Requip for Restless Legs Syndrome User Reviews (Page 2)

• Dav...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• July 19, 2015

"So far, so good. I have mild RLS compared to others, I think. For a long time, I didn't know what I had, and the doctor thought at first it was neuropathy in my feet. Tried some other meds for that (Cymbalta, Amitriptyline), both did not help, with some side effects. I started the Requip at one pill, 0.25 mg, for 2 days, and it seemed to work well but with some pain still. Last night, I increased to 2 pills at bedtime, and pain is pretty much gone. My doctor said to increase the dose if I need more relief, up to a max of 2 mg after an appropriate waiting time. No side effects so far."

• NFa...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• April 5, 2017

"I was told to take this medication around 5:00 PM. After taking this medicine for a week, I decided that I couldn't take it anymore. It kept me awake and still had restless legs. When I did sleep a little, I had bad dreams and I had repetitive thoughts all throughout the night. It was weird. I cut out caffeine and tried walking more and decided to try it again for a week but no change. I just couldn't take it."

• Anonymous
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• July 8, 2012

"I began taking Requip when it first came on the market for restless legs syndrome. My symptoms got better for about 6 months, then slowly got worse. As the dosage increased, so did the symptoms. What began as nightly leg twitching/aches got so bad I began having anxiety attacks at night. It was very common for me to have an anxiety attack and end up getting up on the computer until about 3 a.m. until I couldn't keep my head up anymore (getting up at 5 a.m. for work, I was a walking zombie). Also, as the dosage increased, I began having symptoms while sitting at my desk at work and also experienced nightly vomiting/dry heaving. I became suicidal. After 6 years, I switched to Mirapex. After 5 years, I'm on minimal dosage with incredible results. I feel human again!"

• Wor...
• April 7, 2008

"I have moderate-to-severe Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). I take 1 or 1.5 mg of Requip nightly. It is 100% effective in eliminating all symptoms of RLS. I have no side effects. It has been a miracle drug for me. I also want to say Mirapex (pramipexole) was also 100% effective for me, with no side effects."

• Kat...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• November 1, 2018

"Been on Requip, 1 mg for over ten years. The first 10 days or so, it was awful. Thought I would pass out. Kept stopping and starting again. Then, like magic, no more side effects and worked 90% of the time. Retired this year and switched to cheaper ropinirole, 2 mg, as the lower dose was useless! Nausea too. So, now it’s 8 months later and switched back to brand Requip. Some things are just not worth the cheaper price. Grateful I will sleep tonight!!"

• Dot...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• July 31, 2018

"I had been suffering with restless legs for many years on occasion, while sleeping. Then it started every evening about 3 years ago. Started taking Requip 1 mg about 2 years ago, and it takes 1 - 2 hours to work. Sometimes I have to take another pill during the night. I do not have any side effects, so I am very satisfied with it."

• Sho...
• Taken for 10 years or more
• August 31, 2019

"Wonderful, especially the extended release. Generic makes me deathly nauseous. Requip is a miracle. Have had RLS since 10 years old. I am 63. Wocart stopped making generic that did not make me sick. Had to go to the brand name. Made me sick first 2 nights. Now the miracle for me."

• Izz...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• December 29, 2018

"Had been taking clonazepam for RLS. In the hospital, the doctor decided to switch to Requip. That night traumatized me for a long time. Side effects, electric-like shooting pains exiting from my vertebrae bilaterally. When I returned home, I looked up this medication. The approval rating was high, but if you read the side effects people had, I would not recommend it to anyone. Leg pain with gabapentin. Mirapex made my muscles cramp up. My mom loved it, but I am back to clonazepam. Quality control was bad with generics, but as anyone who suffers from RLS knows, you get quite desperate, almost frantic if you run out of medication. BTW, antidepressants exacerbate symptoms."

