Posted by jerrympls on December 24, 2004, at 0:27:54
In reply to MIRAPEX Dosage Info and Link, posted by SDW on December 23, 2004, at 22:04:05
> The slow dosage increase is very important with Mirapex, and I think increasing too fast is how people are likely to run into side effects that cause them to discontinue before they know if the med will be effective.
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> The therapeutic Range is 1.5 mg to 4mg daily, taken in three divided doses.
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> However, Pfizer recommends starting with .125 - .5 mg 3 times a day (tid) for one whole week, then adding .25 - .5mg (tid) per week until there is a response (up to a total of 6 - 7 weeks). This will help minimize the two most common problems: nausea and sleepiness/fatigue.
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> I have had some fatigue but no nausea – I take it with food.
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> I plan to go up a little faster than is recommended, but I don’t expect a response for 1-2 more weeks, when I reach 1.5 – 2.0 mg total per day.
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> MIRAPEX Full prescribing information is here:
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> http://www.bidocs.com/renetnt:/Prescribing%20Information/PIs/Mirapex/Mirapex.pdf?DMW_FORMAT=pdf
>Please keep us updated! I'd love to hear that it works!!
poster:jerrympls
thread:432949
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