Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Steve, My situation is somewhat different, however I am using Kratom now on probably a temporary basis. I augmented on pramipexole a month or two ago and was able to switch to Neupro patches, sort of following the international restless legs study group recommendations on augmentation which on page ...

Holland, ... I just know that I was told that I had to go to the state medical school if I needed something other than a DA or an alpha-2-delta med. I don't yet know whether this is going to involve. Steve, It seems extremely unlikely that no doctor in your state except for a medical school doctor ...

Holland, thanks for your comments. I have reviewed my state's current guidance documents to physicians and they do not seem to be too aggressive in limiting the use of opiates for chronic pain. However, as best I can tell, no doctor in my town is willing to prescribe them. I don't know if it is the...

Ann, I live in California, have been retired for 6 years, however at the time I retired there was more pressure to prescribe opiates for chronic pain patients than there was to avoid prescription. Prescribing rules are determined on a state-by-state basis. If you had that many doctors avoid prescrib...

I don't know how doctors generally feel about kratom. I'm a retired doctor but when patients approached me about supplements that I didn't know much about, I generally said give it a try. I suspect that very few doctors have ever heard of it at all. Kratom is a special circumstance in it is not appr...

I have been using Kratom for the past 5 days now, while I have been withdrawing from the dopamine Agonist neupro. I mix three-quarters of a teaspoon with approximately two tablespoons of grapefruit juice, let it sit at least 20 minutes and make sure it's ice cold before drinking it. The bitterness o...

Polar bear,

I had my ferritin checked a couple of years ago, it was "normal" at 28. Since then I now realize that a normal blood ferritin doesn't correspond to a normal brain iron and have since been trying to get my brain iron up by taking three times daily ferrous sulfate.

Steve, The pressure on doctors not to prescribe opiates is somewhat overblown. Just a few years ago California passed some regulations requiring doctors to be open to prescribing opiates for chronic pain as many chronic pain patients were not getting enough pain relief. Since then the more open pres...

Hi my name is Holland. I'm a 68 year old retired MD, internal medicine. I've been lurking here a few weeks now. I have had RLS since about age 35, my mother had it as well. I've been on medication a little less than two years, requip, then mirapex, then neupro. Had rash with neupro so went back to m...