Pramipexole Health Feed

Dear lybrate-user,
for long term mood stability, sometimes you may need many different tablet combinations. Try and report to your doctor after few weeks.
In psychiatry, there is no need of conducting 'tests' in your terms. The best test the psychiatrist conducts, is called as 'mental status examination'
diagnosis in psychiatry is mostly the symptom clusters and mental status examination.

Dear lybrate-user,
all tablets have side effects and interactions. Some side effects may be beneficial to you. You have to tolerate the side effects for the sake of the benefit they give. Major side effect on organs like thyroid, kidneys and parathyroid will be monitored by your psychiatrist periodically. There are plenty of alternatives - each of them side effects on its own.
I have already informed you that psychiatrist's tests.

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Such treatment is given in treatment resistant or severe depression, if no improvement you request him to change the medication.

It's good that you are not having symptoms of ocd currently, pramipexole is good for rls, but sometimes it also happens with deficiency of iron and folic acid, so you can take bcomplex along with iron capsules and pramipexole.

It may take several weeks before you reach a dose that works for you. If you are taking pramipexole to treat restless legs syndrome, you should know that as your treatment continues, your symptoms may worsen, may begin earlier in the evening or afternoon, or may occur in the early morning.

Anxiety and depression oftentimes go together. The weight gain is not surprising some due to the medication, and some due to lower metabolic rate, and low exercise, and emotional eating. There may be genetic influences for diabetes and she must take precautions. There seem to be some psychological problems that need investigation and treatment from a counselor too. I believe there may be some genetic predisposition or there has been some childhood issue, related to anger and fear, that needs urg...more

Please go back to your doctor and ask why you were prescribed pramipex since you do not mention your symptoms or any other relevant information.
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Restless leg syndrome
have you tested hba1c, vit b12 and vit d3 tests.
It is muscle relaxant.
More discuss on line.

Excessive shopping can be a side effect of pramipexole. Her medications will need to be modified. In view of memory loss she will need more evaluation.