Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

I had read articles that Wellbrutrin was the best for RLS patients as well as anyone with PLM disorders. I got along fine with it and no exacerbation of RLS except it caused me to have hair loss. After reading these postings I think I will try to take citalopram and see if that does anything to RLS....

thank you for the above comments. I am Type II Diabetic and I us the Lantus insulin pen plus metformin and the doctor is wanting to add a pill to help control the Blood Sugar through out the day. the problem has been that the pills for diabetics that we have tried seem to exacerbate the RLS. I have ...

Does anyone one have trouble with insulin and RLS getting worse. Alice

I have a question about Blood Sugar and Diabetics. Does high BS worsen RLS? And, has anyone had RLS worsen with the Lantus Pen? Alice

Dear Polar Bear, This was the only change in meds I had started taking and then I noticed hair loss rather quickly, within 3wks or so. So I checked posting from "ask a patient.com and saw several posts on there about people experiencing hair loss with Wellbrutrin as a side effect and I wanted t...

Does anyone know if the smoking cessation drug "Chantix" causes problems with RLS? Alice

anyone experienced hair loss when using Wellbrutrin. ??? Alice

I started taking Wellbrutrin and it realllly helped with relaxing and sleep at night and depression was much better , not to mention it helps with weight loss, however\, I started losing hair and I had to stop it.
Has anyone had this cause hair loss? Alice

drop foot and RLS Show Details FromAlice Yates To'alicefaye1212@yahoo.com' Has anyone had an experience with Drop Foot? I am tripping and falling because my foot is at times turning under when I walk. In the below articles they are doing "decompression surgery" as a new treatment. And they...

Victoza and Byetta injectible meds for Diabetics ....has anyone had worsening of RLS? I have to have surgery again next Wed. 4/17 and I can't tell if the med Byetta is causing worse RLS or if I am experiencing augmentation. About the same time I started this drug (which works great by the way) I sta...

does anyone know if the diebetic drugs Victoza pen or Byetta caused RLS to get worse? Alice

Has anyone used the 24 xl release requip, which is now in generic form. Your Dr. can determine the mg's to give you. I take mine at 3pm to catch the circadian cycle along with 2mg of requip and 200mg of gabapentin at bedtime. this usually works and has releived the daytime RLS too. ' Again, your dos...

does anyone know if "nitroglycerin worsens RLS? Or any Blood Pressure Med? Or any anesthesia used in surgerys? I have had 8 surgerys in the last 2 years and had RLS reactions most times when they wanted me to be perfectly still afterword and I could not. I just don't know what the culprits were...