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My immediate request is whether anyone here has had a lawsuit against the company that first introduced Requip to the PD world. My husband wants to know this. Let me tell you our story briefly. My husband was prescribed Requip 18 years ago as it just came on the market. We went along with it all these many years. We followed the doctors' orders. This year when we agreed it was time for him to go to assisted living, what we had lived with for the years at home became public. Three days in his new surroundings, he had a psychotic episode in which he was saving the world from their manufacture of missiles. He was Baker acted (involuntary commitment to medical treatment) and there in that medical facility with my encouragement they began to take him off Requip. He was released from the psych ward after only reducing him from 12 mg to 8 mg . He went to another ALF where he had another aggressive, psychotic event and was Backer acted again to the psych ward where finally with my constant mantra of yes let's keep taking him off this, he no longer is on requip. He is in a new ALF, he has made a week without an incident, much calmer without erratic body movements or hallucinations. He does not seem so aggressive. Today he told me his body feels better. I can see he is less able but now we will work with the neurologists to try to help him have a better quality of life. |
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Hi, my husband has been on 2mg of Requip, three times a day for over eight years. He hasn't shown any bad side effects so far. But, to answer your question, no we haven't had a lawsuit. It took him about a year to get the dosage corrected, but for him, it has become just one part of his treatment. He really doesn't take many meds, so the Requip doesn't bother him as much as it does others. Good luck and I hope you find answers, if not here, somewhere else. |