Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Excellent! It is SOOOO nice that you like him. It's tough to have a MIL or FIL that dislikes you and it is so hard to see your child marry someone that you don't think is the best choice. I bet you will now be a very busy mom helping her prepare (unless they are doing some non-traditional). I hope y...

Hi ladies, Ceasaree, I posted a response to you somewhere else. Pat, welcome to the board; how nice to offer to moderate! I'll look forward to getting to know you on the board. Pat, sounds like you need to switch to something else, at least during the day. It can't be good to have you like that. I a...

Oh, since you said you didn't mean to post the other post in the other section, I deleted it for you.

Ann

Welcome, Ceasaree, Glad you found us, and hope that something here will help. All that pain must be really difficult. I haven't heard of Requip causing that, but that doesn't mean it isn't the Requip! Maybe someone else will say, "Yep! Happened to me." These medication do strange things, no question...

The only thing that could be better would be for Carmella on the Sopranos to get RLS!!! That would really be great. I bet a lot of people would know about it then. Go HBO!!!

Hey, Mike! How's things? Hope the RLS is ignoring you lately.

Ann

Jeanie, as Hazel said, the nerve conduction is simply to determine if you have neuropathy. Neuropathy is one cause of secondary RLS. Jeanie, this is really important. You CAN have celiac disease and test negative through bloodwork. The bloodwork test is not perfect. First of all, you MUST be eating ...

Jeannie, what a difficult winter it has been for you. I can only imagine how frustrated you are. You are still sick and people aren't communicating well with you. Can anyone go with you to your doctor's appointments? When we are sick and don't feel well, we don't always remember to ask enough questi...

From what I read, adding the emoticons will be lots easier than getting the chat room working. The RLSF knows it's important, and Hazel recently researched some alternative methods, but we haven't heard anything yet from the foundation.

Ann

This is an interesting, and provocative, article. It makes some very interesting points. I immediately thought of a discussion we had months ago about how much sleep we need. The doctor interviewed for this article suggests that we don't need as much as some people say; that they reason they say we ...

I am so sorry, Lyn. Wow, your post must have triggered all the sadness I have about how sucky this disease is, as I am now crying for you. While probably true of any chronic illness, it really is hard to make relationships work when you have severe RLS. Maybe it's harder in some ways because people ...

Does anyone else wish that we had some more emoticons? I won't bother asking the Foundation to load some others if no one else cares. I often notice that we don't have anything for hugs or frustration and some other emotions that we often share. There are some good examples here: m Also, are many pe...

I wish I had some words that meant something or could help in some way. Sometimes the best words are no word, though. So, the best I can do it to take these words and pretend they are a long, close hug.

Ann

Hi Susan,

I thought your post might get lost in here, so started an new thread to you in this section.

Ann

Hi Susan, I thought your post was important and didn't want it to get buried in the other post about drug side effects. You originally wrote: "I have been taking Mirapex for over a year now. It seems to be the only drug that calms my legs down and keeps them calm overnight. But, I have been developi...

OK, how thin did he get??? If it's curable by a few days of tablets, maybe we could make millions on this. First, make a pill that infects people with this fungus that makes them hate food. When they get to the weight they want, we give them the cure! I guarantee we'd have lots of brisk business. If...