• Bja...
• February 1, 2011

"I have been taking Requip for almost as long as it has been out. Yes, it is a godsend for me. My RLS was so bad I would cry myself to sleep, and if I was in a movie, church, or at a play, I could not sit through the whole thing. I just only hope someday they will find out what causes this. I have to take 4 mg a day. I take one in the morning and one in the mid to late afternoon, and then the other two about 30 minutes before going to bed. It feels so good to sleep all night, but now I also found out about peripheral neuropathy and have to take medication for that too. But as long as I take it as the doctor orders, I do fine. I feel for everyone who has RLS."

• Ste...
• Taken for 2 to 5 years
• December 3, 2014

"I've had an extreme case; it starts in my legs and finds its way to the arms and everywhere else. I've spent more nights than I care to remember screaming into my pillow. Requip completely quiets the syndrome - 100%. But... then I spend the next two hours wishing I hadn't taken it due to the endless projectile vomiting. I cannot take it, as I had developed hypophosphatemia from the vomiting. (I now take Klonopin 1 mg at bedtime, and it prevents RLS extremely well.)"

• Rea...
• Taken for 6 months to 1 year
• October 20, 2015

"I have had RLS since I was a child (now I am 38). Was on Clonazepam 1 mg as needed. Switched sleep doctors and am now under the care of a neurologist who recommended Requip. I started at 0.5 mg and am now at 1.5 mg. I have to take it earlier and earlier because the RLS is so bad. As I type this at 4:30 in the afternoon, I am ready to go get a saw and start cutting off at the knees! I think I am going to go back on the Clonazepam. This is miserable."

• Sin...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• May 23, 2019

"I was on Requip for my restless legs syndrome, which I got after having my son, but it got worse. My son is 41 now, and I am worse. I keep my husband up, and he works every day, and he needs his rest. Now the drug company says I can't take Requip name brand and have to take Ropinirole 2 mg, but I am up all night with legs jumping all night and no sleep and get up to go to the couch and try to sleep some."

• Sho...
• January 21, 2015

"My restless legs syndrome has become really annoying in the past few months. I was on Gabapentin, which seemed to help, but it started to become less effective, so the Dr. switched to Requip. On my first night, I felt sick and had flu-like symptoms. The next day, I took it early and immediately felt sick and started to throw up and felt chills and then felt hot. This medicine did absolutely nothing for me besides make me sick."

• EPH...
• October 31, 2016

"Have been taking this for years, and it definitely works for me, although it makes me very drowsy if I take two 1 mg at a time. In the past 18 months or so, my RLS has gradually become more frequent during the day, therefore, unable to sit in the afternoons, or if I'm on holiday, particularly in a hot country, they are a nightmare. Have recently been to the doctor and got 500 mcg, and when it's really bad, I'm going to try it and see if it helps during the day. On my last holiday, I took 1 mg about 3 o'clock, and it helped, but that only left 1 mg for the evening, and this meant it didn't last till morning. But to be honest, I think I need to up my dose, but am scared that my RLS is only going to get worse, so don't want to up my dose by too much."

• H J...
• July 28, 2015

"I have severe RLS and have slept on the floor for 25 years because the hardness of the floor against the muscles in my legs gives some relief. I have been on Requip for about 4 months and take 2 mg about 1.5 hours before bed. The effectiveness is hit or miss. On a good night, I fall asleep in about 30 minutes but wake up 3 to 5 hours later and toss and turn until the alarm goes off. On a bad night, I get about 2 hours of fitful sleep and then my legs ache for the rest of the night. Requip causes my legs to swell and I have had to increase my blood pressure meds. Also, it has given me some very interesting dreams. All in all, it is better than nothing because nothing means no sleep ever. I wish my doc would give me something else."

• Drm...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• February 15, 2015

"It works great for Restless Legs Syndrome. I can finally sleep at night. I'm 41, and the first time I experienced RLS, I was 8. I could just do without the side effects. I'm on 2 mg, and I think if it was upped, my side effects would worsen. I feel sick to my stomach. I vomit at times. I've had hallucinations. It makes me feel like my blood sugar is dropping, but it's not. Just makes my body not feel right. Thinking about finding something else without these side effects."

