I started on .25 mg of ropinerole. Took that for a year. I’m now on .50 mg

@A MyParkinsonsTeam Member Believe me, I did lose the will to live. I talked about suicide almost every day and screamed and cried my voice away (I used to be an opera singer, but no more). I also cried my eyesight away, and yes, you can do that. I had such panic attacks that I felt like I sprained my neck muscles from gagging so much (that's how my panic attacks manifest). Sometimes something triggers me and I feel horrible again and I have screaming matches with myself, when he's not home, telling him exactly what I think of him for what he did. Then I look at him when he comes home and love and pity fill me and I forget my anger and try to move past this whole horror. He looks so ill, falls asleep at the table while he's eating breakfast, staggers out the door and works like a dog to make money for us. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. He has agreed to take early retirement and we are just starting to build a new house in another state and make a fresh start. He has so much pain, can't sleep from jerking legs and pain all over, can't stay awake when he just had a night's sleep...every time he teeters backwards, my heart stops and I spring forward to catch him. The stress on both of us is terrible. But maybe in the new house, which is right across the street from my sister, we can have peace and I can have a support team so I don't have to face this alone anymore. He has been deathly ill from one of his meds, fallen and needed several surgeries for broken shoulder, collarbone, hand, etc., stitches in his forehead...I don't know what's next and I'm so worried, my hair has thinned terribly. I have aged ten years in just the last year alone. DivaSharon is not such a Diva anymore. No more glamour girl, just a tired, sad wife with chronic pain from my injuries, a limp and other pains from falling...sorry to unload so much, I guess I needed to get it out.

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A MyParki...

I certainly do

Iv never even heard of it so many pd drugs

well it seems to help i take it 4 times a day. i pray for a cure. good luck to all.