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 jewunit
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 Miraplex... 
#8218867 - 03/31/08 12:59 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Side effects include impulse gambling, stronger sexual urges, and a higher desire to eat.
Fucking strangest side effects I've ever heard.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: Miraplex... [Re: jewunit]
#8218875 - 03/31/08 01:01 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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 They must be pumping it into the drinking water in Atlantic City.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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 RoosterCogburn
Fearless,one-eyed U.S.Marshall
Registered: 08/25/06
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Re: Miraplex... [Re: jewunit]
#8218876 - 03/31/08 01:02 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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My Dad has major gambling issues because of it... And it's Mirapex... no L.
He spent ZERO dollars at a casino before he was on it. In the last 7 or so years, he's gone through $300,000+. It's fucked up. Thankfully, no weird sexual stuff... But slot machines make him insane, literally.
He takes it for his Parkinsons.
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jewunit
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Registered: 01/11/07
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Loc: Ohio
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I saw a commercial for it today for RLS. Read a buncha stories of people losing hundreds of thousands at a time and gaining 50+ pounds in one month. That's so shitty.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: Miraplex... [Re: jewunit]
#8218888 - 03/31/08 01:04 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I don't understand how a chemical can make you want to gamble.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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jewunit
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Registered: 01/11/07
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Loc: Ohio
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I think it increases your dopamine, maybe? So it makes things more pleasurable. I think that's why it helps RLS too.
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: Miraplex... [Re: jewunit]
#8218900 - 03/31/08 01:06 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just read about it on Wiki a little. They think it's because it has to do with a brain receptor in an area involved with reward.
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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.
-Erik Davis
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RoosterCogburn
Fearless,one-eyed U.S.Marshall
Registered: 08/25/06
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Loc: Dirty South, NJ
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Yeah... My dad takes dopamine for his Parkinsons, and the Mirapex is an agonist or something that makes his regular meds work better.
It is about the "reward". When I take him down to AC for supervised trips, it's likie watching a lunatic. "Gimme one more $20... just one more and it'll hit, I can feel it. Cmon, just one more $20."
It's kinda scary.
Fuck Mirapex.
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flexintexan
Future DO
Registered: 03/29/08
Posts: 517
Loc: Fresno
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Dopamine agonist. Whatever your vice is, the pleasure drive increases. So it might be food, sex, gambling, or spending.
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