Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Eefall.... what a terrible time. I can only say that we try to understand. Many of us have such sleep problems as yourself but likely not all of them at once or in such severity. So that you don't forget to take your medications what about setting the relevant alarm times on your phone. That's what...

I almost wish I had just stayed up the night without sleeping, it was a terrible night. My machine for sleep apnea and a zeo device I have shows I slept 3 hours and 43 minutes but I woke up so many times during sleep do to periodic limb movements that it probably took more energy out of me than if I...

I had written my doctor yesterday for Methadone scripts and told him I wasn't doing well and averaging less than 3-1/2 hours of sleep a night for the last month, this is what he wrote me today: "I can leave rx for you in [the facility]. We have exhausted all treatment options for RLS, would con...

The idea was founded on good intentions. Instead of having a bunch of starving artists who give up and do something else for a living (like I did) they wanted to give artists the opportunity to do art as they wanted to do it and pay them for doing it so that they would not have to worry about their ...

I emailed for my Methadone script tonight, it's like I don't have an appointment with the doc until the middle of March and I'm running out. Why doesn't he take care of this so I don't have to worry about it? I hate this situation with having to go see the doctor for scheduled controlled substances ...

Take care of yourself, sounds like you are the only one who can or will at this point. I almost moved to Canada years ago because they were going to pay me to make artwork all my life, the Canadian government I guess. Sometimes I daydream about what if I had, but man, with the healthcare system so ...

Awesome sleep.

1) the drugs stop working and we keep cycling through them or trying new things. 2) the drugs have side effects and we keep trying new combinations or other drugs to make the side effects manageable. 3) the drugs don't work well for us and we keep trying new things. 4) because of the side effects, ...

There is rls/wed and then there is RLS/WED , I mean, do you really think a working doctor could have the severe type like some of us have here? I am fighting everyday to continue to work, and not very well at that. I know in the back of my mind that it is a losing battle (I keep missing work) but ju...

I used the dimmer swtches as well-- liked them alot because it gave me something to do with my other foot while we drove--off on of on--lol only problem was around here the salt and water in the winter corroded them something aweful--always replacing them. About the soaps I find baby shampoo works ...

Thanks for the info, I will see about getting some of the lotion. The liquid bandaid warning is too late though lol, I tried that before and it was a real bad experience as you know. Yes, it feels like "an exposed nerve" incredible how painful such a little crack can be, it is worse too b...

I was about your age when RLS became very bad for me. I went to a sleep doctor not long after that. He had me do an overnight sleep study that showed how bad my condition was and then he put me on a prescription medication that helped. In the overnight study they fix a hospital room up to look as co...

I get cracks near the fingernails that you're taking about, mostly in the winter. Very painful, like an exposed nerve. It's just dryness. What I use is a lotion called Aquaphor (Eucerin) at night and it will generally clear them up or at least stop the pain in one or two nights. Spread it on the fi...

Maybe the brains, nervous system of people who become doctors are never inflicted with WED, just a thought. I don't know why that would be, maybe because they are forced into being interns and forced to work double, triple shifts that they are so messed up with their sleep patterns that it does some...

I take methadone lol so I guess that is a narcotic, I read it is 7 times stronger than morphine. It also builds up. I also take 3 other meds to get to sleep. All I have been doing since I posted last is look at things to buy on the online (didn't buy anything) so I sat here all day doing nothing at ...