Guest guest Posted April 14, 1999 Report Share Posted April 14, 1999 Dear Group, After posting several of you to say what relief I've gotten from Requip, of course, now TROUBLE in river city. I have taken it for about a year and went from 1-2 hrs of sleep a night prior to the drug to 6-8 hrs of good rest. Along about the 1st of March I had a bad bout of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and it came and went several times. Lots of cramps and finally lower abd painful ache, etc. But, the most profound realization was that my blood sugars (I am a type 2 diabetic) were escalating at an alarming rate. I began to eliminate my oral meds one at a time and when I stopped the Requip for one night only, the next day.....no bowel pain. Of course I only slept a half hr due to the extreme RLS. I went back on the Requip at a reduced dose and the synptoms are back. Am seeing my General practitioner tomorrow but my guess is, I am discontinuing the Requip and will see what effect it has on my soaring blood sugars and bowel symptoms. The package literature states these are infrequent side effects,( at least the hyperglycemia) but I have been known to have the more UNUSUAL med side effects. (Also have already had some bowel diagnostic tests done and so far nothing remarkable to account for abd symptoms) So, as I believe said, just when you think you're home free, guess what.....back to square one. At this point, after all of the meds I tried that made me ill or just didn't help, I feel pretty much in a pit. This has been pretty rambling....I am really in a poor state of mind. Windtree/, 60, Wis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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