Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

One of these days I'll order this on Kindle (the actual book isn't available in New Zealand). I've heard interviews with Marty Makary and his latest book sounds interesting.
Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health

You will be very happy when it levels off.

You don't know what causes Restless Legs …

Actually, scientists are certain brain iron deficiency causes Restless Legs.

I'm in excellent shape. Practice yoga, lift weights, walk 7k or more most days, swim laps. But it's my gabapentin and codeine that allow me to get six hours of broken sleep each night. Before gabapentin I was up half the night crying.

I've been practising yoga for years. The only time I get a benefit for my RLS is in the middle of the night, otherwise not.

Good luck. There's nobody in New Zealand but some younger GPs know about RLS. I was lucky to find one.

"Sliced Bread" is a BBC podcast on various topics to see if the item studied is the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.The host consults with experts to reach conclusions The latest episode is on weighted blankets and although any extra weight on my legs would drive me crazy I found the p...

Even though I was 100% sure the bar of soap trick wouldn't work I tried it too. Ha ha.

I take 1,000mg of gabapentin two hours before going to bed. That's in addition to 2 x 60mg codeine, once an hour before bed then on my first wake up call around two hours after getting to sleep. That drug arrangement seems to do the trick for me even though I rarely sleep more than two hours at a ti...

Not sure about the UK but I think all overseas issues will be by email which is a shame because I will flip through the pdf once, maybe twice but with a physical issue I'd read it thorougly and sometimes pass it on.
Polar Bear, maybe since you are a moderator you will continue to get a paper copy.

Trigger points for me is life!

Sounds like an interesting bood.
A friend had pulmonary fibrosis in his early fifties. He was too sick to get a lung transplant so he died. He was ever hopeful of a lung transplant which was good for his mental health.

Congratulations. Fresh fruit and veggies are the best.
I eat lots of fruit but not much in the way of vegetables. I know it should be the other way around.

Like an unwanted guest who will then not leave.

Great analogy!

That's the way it is with Sinemet and other dopamine agonists. At first we think a miracle has occurred but then it turns to the absolute opposite—hell on earth.