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Sorry to have to butt in here with one of the principal reasons for the list's existence - comparing our personal experiences with medications - because the political context in which we find ourselves is so very important to us all also. I have been on Requip for, I'd guess, four years now. My present dose is 2 mg, four times daily. I was just talking with another PWP who offered me a supply of 0.25 mg tablets. Her purpose in having a large quantity of this size was that she had just titrated off Requip. She had seen me walking in pain several weeks back - and the reason that she had titrated off Requip was that she had identified the Requip as the source of her pain. Suddenly the thought struck us that Requip may be my problem also. The pain that I have can be anywhere in my body - it moves from place to place - sometimes in my shoulders but most often in my hips or my left leg. When it is in my hips, I find standing for any time to be difficult. When it is in my left leg, walking is extremely difficult: I fear putting weight on my leg, lest the pain become unbearable, he leg buckle, and I fall. And when the pain disappears, as betimes it does, I feel relieved to have only the Parkinson symptoms. We know of yet another person who has had the experience of pain that dissipated with the discontinuance of Requip. At least initially, her Movement Disorder Specialist knew of no connection between the pain and the medication. Has anyone else on the list had a similar experience? Someone else who takes Requip and has pain? Someone who had pain until he or she discontinued Requip? This appears to be an excellent topic on which to exchange information. Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn