Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

How are you taking your gabapentin? You should be taking 600 mg 1 to 2 hours before bed, than 600 mg 4 hours before, then 600 mg 6 hours before since taking more than 600 mg is not well absorbed.

Good luck recovering from your wrist surgery. I had surgery on the base of my big thumb in August so can sympathize with you.

Surgery can cause your ferritin to go up post surgery, and iron and TIBC to go down, so the 2021 results are probably more accurate. I would continue to take your iron. I assume you know to take it at least an hour before a meal or coffee and at least 2 hours afterwards. Great on see the Mayo Clinic...

You never said what your ferritin was. "Low normal" for regular folks would be much too low for rls. Do you know your ferritin number? If so and you can post it, I can advise you what to do.

I would not worry about gabapentin causing depression. That is not a common side effect. And if it does, you can stop the gabapentin right away at only 300 mg. I gained a couple pounds on gabapentin, but I am taking 1500 mg.

It's not likely to be from stopping the Neupro. Why don't you try going back to 600 mg of horizant and see if that will help. Is there any other medicine that you have started taking recently?

Do not take Nortriptyline. It makes RLS worse. The best antidepressant for RLS isWellbutrin. Your doctor said your ferritin was low normal. Did you get an actual number as what is normal for normal folks is not normal for RLS. If you did get a number, what was it?

I know this is an old discussion so my thoughts probably won't help you, but might help someone else reading this. I have nocturia and tried potassium citrate for my restless legs. It didn't help that but it did make my urine more alkaline and I found instead of having to get up every hour, I only h...

I tried Potassium Citrate, and it didn't do a thing for my restless legs. However, it did make my urine more alkaline, which for an 80 year old mean less trips to the bathroom at night. Now that I finished my experiment with potassium citrate for restless legs, I found I could reduce it to half the ...

I find that as I increase my dose of gabapentin, I get dizzy. Does this wear off? And how soon? And does it take longer to wear off at higher doses of gabapentin?

To be more specific. I definitely have restless legs syndrome and PLMD at night which is relieved by during certain exercises as described at https://www.healthline.com/health/restless-leg-syndrome/exercises-to-alleviate-rls#stretches. I sleep on my stomach and I have pain in the front of my thigh m...

Does anyone else have have pain in their legs?

Do I have to wait until I am off ropinirole to start extended release gabepentin?

But I am not stopping from a low dose. I am taking 4 mg of ropinirole. Would I still be able to quit ropinirole as I start the opiod?

If I were to go the opioid route - would I quit the ropinirole as I start the opioid? Would I have any withdrawal effects when taking the opioid and after stopping it?