I posted on here about two weeks ago when I had been taking pramipexole for five days.
It’s now been 3 weeks in total and I’m currently on 1.875mg (salt). Here’s what’s changed:
TLDR: Massive improvement in functioning and immediate happiness. Only minor improvement in excitement/long term joys and goals, and sex drive.
What Pramipexole has done:
- I’m fully functional now. No more laying in bed all day
- Excitement for the immediate future. Excitement to go to uni, excitement to go eat, excitement for anything happening within the next few minutes to hours
- Immediate joy. I’m usually fairly happy in any given moment in general
- Being able to do things genuinely (hanging out, work, gym etc) instead of forcing myself
What Pramipexole has failed at:
- Substantially raising my sex drive. It has about largely stayed the same, perhaps a minor increase
- Don’t care about anything more than a day away. Don’t care about getting a relationship , job, money, etc. if it’s not happening today I will feel zero excitement when imagining it
- Passive suicidal ideation. I still want to die in general. The intensity of this desire fluctuates but it’s there most of the time
- the happy state is generally constant but I have crashes every now and then where I return to my pre pramipexole state. They usually last a few minutes to a few hours- happiness/normality dominates
Overall assessment:
Pramipexole has done way more than I thought and I’m so grateful. I ideally want to work on fixing the gaps it has failed to fill but for now I’m glad to just be functioning and happy.
Feel free to ask any questions!