Pat, you are so right, and when I first saw that they were using dostinex, I
asked one of the docs to show me references on the safety and efficacy of
this med. Here are two that I have on file, which they gave me.  A bit
outdated wuoldn't you say?    (Cabergoline is Dostinex)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_ui
ds=8713691&dopt=Abstract
Drug Saf 1996 Apr;14(4):228-38
A comparative review of the tolerability profiles of dopamine agonists in
the treatment of hyperprolactinaemia and inhibition of lactation.
Webster J

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_ui
ds=1676318&dopt=Abstract
: BMJ 1991 Jun 8;302(6789):1367-71
Single dose cabergoline versus bromocriptine in inhibition of puerperal
lactation: randomised, double blind, multicentre study. European Multicentre
Study Group for Cabergoline in Lactation Inhibition.

Apparently it is used in Europe.  Even Hale has a reference to it saying
that it is safer than parlodel.
I would love an argument to prove that it is not accepted in the US, if you
have any references
In the meantime, I keep knocking it off the table into the trash.....clumsy
me!!!!!
I have to give a lecture to the gynies in our hospital in the end of March,
and would love to throw this in just for fun!!

Esther G
Tel Aviv

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