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by pamhb
Sat Oct 07, 2017 3:46 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Medical Marijuana
Replies: 521
Views: 93530

Re: Medical Marijuana

ThOne thing I'm realizing is that it may just be a matter of increasing my doses. I try to make it last, because it's so expensive compared to prescriptions, but lately I've tried just consuming as much as I thought I could, and I actually had some good nights with 8+ hours of sleep. I think I need...
by pamhb
Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:04 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation
Replies: 20
Views: 6637

Re: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation

I found a list of vascular headache treatments, which again shows a startling alignment with my own experience with RLS which is worsened by certain vasoconstrictors and improved by certain vasodilators: https://selfhacked.com/blog/natural-tre ... r_or_sauna.
by pamhb
Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:47 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation
Replies: 20
Views: 6637

Re: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation

Reporting in on my personal lab rat experiments: 1. It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that food triggers play a far larger role in my RLS than I had previously imagined. On the days that I restrict my food intake to foods which I am reasonably confident are "safe", I sleep better,...
by pamhb
Sun Oct 01, 2017 2:28 am
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Medical Marijuana
Replies: 521
Views: 93530

Re: Medical Marijuana

All joking aside (and my apologies for to the MM readers for drifting off topic), I looked up aluminium and was surprised at how pervasive it is, including in food products. A tough sensitivity to have.
by pamhb
Sat Sep 30, 2017 3:42 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Medical Marijuana
Replies: 521
Views: 93530

Re: Medical Marijuana

Gosh, NatWest, you mean I might have to give up my tinfoil hat??? The aliens have given me this disease you know.... :D
by pamhb
Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:42 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Medical Marijuana
Replies: 521
Views: 93530

Re: Medical Marijuana

Hi pambb, What I don't get, is why it works one time, and another time the exact same thing doesn't work at all! It's frustrating, but I keep a positive attitude. Each night as I get into bed I just am convinced that I'll go to sleep and wake up in the morning. My personal conclusion is that if one...
by pamhb
Fri Sep 29, 2017 7:27 am
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation
Replies: 20
Views: 6637

Re: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation

Here's a journal article on a study which concluded that RLS patients have poorer vascular endothelial function than normal healthy subjects m. Endothelial function is improved by increasing the available amount of nitric oxide in our systems. Here's an article on how to improve our levels of nitric...
by pamhb
Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:14 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Medical Marijuana
Replies: 521
Views: 93530

Re: Medical Marijuana

I only use it at night, and not during the day at all since I don't need it for either sleep or RLS during the day. By the way, I tried taking it sublingually last night, and found it didn't make me nearly as sleepy. So I'm going back to swallowing it with a bit of juice. My bedtime routine is to ta...
by pamhb
Thu Sep 28, 2017 5:48 am
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation
Replies: 20
Views: 6637

Re: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation

A bit more reading on the subject and I discovered that salt isn't a vascular constrictor -- while it raises blood pressure, it does so by increasing the amount of stored water in the body, which puts a strain on the arteries by increasing the the volume of blood being circulated. So my good night a...
by pamhb
Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:35 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation
Replies: 20
Views: 6637

Re: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation

Yes, we are all different, which is one of the frustrations of this disease. I have high blood pressure, so reducing salt intake is something which is good for me in any event -- but I can guarantee I'm not likely to be a zealot about it! (I like salt too much for that to happen...). I just intend t...
by pamhb
Wed Sep 27, 2017 10:38 pm
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: reflections on a bad trip to the RLS specialist
Replies: 22
Views: 3846

Re: reflections on a bad trip to the RLS specialist

Yawny -- it feels like a constellation of very small muscle twitches -- fast, numerous, and concentrated in my lower legs. I've never had them before. I had fast food that day which likely contained MSG, as well as trying out the THS oil, so either might be the culprit. I intend trying out the THS o...
by pamhb
Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:32 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation
Replies: 20
Views: 6637

Re: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation

. \ I honestly don't know how you (and others) can find those triggers. My symptoms are so up and down, I would never know if a certain food was causing them unless I repeated the experiment a number of times. It's tough identifying triggers. The conventional way is to either keep a food diary, or ...
by pamhb
Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:15 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation
Replies: 20
Views: 6637

Re: Food Triggers and Vascular Dilation

It is interesting that you tie the food triggers to migraines since migraines often are a co-morbid condition with RLS. I have both but was treated for the migraines long before my RLS diagnosis. During the early days of migraine treatment I was able to identify three different migraine triggers. U...
by pamhb
Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:48 pm
Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
Topic: Medical Marijuana
Replies: 521
Views: 93530

Re: Medical Marijuana

This is a continuation of a discussion that was started between Polar Bear and myself on a different, unrelated thread. Polar Bear has significant sleep issues, separate and apart from her RLS symptoms. Sleep is her first goal at the moment. She is from Northern Ireland, which as just legalized the ...
by pamhb
Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:11 am
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: reflections on a bad trip to the RLS specialist
Replies: 22
Views: 3846

Re: reflections on a bad trip to the RLS specialist

Regarding the CBD oil: I use a product which is CBD mixed with an edible oil. 1 ml of the product contains 23.7 mg of CBD and a trace amount of THC. The equivalency factor is stated to be that 5 ml of the CBD oil = 1 g of dried cannabis. You start the product at a low dose and titrate up until you h...