RLS started on ropinirole. Does it help??

Requip worked for quite a while.  Initial dose age put me to sleep exactly one hour after taking it.  Also, always a headache.  I cut back on dose age amount as time went on and also augmentation began.  Sinimet worked but had to increase dose pretty quickly for effectiveness.  After 5 months developed muscle spasms in back then legs that left me in excrutiating pain and on crutches.  Needless to say I quit.  In early years Robaxin, muscle relaxant worked great. - for years.  Then added Tylenol/codeine for pain and relief.  Again worked for a long time.  Now on gabapentin, sometimes small amount of Requip, Norco or Tylenol/codeine as I get severe foot and leg pain these past several years as well as "jumpies" as I called them for years.  Lidocaine 5 percent patches are a big help with pain in feet, knees, etc.  Seeing neuro in a week as gabapentin is not stopping pain.  Jumpy ness it controls sometimes yes, sometimes no.  One BIG help is taking HOT showers directing water on my feet and legs.  As hot as I can possibly stand.  Seems to numb the pain and if I have taken opioid pain meds with gabapentin and perhaps Requip I am usually able to finally get to sleep with legs quiet.  Going to ask about Lyrica, nerve pain blocker to see if gabapentin is augmenting.  Start with Requip but doseage may need monitoring and only take at night.  Worked like sleeping pill for me, plus miserable headache in a.m.

 

Hi Kerry I am taking ropinarole only 0.25 mg per pill I have found them brilliant for me no side affects at all they seem to work quite quickly and I have found that if I take them every 4 hours and keep them in my system I feel normal again of course as soon as I lapse or drink alchahole I get it all back again and of course it wakes me up through the night I am up to 6 pills in 24 hours now I think these will augment much earlier than pramipexole which I took for 5 years before I had to change my advise is try it I don't know what dosage they are giving you ????

regards coral

I was on 1 mg for a few years.  Took one hour before bed and it put me to sleep exactly one hour after taking.  It did the trick but did give me strong headaches.  I put up with the headaches for rls relief.  Did begin to experience augmentation after a few years.  Cut back on doseage and added gabapentin recently.  But, be aware of tiredness and headache side affects and perhaps need to adjust doseage.  Also, common augmentation as time goes on.  If it helps, go for it.  Sure better than the suffering this disease can cause.