• Anonymous
• June 21, 2009

"Works great at getting rid of RLS, but causes rebound RLS after a few months of steady use. Also doesn't affect RLS brought on or worsened by extreme tiredness or dehydration. Rebound RLS is worse than before, and instead of having it a few times a week, RLS is constant after about 8 pm, and rebound starts up in the very early AM. It works well, but I started to have issues after several months."

• Anonymous
• April 10, 2012

"I loved Requip the first 3 months with no side effects. I was on 0.5 mg. Then I started to have anxiety attacks, emotional meltdowns, fatigued muscles, hot flashes during nighttime, and nausea. I stopped the medicine and all my problems went away, unfortunately, my RLS came back."

• Tex...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• February 18, 2016

"After years of suffering with RLS and two especially bad nights, I finally went to the doctor, and he prescribed Requip. Last night was my first night taking it, and it did work. It made me extremely nauseated and gave me a massive headache, and I woke up every couple of hours. The third time I woke up, I took a diphenhydramine sleeping pill. That is important to know because generally, a sleeping pill would send the RLS through the roof, affecting even my arms. No RLS symptoms after I took the sleeping pill. My head still hurts, and I'm still a little nauseated, but my legs are not bothering me. Since it did cause a massive headache, I will try using it only when the RLS is active and see if that works better for me."

• Sto...
• October 2, 2015

"Initially, the medication was very helpful, but the longer I'm on it, the less it helps. Now experiencing more daytime sleepiness, and I'm not able to stay asleep at night. Some nights it seems to help a lot, and then other nights nothing, it doesn't seem to help at all. Getting harder and harder to rest and feel rested. Going to my doctor within the next 2 weeks to discuss different medication. RLS is very frustrating."

• Mfi...
• February 14, 2021

"My wife has been taking this medicine for 3 years. She has been a lifelong, devout, churchgoing Christian. She developed an uncontrolled, secret, online gambling addiction that has likely caused us to lose our home just when we were fixing to pay it off. Destroyed our good credit rating, repossessions, etc. When I finally found out we had incurred $1800 in overdraft fees in only 4 weeks. She gambled my entire paycheck week after week and fell behind on the mortgage for MANY months with huge late fees attached and developed an awesome way to hide the addiction for a long time, which made the financial destruction larger than imaginable. She kept gambling anyway in hopes of eventually winning enough to fix the disaster this medicine created, hoping to fix it and I would never know. Doctors and pharmacists need to make it a priority to counsel the patient about Requip and plainly ask FREQUENTLY if the patient has found themselves gambling to help stop it before it destroys families."

• Cel...
• December 1, 2014

"I experienced bladder pain with Requip. I had a constant, frequent urge to urinate. This is not the most common side effect of this medicine; it is listed as 'less common.' But after taking this, I did have lasting bladder pain that did not go away after I stopped taking Requip."

• kit...
• December 27, 2011

"Requip has been a godsend for me. As with any other medication, it affects everyone differently. I take it only at bedtime because that is the only time it affects me. I do recommend this medicine to all that I know that suffer from restless leg syndrome."

• Sjc...
• Taken for 1 to 2 years
• November 20, 2015

"I have tried several different medications over the past years. Some work at first, but later stop. Some have horrible side effects or just are not effective. I have found that Requip extended release works nearly all the time for me. I have to set a reminder on my phone and take it (2 mg) at 4:15 pm. Regular (not ext release) Requip made me nauseous."

• Anonymous
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 14, 2012

"I have had restless legs syndrome for much longer than anyone knew what it was. I was a kid in the '70s getting in trouble for 'squirming' at my desk. It tends to act up more with periods of activity. When my wife and I were dating, I was at the gym and riding a bike, and I would wake up in the middle of the night and do stretches and anything to try and make the feeling go away. Recently, it has become unbearable again for some reason, it is ten years after the last bad period. I have tried Lyrica, which did not seem to help, Neurontin, which helped some but was wiping me out with tiredness, and I just switched to Mirapex because I couldn't see that 1-2 mg a night was doing anything but making me nauseous."