Posted by sowhysosad on September 16, 2009, at 11:29:09
In reply to Re: meds + restless leg » sowhysosad, posted by cactus on September 15, 2009, at 22:06:59
> > That's interesting. The soon-to-be-ex Mrs Sad was hitting the antihistamines over the Summer for hay fever which could have made her RLS worse.
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> *if they were sedating ones, then a very big yes*May well have been. I can't remember which one she was taking but I do recall reading it was an SRI.
> Repreve/Requip was fantastic, and it also blew my depression out of the water but it also made me blow chunks so I had to stop after 3 months.
So presumably it must indiscriminately antagonise dopamine receptors? I believe it's pre-synaptic (D1?) receptors that are associated with nausea, not the post-synaptic ones that would be the target of the drug.
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