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Skip ahead to July 2014. My husband, Ross, was in a meeting with a therapist and expressed his concerns about changes he saw in me. This medical practitioner asked what medicines I was on and started searching the internet. The results were amazing and probably saved my life. DAs can have profoundly unhealthy side effects for everyone but are particularity dangerous for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) one of my diagnoses. I have always believed we are each responsible for our own behavior and was shocked to learn this medicine can create compulsive behaviors such as gambling, shopping and eating. Other effects can include night eating, falling, nightmares, lack of sleep, joint pain and many others that have been affecting me over the last nine years, profoundly affecting me and those closest to me.
My first priority became learning how to deal with DAWS, getting off the Mirapex and treat the RLS in other ways. No one seemed to know how to treat this disorder and many believed there was no cure.
But, I was determined to get off this medicine and get my life back. Pain racked my body unceasingly. Confusion, disassociation, imbalance, blurred and double vision tried to become my constant companions but I refused to give in.