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by badnights
Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:23 am
Forum: Just Joined?
Topic: Going insane
Replies: 11
Views: 5029

Re: Going insane

Hi Newly Your symptoms do sound like RLS/WED. If you reach a point where it's effective and you're not up to the doctor's recommended dose, contact your doctor and ask if you can hold it there (since problems do ensue more frequently the more you take.) But I wonder if Mirapex is going to do the tri...
by badnights
Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:56 am
Forum: Just Joined?
Topic: Help-exhausted mommy needs medicine...
Replies: 16
Views: 4573

Re: Help-exhausted mommy needs medicine...

Please read up on augmentation, which eventually happens to about 75% of people who take dopaminergic drugs for RLS/WED for a number of years, and is bad enough for them to quit the drug in about 20%. (Information from Allen and others, Sleep Medicine 12 (2011) 431–439). Just be aware of what it is,...
by badnights
Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:00 pm
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: death is the answer?
Replies: 112
Views: 24227

Re: death is the answer?

WED is a known aggravator of me
:D :D :D
I am at work, I can't really respond :~(
by badnights
Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:57 am
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: RLS Foundation
Replies: 6
Views: 1161

Re: RLS Foundation

Hmmm ... too true. I could too.
by badnights
Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:56 am
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: A breakthrough!
Replies: 9
Views: 1570

Re: A breakthrough!

Wow. I wonder what's going on. I wonder how many different sub-varieties of WED there are.
by badnights
Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:54 am
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: What makes your RLS worse?
Replies: 66
Views: 21213

Re: What makes your RLS worse?

:)
by badnights
Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:52 am
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: The Fear of Flying - Restless
Replies: 20
Views: 3692

Re: The Fear of Flying - Restless

It's horrible isn't it. My worst was a root canal but I survived it by bending my legs underneath me and doing other weird contortions as he was working. Lord alone knows what he thought. The thought of an AC/DC prescription made me smile. Some music makes my WED worse, and it's always slower, gentl...
by badnights
Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:18 pm
Forum: General Topics: RLS
Topic: death is the answer?
Replies: 112
Views: 24227

Re: death is the answer?

The worst thing about this disease - the second-worst I guess, the worst being the lack of sleep - is that people think there's nothing wrong with you. If I told people I had inoperable cancer, they would probably get it. (Inoperable because I have seen people assume a post-operative cancer survivor...
by badnights
Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:34 am
Forum: Prescription Medications
Topic: Starting the Search...again
Replies: 36
Views: 7312

Re: Starting the Search...again

that's potentially useful info on the trazadone, I might need that :~
The job-share sounds possiby do-able....
by badnights
Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:36 am
Forum: Prescription Medications
Topic: Ferritin and requip
Replies: 18
Views: 5256

Re: Ferritin and requip

1. Sleep Medicine v. 10 (2009), p. 611, Frauscher et al. The severity range of restless legs syndrome (RLS) and augmentation in a prospective patient cohort: Association with ferritin levels. Patients with augmentation had significantly lower ferritin levels than patients without augmentation (55.8 ...
by badnights
Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:10 am
Forum: Prescription Medications
Topic: How many mg of Pramipexole do you take daily
Replies: 9
Views: 1724

Re: How many mg of Pramipexole do you take daily

This is an old thread now but I do hope pamndorr you are off the pramipxole for GOOD, it gave you Impulse Control Disorder and no one should be on that drug when it does that to them. No one. There are MANY alternatives.
by badnights
Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:58 am
Forum: Prescription Medications
Topic: Starting the Search...again
Replies: 36
Views: 7312

Re: Starting the Search...again

Well, life could be worse, couldn't it? I might be trying trazadone myself in a couple months, my doc mentioned it as a possibility (and I could use a mood lift). But I tried it once before and it made the WED worse. I didn't give it much of a chance, and I was on drugs from hell at the time, so may...
by badnights
Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:49 am
Forum: Just Joined?
Topic: In Through the Out Door
Replies: 300
Views: 49667

Re: In Through the Out Door

Good for you! Obviously it's complicated! I'm sorry I told you to tell him everything, because it made it long-winded, Ann's idea was so much better, but it's all irrelevant now, because you're going to see him! I know you can work through to a solution with him, and maybe he can even help with the ...
by badnights
Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:44 am
Forum: Just Joined?
Topic: Can volatile chemicals cause RLS?
Replies: 1
Views: 514

Can volatile chemicals cause RLS?

hi and welcome. I split your post off into a thread of its own, but I messed up the subject line, sorry! Lots of us have taken Requip and are quite happy with it. I had problems with it, I augmented, which means the RLS got worse after getting better for a while (what happened is, the symptoms start...