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Brand Name: Mirapex
Manufactured: Boehringer Ingelheim
Active Ingradients: Pramipexole dihydrochloride
Therapeutic actions: Pramipexole is in a class of medications called dopamine agonists. It works by acting in place of dopamine, a natural substance in the brain that is needed to control movement.
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| DRUGS |
FORM |
Q-TY |
PRICE |
ORDER |
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| Mirapex 0,25mg |
Tablet |
30 |
51.68 $ |
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| Mirapex 1mg |
Tablet |
30 |
156.93 $ |
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What is it used for?
Pramipexole is used alone or with other medications to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, including shaking of parts of the body, stiffness, slowed movements, and problems with balance.
Pramipexole is also used to treat restless legs syndrome that causes an unusual urge to move the legs.
Contraindications and cautions: In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. For Pramipexole, the following should be considered:
- if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to pramipexole or to any other substances, such as foods, preservatives, or dyes.
- Pregnancy - pramipexole may interfere with the pregnancy when the mother is given doses many times higher than the human dose.
- Breast-feeding
- Other medical problems:
• Eye problems, especially with the retina
• Hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there) or
• Hypotension (low blood pressure) or
• Postural hypotension (dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting, especially when getting up from a lying or sitting position)
• Kidney problems
Side effects: Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
More common
Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting, especially when standing up; drowsiness; hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there); nausea; trouble in sleeping; twitching, twisting, or other unusual body movements; unusual tiredness or weakness
Less common
Confusion; cough; difficulty in swallowing; double vision or other changes in vision; falling asleep without warning;; fearfulness, suspiciousness, or other mental changes; fever; frequent urination; memory loss; muscle or joint pain; muscle weakness; restlessness or need to keep moving; shortness of breath; swelling of body; tightness in chest; troubled breathing; wheezing; writhing, twisting, or other unusual body movements
Rare
Abnormal thinking; anxiety; bloody or cloudy urine; chest pain; difficult, burning, or painful urination; dizziness; frequent urge to urinate; loss of bladder control; mood or mental changes; swelling of arms or legs
Other side effects not listed above may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your doctor.
Interactions: Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. When you are taking pramipexole, it is especially important that your health care professional know if you are taking any of the following:
• Carbidopa and levodopa combination (e.g., Sinemet) or
• Levodopa (e.g., Dopar, Larodopa)—Pramipexole may cause an increase in the side effects of levodopa; your doctor may need to adjust your dosage
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