I had a very bad reaction to quinine may years ago, I ended up too weak to get to the phone and lost nine pounds that weekend. I have restless leg syndrome and since I have been having to take potassium elixir (my levels keep being low for some as yet unexplained reason) it does not bother me nearly as much as it used to. I have avoided taking Requip because of some of the possible side effects, and I am the queen of side effects. It is one of those drugs that was developed for one thing (Parkinsons) and is being used for another. I hope you can find something that works for you.
Leslie
http://www.askapatient.com/viewratin...58&name=REQUIP
I hope you can find some help. I have spent many miserable nights because of RLS and then my fibromyalgia flares up when i don't get enough sleep.
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Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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