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Dopamine Agonist Withdrawal Syndrome Almost Killed Me

Dopamine Agonist Withdrawal Syndrome Almost Killed Me

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Owen Scott Muir, M.D, DFAACAP
Sep 18, 2024
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I hadn’t slept well. It had been a couple of weeks of not sleeping well. On top of a few years of not sleeping well. People describe This kind of not sleeping well as “not sleeping well” in order not to say, “I literally didn’t sleep at all, and that’s definitely pathological, so I’m not going to say that part.” My situation, at least the prior night, debatably still going on at 5 AM, involved the “not sleeping at all” variety of the problem.

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