Re: driving restriction while on Requip

[Greg Sterling <sterling@xxxxxxxx>]

Marg,

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

Greg
47/35/35
:)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marg Meikle" <mmeikle@xxxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: driving restriction while on Requip


> My neurologist in Vancouver called me last week and told me to stop
> driving--that he was now liable and had had some bulletin suggesting this.
> We had gone over it before and he wasn't worried but this did it. So I'm
not
> driving for 3 weeks til I get this stuff out of my system (1 mg every 3
> days). Did  the same with Mirapex.  Stay tuned for the next episode of
> agonist du jour.
>
> Marg Meikle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
> [ Behalf Of Murray Charters
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:57 AM
> To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: driving restriction while on Requip
>
>
> Hi Mike and Barbara,
> I don't know of any ban and I called the Pharmacy and they have no info...
>
> I have seen this post from my friend Judith ....
> http://parkinson.ca/board/messages/165.html
>
> I'm aware of this background info...
>
> June 09 / 1999
> Researchers Identify Potentially Dangerous Side Effect Of Dopamine
Agonists
> 
>
> July - 1999
> Alert---Sleep Attacks Associated With
> Pramipexole (Mirapex) And Ropinerole (Requip).
> 
>
> 02 / 14 / 2000
> Anti-Parkinson Drug, Requip (Ropinirole),
> Can Cause Patients To Fall Asleep Without Warning
> 
>
> I found no references on Health Canada's site re: driving...
> 
> Health Canada - Search on Requip
> 
>
> SmithKline Beecham's site (US) has no info restricting driving...
> SmithKline Beecham on Parkinson's / Requip
> 
> 
>
> United States
> Major pharmaceutical products of
> SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
> (Scroll down to Requip)
> 
> (US prescribing information)
>
> On 21 Feb 00 at 14:49, Mike Stewart wrote:
>
> > I understand that recently (Feb 2000) a ban on driving while on Requip
> > (Ropinerole) has been instituted in British Columbia, based on a release
> > from some "Canadian Health Bureau" dictum. Driver's liscences are a
> > provincial responsibility in Canada, while health warnings are often
> > issued by some National authorities.
> >
> > Can readers provide me a copy of the actual dictum as noted above?
> > Can readers advise if a similar ban has been instituted by other
> > jurisdictions in Canada, the US, England etc?
> > Can readers advise if the use of Mirapex (Pramiprexole) has similarly
> > led to a driving ban in any other jurisdiction?
> >
> > Your assistance and reply to both the list and my email would be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> > Vancouver, BC, CANADA
> >
> **************************************************
> all the best ............ murray
> Murray_Charters@xxxxxxxxx
>