Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Since I went off Requip for all the reasons you stated after taking it for 3-4 years....I have been taking one Hydrocodone each night. Once in a while I need to take another half, but that is it. I realize my RLS got worse over time due to the medication. The new rule is that there are three medicat...

I'll try again. The medicines are worse than the problem and they increase the symptoms while you are thinking that the RLS is just getting worse. I was ready to jump off a bridge. I decided to just stop. I went off Ropinerole in Feb. of this year. It has been pure hell....BUT I am better now. Be re...

Any doc's near San Francisco or north- Santa Rosa San Rafael, Napa, CA?

Mary......I have a long story but I'll try to make it short. I took myself off Requip in January after the worst RLS I have ever had.... I kept augmenting earlier and earlier, couldn't sit in a restaurant,movie or go out to lunch. Personally, I don't think it was just RLS but it was caused by the me...

I have been taking .25 of Ropinerole for about 4 - 5 years. I have had RLS since childhood. The augmentation was getting horrible...could not stand it anymore, so decided to quit taking my meds. I did not want to increase the dosage. It is now 7 months later and I have been through hell. No sleep in...

Hi....Have had RLS all my life. I am 70 now...started taking requip about 4 years ago. Over the past year my RLS got so bad I thought I was going crazy....the worst sensation ever....every night at 8 PM my legs would start up....also was getting it in my arms and hip area. I kept thinking....is this...

I was taking .25 every nite at the same time and every nite my RLS started at that time. It got worse and worse, the sensations became extreme and I felt hopeless as to what to do. No doctor can give an answer. So I decided to cold turkey...it wasn't fun but now, after the misery of getting off the ...

About two months ago I decided, on my own,to try the drug holiday. It was out of desperation.....the rls had gotten to a point of no return...augmentation during the day and night...crazy sensations in legs and arms....hardly sleeping. I have been taking Ropinerole for years and I was fed up with th...

Peanut1 I also feel my RLS has been made worse by the meds...(Ropinirole - generic for Requip). I never used to get RLS EVERY nite...now I do...at exactly the same time. Like my body is demanding the meds. I want to get off them...but psychologically, it's difficult. I feel like I will be up all nig...

Regarding lotions for the legs....I have had good success with Nighttime lavender baby lotion!

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