Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

I'm just curious - have you tried taking a second or third shift job?

I cannot work first shift. The RLS puts too much pressure on me to do that.

When I went to college, I went to night school. I AM a nightwalker. I like that term.

It still hurts. Mirapex helps me deal with it.

stretches help me too - I like the RLS rebel idea of using bands.

I can't really WALK - I have a very bad foot problem - and that makes my rls really torture - so what I do is stretch and stretch and rub and rub and beat my legs and hip.

I've tried all kinds of soap - doesn't help me one bit.

I have RLS in my right hip/buttock and it drives me crazy. I bought a 300.00 computer chair and it didn't help the RLS at all.

One thing that has helped me a bit is to switch to Crocs shoes. Now at least my feet feel better when I am up walking.

I'm a big time leg bouncer, but so is my husband. I have severe RLS, he doesn't.

As my RLS has gotten worse, the leg bouncing is just the same - its always been bad. I will say though that it DOES help the RLS - it helps me sit still and not get up.

The information always seems 'light' to me.

I know that I am not the only RLS sufferer who has been through total HELL with the thing. Lucilly I am having a good spell now, but for a long time I could hardly walk or sit and my symptoms were constant and very painful.

To me most of these sites ...

Neurontin 1200 mg
Ultracet prn
Mirapex
Lidocaine patches (for the neuropathy)

I also take vitamin b sublingual and a multivitamin with iron.

I wouldn't want to do that. When I've skipped doses of Mirapex, then I take it the next day, I notice that daytime sleepiness is much worse and sometimes feel a wee bit sick at my stomach. As long as I take it everyday, I don't have those side effects. Plus, my RLS stays under control so much better ...

I had to learn to take me an ultracet more often. It really helps. I guess I was hoarding them or something. lol It helps when you have medicine to take it, duh. I'm glad some of the folks on this board helped me realize that. I am much more productive now.

Oh yeah - that happened to me bigtime. I was in a rocker boot for uh, too long, and during that time my RLS changed and I was having constant pain day and night. It was miserable until I went on Mirapex. I was freaking. I thought I had bone cancer but couldn't get anyone to listen to me.
It got ...

That's interesting. I have bone spurs, I know, L1-L4, and mild degenerative disk disease and scholiosis. All I've had is an x-ray but my lower back gives me trouble. That is the hip that I have RLS in too.

It very well could be the RLS itself. I have terrible pain with mine - like broken bone kind of pain. Or if you've ever had really bad shin splints and mashed on your shins - that kind of pain - its a lot like that except you don't have to do the mashing, all you have to do is be still.

My RLS just ...

Mirapex is great for me, but I see things. I don't admit it to my doctor. It helps a lot, I don't want to give it up. I'll live with all the little black lizards and bugs that I see, even the big black dog I saw in my kitchen.

I don't know why, but everything I see that is not there is always black.

Oh yeah, I get those all the time. Some of it might be the mirapex, but I had them before the mirapex.

Mine was like yours for years. I just bounced and vibrated a lot and it didn't hurt, it bugged me sometimes that I could not get to sleep when I needed to, and the jerky heeby jeebies would get me right as I drifted off.

Then I had a ankle/nerve injury and spent a long time in a cast and mine ...