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- Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:41 am
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: RLS and bladder spasm treatment using PTNS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7107
Re: RLS and bladder spasm treatment using PTNS
Surgery often does make symptoms worse. Since this isn't surgery, I don't think it would be the same. But, just a guess.
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 7:01 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: RLS treatment at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
- Replies: 1
- Views: 800
Re: RLS treatment at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
Interesting, Rick. Which specialist did you see that said receptors permanently damaged? I think Dr Ondo was working on this...but I may be remembering incorrectly.
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 6:31 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: If you've had trouble getting an opioid prescription
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1366
- Sun Nov 13, 2022 7:33 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Weaning off Ropinirole
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11054
Re: Weaning off Ropinirole
Hi jblackburn67. It is almost impossible to switch without the help of an opioid if you are augmented. It may cover symptoms later (it doesn't always do that for those who have augmented), but gabapentin cannot cover the symptoms as you cut back the ropinerole. It usually take between 5 days and sev...
- Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:58 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Article on Medical Gaslighting in the NYTimes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8539
Re: Article on Medical Gaslighting in the NYTimes
That was a very good movie.
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:57 am
- Forum: Help for Relationships
- Topic: For Anyone Who Thinks RLS is a Joke
- Replies: 29
- Views: 61080
Re: For Anyone Who Thinks RLS is a Joke
I was nowhere close to your 30 years, but meditated regularly for about ten or so years (I also swam about a mile 5 days a week, and am sure that they worked together to change my life). Losing that practice has made my life so much more chaotic. It was slow, but over time I've become more reactive,...
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 10:53 pm
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Frustrated with it all!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15192
Re: Frustrated with it all!
And crap, I didn't realize Dr B is 70. OMG. What will we all do?? He's such a life-saver!! I mentioned that to Dr Winkleman recently when we talked about the RLS opioid study they are doing - what was I going to do when DR B retires?????? Move to a new state???? What a freaking mess this can be.
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 10:48 pm
- Forum: Augmentation
- Topic: Is augmentation permanent??
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12044
Re: Is augmentation permanent??
So evidently rapid augmentation, and permanent augmentation, is not unusual. And yet, and yet, STILL the medical establishment is convinced augmentation can only occur if you've been on high doses for years. So much education of medical providers is still needed. It really needs to happen in Medica...
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 10:30 pm
- Forum: Augmentation
- Topic: Is augmentation permanent??
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12044
Re: Is augmentation permanent??
Beth, that is "interesting" that you augmented in just 4 months because so did I, and not at a very high dose. Anybody else out there who augmented quickly and didn't revert to their pre-DA condition? Maybe it's a thing. It was for me, too. We know of at least a handful of people here who didn't re...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:34 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: PLMD
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15662
Re: PLMD
Oops.. I meant to say that people who play racket sports have less Alzheimer's and less dementia than people who play other sports I had been playing pickleball last summer until I injured my hip. Maybe I need to get back to it. If only I could figure out what was causing the hip problem, darn it.
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:32 am
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: MUSIC / FRISSON
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15393
Re: MUSIC / FRISSON
Boy, do I hear you on the apathetic. When I was in my thirties and forties and the RLS was causing issues, I fought back. Now, as I get close enough to think about retirement age? I just want to make it through. I have no energy. I just don't care the same way.
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:11 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Methodone
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6856
Re: Methodone
What was the outcome, dallen54?
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:06 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Hot flashes with Methadone
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2022
Re: Hot flashes with Methadone
No hot flashes for me. I get them, but it's hormonal in my case.
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 9:16 am
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: Vacation Reprieve
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18741
Re: Vacation Reprieve
I also have never found that vacations help. Wish they did! Often mine is worse, usually because I tend to do heavy activity and that almost always makes symptoms worse for a week or so.
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 9:14 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Horrible side effects on pregabalin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3689
Re: Horrible side effects on pregabalin
I question how many people react favorably to this class -so many people report here that they aren't working. That said, many of us here, as with me, started with dopaminergics and the alpha 2 delta ligands do not work well for us. At the point most of us get here and our lives have been so negativ...