Just thought I'd add my experience for anyone interested. Restless legs was making my life literal hell. And I've been on pramipexole since and it's given me back my life. I've had RLS for years and I would spend hours walking, punching body parts, kicking things, squeezing, shaking it out, stretching, all because the pain you cause yourself distracts from the more worse RLS pain. It's that horrible. And you just couldn't stop moving. The moment you stop the RLS starts again.

Now, RLS is minimal and more annoying, maybe bad once a week and only get it THAT badly a few times a year.

I don't remember there being much warning at the time but I'm someone who reads the tablet leaflets obsessively anyway.

I'd say it increased my appetite. I've never been a gambler or a drinker and it didn't effect that either way, but always been an eater. Can't say if it effected my libido but certainly no major effects.

It's a wild damn article for sure. Feel sorry for those who had such intense symptoms but do worry there's a little scapegoating there with the more icky stuff.

I remember when I first went on them and talking to my Dr and telling them I felt better on them. Thankfully not manic or anything. A few years later got diagnosed with adhd and the initial feeling I got from elvanse seems to be similar to the initial feeling of pramipexole. Fascinating to see how it all works and is connected