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Reviewer: diane, 65-74 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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Reviewer: DwainB, 65-74 Female on Treatment for 1 to less than 2 years (Patient)
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Taken without food, this medicine makes me violently nauseated! But it lets me sleep and totally does away with my restless legs.
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Reviewer: Buster, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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This drug has helped me with my RLS. The side effects I have experienced have been a cough from taking the medication and vomiting. Those are the only drawbacks, but it does help me sleep. If I don't take it (which I never miss), I am up all night.
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Reviewer: dcorrie, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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Sometime during the second and third weeks of use I started to experience very lifelike hallucinations which I didn't even realize until I questioned a family member about something I remembered happening which didn't really happen. As for the RLS, it worked great!
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Reviewer: saxon, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 10 years or more (Patient)
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Take for RLS daily for the past 10 years. 1 mg tablets. They have been a god-send. While it takes 1.5 - 2 hours for the medicine to kick in, the symptoms are pretty much gone for at least 6 - 7 hours. I sometimes take a second pill in the very early morning. If I forget to take pills on a trip, I will not sleep at all .....I also may take a pill if I am to be in a car/plane for extended peri
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