· Jul 20, 2026 7:18 pm · edited Jul 30, 2026
The 2024 sleep-medicine guidelines now advise against dopamine agonists as a first choice, mostly because of augmentation:
What changed in the 2024 RLS treatment guidelines?
For those who were on one of these drugs for years: does that match what happened to you, or did it keep working fine? I'm trying to get a sense of how common the bad experience actually is.
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