BigAppleChick, I am so sorry to hear that you have had all of these new problems come up! With dopamine agonists, you can feel more fatiqued, but if the symptoms are severe, you can ask your doctor to reduce your dosage to see if that helps. ![]() I haven't heard of dopamine agonsists lowering the immune response before.. hmmm... wonder what the literature says? Hmmm. here is one on Lupus and autoimmune diseases..... Bromocriptine in rheumatic and autoimmune diseases.
Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2001 Aug;31(1):21-32. Review. One on Lupus: Walker SE.
Treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus with bromocriptine.
Lupus. 2001;10(3):197-202. Review.
Here is one on immunity: Kadioglu P, Acbay O, Demir G, Gazioglu N, Gundogdu S.The effect of prolactin and bromocriptine on human peripheral immune status.
J Endocrinol Invest. 2001 Mar;24(3):147-51. Hmmm... well go to one of these articles and press Related Articles, language=_javascript_1.2>
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