, i go into withdrawls. i now take 5-1.5 mgs. a day but no longer
have the compulsions that drove me nearly mad for a long time. it helps
that i keep myself busy and that i don't handle any of the money in our
household nor do i have access to the money that i raise for CALIPSO (so
_please_ don't worry if you have made a contribution to my
organization!!) so, if you are feeling all alone out there thinking that
no one understands or cares, please visit this excellennt website:
http://www.mirapexvictims.org/home.html
it is becoming such a fact of life that it was even the subject of a
Peopke magazine article recently.


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Joan Blessington Snyder   54/16
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“Hang tough……..no way through it but to do it.”
Chris in the Morning      Northern Exposure

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