Dear Helen: I have noticed that since I have started to take Mirapex (about a year ago), I have felt better after eating. I'm now taking 4.5 mgs. a day & I get really shaky if I don't eat something-anything! Since beginning the mirapax, I have managed to cut my sinemet but I've gained 20 lbs. Everybody says that I look better than after my 2nd pallidotomy when I weighed 115 & looked like a war orphan but I'm starting to feel too heavy. I thought that this was because I can't move around & I'm sitting more-but now that you mention it, I think that it is because I have that brief utopia feeling after food! Shoot, my one last vice & I shouldn't be indulging in it anymore either! Darn the bad luck! -- --- Joan Snyder (47/8) "Do or do not. There is no try."Yoda [log in to unmask] http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm