Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Tuesday, March 5 Welcome to sophiegirl4657, who has had RLS for over 25 years and now is 65 and her RLS is getting worse. She is trying to find out everything she can about medications and natural resources. Everyday she has to think ahead of what she will be doing for the day, so she doesn't have a...

Tuesday, March 5 Welcome to dm23, who has had RLS for almost 50 years and have been using the RLS newsletter and webinars for a few years but would also like to start using the discussion board to exchange directly with other RLS people. Now you are on the board, so please post a note to introduce y...

Tuesday, March 5 Welcome to Pamela, who has suffered from RLS since her early twenties. She is always searching for information and guidance on how to manage my RLS and stay sane. Take a look around, especially at the Published Research thread in the General Topics forum for loads of information. An...

Tuesday, March 5 Welcome to Gdzgo4, whose RLS, which is moderate to severe, can be embarrassing when in public her legs start hopping. Even standing, sometimes one leg will paw the ground like a horse. When she cannot sit or lie down, whether for an afternoon nap or at 3 AM and she is exhausted, som...

My neurologist was surprised that the MM was working for the RLS. He was familiar with it's effect for insomnia but not for RLS. He was quite inquisitive about dosing, price, obtaining permits, etc so I hope that i've provided him with some education that might be helpful to some of his other patie...

The first step is to immediately go to the airlines website with your reservation number and reserve an aisle seat. That gives you the option of getting up and walking around during the flight without bothering anyone and also allows you to stretch your legs by putting them in the aisle while you ar...

Tuesday, March 5 Welcome to utzlee, who is going on 12 years of RLS. This condition has often robbed utzlee of the simple pleasure of relaxation. Fortunately, the symptoms are not always present but the disease does appear to be progressing. Unfortunately you are correct that RLS often is a progress...

I can't help you with this one. I never did have much hair on my legs and with age, it is almost all gone now. Seems like the only place I can grow hair now is my beard, which will very quickly approaching snow white.

Tuesday, March 5 Welcome to mollym, who has had RLS for what seems like her entire life. She is currently trying to switch medications and it’s not going well. Her nights are miserable. RLS feels like a very lonely condition. Please post a note telling us about those medications and your doses so th...

Tuesday, March 5

Welcome to

DRae, who was awake because of RLS and is looking for ideas and help for a better quality of life.

Please post a note telling us what you are currently doing to manage your RLS so that we can offer you some suggestions to improve both your sleep and quality of life.

Monday, March 4

Welcome to

Broncoman96, who is trying to learn more about RLSs in order to improve his sleep and quality of life. He has some questions he'd like to ask others.

Post a note asking as many questions as you like. Hopefully we have the information that you seek.

My rls symptoms started at around age 34 however I'm unaware of anyone within my parents/grandparents, close family who also has this disease. Betty, I wouldn't have remembered having RLS prior to age 40 if it hadn't been for many very uncomfortable airplane flights starting in my late 20's. At the...

Very interesting, indeed. Given the synergism found between cannabis and opioids for pain relief, I wonder if this might also be part of the reason why some find cannabis alone isn't sufficient, while many of us on opioid therapy gravitate toward also using cannabis products when they are legally av...

Very interesting article, even though it is rather old (2000). So, I wonder what Dr Allen would have to say today about this. Some of the current articles seem to be moving in the direction of a single cause for RLS and PLMD with low brain iron. But this may relate more to the cause of the low iron ...

Monday, March 4 Welcome to DKDUTTA3M, who has been suffering a lot ....started taking medicine...augmentation of medicine occured during last 4 months. Please post a note telling us about the medication you have been taking and the dose. And take a look at the information in our Augmentation forum t...