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- Sat May 06, 2006 7:08 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Pharma Sticky
- Replies: 39
- Views: 67919
Drugs to avoid
Many drugs are known to worsen RLS. Here is a general overview. For more specific info including names of specific drugs, please go to the links provided in this post. You can read several pages of posts regarding what other have found about worsening their RLS. Antidepressants can worsen RLS, but i...
- Sat May 06, 2006 7:07 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Pharma Sticky
- Replies: 39
- Views: 67919
Pharma Sticky
This is the pharma sticky. This will contain information and links regarding drugs, side effects, etc.
- Fri May 05, 2006 5:30 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Just have to get this out somehow
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8949
Em, ditto what Jan said. You mentioned that the Klonopin helps your legs, I think. You know, it really doesn't make sense that it would help your legs and not your face if it's the same thing. I guess it could be that much worse - but the timing doesn't really make sense, either. . . Seriously - wri...
- Fri May 05, 2006 5:22 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Blood Test Results
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1675
I'm no doc and don't know the ranges from your lab - but seems you gotta an awful lot of LOWs written on there! I can't imagine this didn't flag anything from your doctor!!! The ferritin alone could be causing the RLS. As Jenny said - she got low and had to get transfusions - but now her RLS is gone...
- Thu May 04, 2006 5:57 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Just have to get this out somehow
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8949
I can't answer that; I didn't have RLS much at all when I started on it - I had severe PLMD (kicking all night). So, I never knew if it worked in the beginning. Unfortunately, a low dose of the drug caused augmentation of my very mild RLS and I ended up with daily RLS within two weeks. The doctor to...
- Thu May 04, 2006 5:44 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Mirapex-how high a dose is safe?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3006
Guest, If at any time you feel that the RLS is getting worse and it is related to the medicine you are taking, please, please, please find a new doctor and get off of it. I won't bore you with the details and my intent is not to scare you, but just to give you some more information that may come in ...
- Thu May 04, 2006 5:32 am
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: New face
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1231
bbrock, you've gotten some good advice; I'll add my two cents. I'd have never made it through college taking 8 Am classes! My friends thought I was crazy, but just adjusting my schedule to the RLS helped A LOT. What do you do now? Do you know much about things you can do? If you don't check out this...
- Wed May 03, 2006 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Just have to get this out somehow
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8949
If it feels like it's worse, I wouldn't take more than a few doses. Again, I'm not a doctor, but I can't recall anyone saying their RLS got worse with a DA - maybe the side effects made it impossible to take it, or it didn't help at a low dose, but not worse. Em, hang in there. I feel so badly for y...
- Wed May 03, 2006 4:24 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Ferritin Reminder
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1222
Ferritin Reminder
Someone PMed me to ask about ferritin levels. I wanted to post online so in case anyone else had the same question, they would also get an answer. I hope that my private poster isn't offended . I won't use names or log in names so as to keep it private. Researchers have found that ferritin needs to ...
- Wed May 03, 2006 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Just have to get this out somehow
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8949
Welll. . .it seems to me that Requip takes longer to be effective than Mirapex. That's only because you have to take 3 times more of Requip than Mirapex for the same results. Some people see results the first night with either of them, but since you start low and increase it over time, it can take a...
- Wed May 03, 2006 6:22 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: pregnant and RLS, help!!! needed!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2335
You have two things that might help you. First, the algorithm. It's from the Mayo clinic and it says that opioids can be used in the treatment of RLS if the other drugs cannot be used or tolerated. Second, write to Dr Buchfurer at www.rlshelp.org - he is one of the RLS Foundation board members and a...
- Wed May 03, 2006 1:03 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Just have to get this out somehow
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8949
- Tue May 02, 2006 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Just have to get this out somehow
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8949
It is a tough situation. RLS still could be it, and this could just be how it's manifested in your body. I would think that dopamine agonists might give you an answer. As they are "supposed" to help everyone with RLS (though some people can't take them because of side effects), if you have RLS, they...
- Tue May 02, 2006 9:22 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: The RLS plague
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6283
- Tue May 02, 2006 3:53 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: increased muscle tone- looks like i've been working out!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1042