Cabergoline and Tiredness: What Users Say

• Jaz...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• August 15, 2020

For Hyperprolactinemia "I'm a 23-year-old female. I just recently found out about the tumor 4 months ago and was prescribed cabergoline. Before I started this medication, I was good with my life, happy, and stable, but now that I have started this journey, I am depressed again, but this time it’s worse. I can’t control my emotions at all, and when I mean at all, I literally mean at all. I’ve been crying every single day heavily for a whole day. I’ve been treating the ones I love wrong because of my mood swings and how fast I switch up for no reason at all. I’ve been more tired than normal. I get hot flashes and cold sweats left and right. I feel nauseous all the time and bloated, and I honestly just don’t feel like myself anymore. I feel like I’ve lost myself so badly. The only good thing about this medication that I am thankful for is getting my periods back. Other than that, this medication and the journey I’m on with it still are really, really rough, and I’m just tired of all of it."

• Add...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• March 8, 2021

For Hyperprolactinemia "I’ve been taking cabergoline for 2 years on and off again. I say on and off because of the extreme side effects. If I don’t get a proper night's sleep and drink plenty of water, I’m a different person. I’m angry, I’m anxious, I’m sad, tired, and so very tired. I wake up feeling like I’ve spent the last 5 years in a desert with very limited water. I’m not myself, and I can't handle this medicine. I wish there was something else."

• Gan...
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• July 23, 2019

For Hyperprolactinemia "I was prescribed this medication before and now again due to recurrent high prolactin (twice the normal). Before this, I was feeling a bit depressed, but it was manageable. You can recover right away. But this time, I'm taking it with Visanne due to endometriosis at the same time, and the side effect is so magnified. I feel so depressed, all emotions are overwhelming. I'm still on 1/2 tab 2x per week, and I've been taking it for more than a month now, and I can't sleep. I feel tired always, I can't find happiness and am severing my relationship with others due to uncontrolled emotions. I feel like I'm going crazy. I asked the nurse regarding my feelings, and she told me to just bear a little because it is really the side effect and not me."

• Mal...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• April 3, 2016

Cabergoline for Hyperprolactinemia "I have been taking Dostinex/cabergoline for 14 years. The main constant side effect is headaches. It feels like an ice pick is stabbing me in my head for a couple of seconds, and then it goes away just as quickly as it started. It only happens maybe a couple of times a month. I also find I get tired more easily and sometimes need to rest during the day. In addition, my vision has worsened. I stopped the medicine for about a year now, and I'm getting dizzy quite often lately, and my vision is worse. I fear my tumor has grown and need to see my endocrinologist again. God bless all."

• Tin...
• August 14, 2015

For Hyperprolactinemia "I have a macro non-functioning pituitary adenoma, which is causing compression of my pituitary stalk, 'stalk effect,' which causes increases in prolactin blood levels. My endo put me on this to reduce the 'stalk effect' I'm suffering from my macro adenoma. My crushing headaches have weakened, the lactating stopped, and my period is back on schedule. However, the side effects are extreme. They last about 5 days after taking my dose for the week. The nausea is unbearable, causing me to take a drug for that at $104/month, as I spent all day vomiting. I have what I describe as a feeling of being drunk and hungover all at once. I can't drive, but for two days a week. So tired, dizzy, weak, low blood pressure, flu-like. I am hoping for surgery soon, but I live so remotely logistics make it difficult, as I'm 13 hours from the specialists. I rated a 5, as the headaches were horrid, but so are the side effects."

• Anj...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• December 15, 2018

Cabergoline for Hyperprolactinemia "After getting nauseated and not being able to function well on the other two Dopa agonists I tried, no nausea and no noticeable dizziness on this. Immediately upon starting cabergoline, I slept like a baby. It was a very noticeable change. Then, after a few months, I became an insomniac. The other persistent things were that I developed a stuffy nose when my dose was due and for about a day after taking it (every four days). I was also more tired the day after I took it (always at night). A good side effect was being able to drink very little with full effect. My temper was better than it was prior. It may have boosted my libido slightly. Eventually, I got my dose down to about an eighth of a pill, then a couple of months ago, I lost my bottle. Withdrawal was sleeping incredibly poorly for about four to five nights. I’m not lactating, as I did every time when stopping it over the years, so maybe middle age is working for me. Cheaper in Canada, but recommend you get brand Dostinex only."

• Gue...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• February 27, 2015

For Hyperprolactinemia "Cabergoline has been effective in lowering my prolactin levels and shrinking my tumor. However, the side effects are rough. Dizziness, extremely tired, nearly constant nausea, which often leads to vomiting. Cabergoline is better than the other two medications I have tried, though."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 1 to 6 months
• December 16, 2012

For Hyperprolactinemia "I took cabergoline twice a week (at night) for 5 months. The day after each dose, I felt extremely tired, nauseous, dizzy, constipated, and had a numbing headache. The symptoms got worse over time."

• Cin...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• September 27, 2019

Cabergoline for Hyperprolactinemia "My mood changed in a blink, felt so happy for a while, then I would feel depressed again... It made me feel tired during the day."

• sum...
• October 30, 2018

For Hyperprolactinemia "I have been using cabergoline for one month now, but day by day I'm gaining weight, feeling very tired, mild headache, sleeplessness."