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Dear Rayilynlee & List This is also known as Mirapex. My husband's neurologist gave my husband Mirapex in combination with his Levodopa and he experienced severe hallucinations and confusion, so I took him off and call the doctor. We have not tried it again. However, in reading comments to this list of side effects from Levadopa, I will have to say that when we keep the dosage low (1) 25/100 and (1) 50/200 every four hours with (1) 50/200 at 6:00 p.m. I had been giving him (1) 25/100 and (1) 50/200 @ 6:00 a.m. with (1) 50/200 the other three time periods, however, he started having wearing off periods so I added the (1) 25/100 at the 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. periods rather than change the doseage times to every three hours. He was used to the four hour periods and a change would confuse him. I find you have to monitor the meds closely and change as appropriate to keep the level of meds in the system level as possible. It was not recommended to give the Levadopa after 6:00 p.m. so the meds could work out of the system, I go the impression from his neurologist the meds built up and they worked better during the day if they were not given at night. My husband has not experienced any of the side effects others seem to be having. There is a very good article on Parkinson's on http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/1680.51745 for anyone that is interested. While many of you know much of this information, there is still a lot that is interesting. [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: Rayilyn Brown <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 4:28 PM Subject: Pramipexole - promise for PD??? > Dear LIST, has anyone out there had experience wwith this med? If so what > arre the side effects? > "Dear Dr. L: just saw this in most recent issues of Family Circle mag: > "Preliminary studies show that a rug being used to treat the symptoms of > Parkinsons diseases (pramipexole) may also help prevent the disease's > progression. American Academy of Neurology" > > Since the regular agonists and Sinemet don't work for me and I"m not on PD > meds I'd be intersted to know if this assertion has any merit. I'm not > holding my breath. Maybe I"ve just missed discussions of it since I've > almost given up on PD meds. > > > Thanks, [log in to unmask] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn