Requip and Insomnia: What Users Say

• Pha...
• Taken for 5 to 10 years
• September 5, 2015

For Restless Legs Syndrome "I have been on Requip for about 6 years and have a severe case of RLS. My leg spasms have worn out many sheets. I would have to say I have a love/hate relationship with Requip. I take a 5 mg tablet 1 hour before bed. Almost like clockwork, 22 to 25 minutes later, I feel miserable with a constant feeling of the need to puke, but I don't. I have always had insomnia, which got worse on Requip. I have been able to address the insomnia with trazodone, and it works well. I have read others' posts, and I think I am going to talk with my doctor about spreading it out in 3 different times to take it. In the past 6 months, I have begun to have twitching in my arms, shoulders, and wrists."

• Anonymous
• February 29, 2012

For Restless Legs Syndrome "This somewhat reduced my restless legs syndrome (which occurs every other day and is enough to keep me up at night and be bothersome); however, it gave me insomnia, which came in the form of falling asleep relatively quickly, but I would wake up approximately every two hours in the middle of very vivid dreams. Each time I would wake up, it would take me a good five minutes to realize where exactly I was and that I was semi-awake in the middle of a vivid dream; then it would take me a good half hour to fall asleep again, and the cycle would repeat. The side effects definitely outweighed the benefits, and I stopped using after two nights. Now I'm on Gabapentin, which hopefully will work a bit better for me."

• she...
• March 10, 2015

For Restless Legs Syndrome "Requip stopped the restless legs, but caused severe insomnia for me, which defeated the purpose for taking it."

• Anonymous
• December 22, 2009

For Periodic Limb Movement Disorder "I couldn't sleep at all when taking Requip!"