Is Pramipexole Out There?

[Guest PramQuestion]

Pramipexole has been a drug I've heard a lot about in certain circles (I was in a study at NIH), but not one I've heard much being prescribed "in the wild" so to speak. Is there anyone out there on it now?

[Greenyflower]

Here's a link to more information from rxlist. It's a dopamine agonist and used in the US for Parkinsons and Restless Legs Syndrome.

RxList

[LikeMinded]

Hi there,

I'm on Mirapex/pramipexole (0.5mg 3 times a day for a total of 1.5mg/d), but for a parkinsonian syndrome (due to infection) and not for psychiatric illness (I'm on Cymbalta and Lamictal for that issue). I didn't see a significant change in mood once starting Mirapex, but maybe since that was because my depression was in partial remission as it was.

I have heard of psychiatrists swearing by it for BP depression... maybe they read this research article...

[link=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17854248?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum" target="_blank]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1785424...Pubmed_RVDocSum[/link]

(The article is a review of many studies using pramipexole for depression, and the authors even pooled together every statistic they could find in order to give us a conclusion.)

Anyways, talk to your doc and find his/her opinion about this. Best of luck in getting treated!