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Mirapex - The only med approved for RLS in Canada, is it any good ?

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canoe.ca (a very reliable site for rx drugs info, often has inactives etc.) says so

http://chealth.canoe.ca/drug_info_details.asp?brand_name_id=586 - Mirapex

http://chealth.canoe.ca/drug_info_details.asp?brand_name_id=585 - ReQuip

Only Mirapex is indicated for RLS, ReQuip being reserved for parkinsons.

Any good ? I'm currently tapering from Suboxone and will take all comfort meds possible, especially since almost all of them are free (too bad our only version of Ambien just came out, Sublinox, sublingual tablet 10mg...44,50 for 15 dollars).

I know I will be able be given Tramacet (no pure tramadol in canada except as Zytram, and I don't want those massive doses) when i reach 4mg, am now at 8, was at 10. Right now all I get is RLS and just pure insomnia valium will not touch except for 2-3 hours a day. Horizant, the weird gapabentin XL isn't available here. Doctors here were never big about tramadol, it's weird, probably because a lot of our docs are old and just know that good old codeine and low dose morphine pills are efficient since forever...anyways, I've read enough around here that i'll be able to take 150mg as I taper and it will help a lot.

I wonder how Mirapex could help me, if the opinion here is that Requip is better I could try to have it scripted off label I imagine, probably would be the first time I'd be glad to have something offlabel, if you guys think it makes sense.
 
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