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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to Agw0006
Wednesday, April 17 Welcome to Agw0006, who has suffered from RLS most of adult life. Agw is now 62 and was recently prescribed codeine due to the severe nature of Agw's symptoms. Agw personally refer to the condition as “restless body syndrome” because Agw also has the same sensations in the torso ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Sugar and Chocolate problems
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1937
Re: Sugar and Chocolate problems
Not all chocolates are equal. Chocolate chemistry is extremely complicated. Even the taste of a cheap chocolate versus quality chocolate of the same type (milk, semisweet, dark, etc) will vary. The reason has to do with the processing and how many of the flavors make it into the product that you con...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: Augmentation
- Topic: Reversing Restless Leg Syndrome
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10366
Re: Reversing Restless Leg Syndrome
Congratulations for making it to Day 4 of no Requip. We have had other members of the board who grew weak at this point and took a pill just to get some relief. Glad to hear that your will is still standing strong. If you follow the normal progression, the fact that you were able to get some sleep a...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:10 am
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to Renalyn
Friday, April 12 Welcome to Renalyn, whose anxiety level has gotten higher. So she is trying to find the right treatment. You can find all the recommended treatments for RLS in the document that the link in my signature points to. As for anxiety, gabapentin and Lyrica are often also used to treat th...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to Frostnow
Friday, April 12 Welcome to Frostnow, who has leg cramps that are excruciating and thinks that they must be related to RLS. Cramping is not necessarily related to RLS although they do occur. To qualify as RLS, you must meet all five of the criteria described in the following link: https://gpcpd.heiw...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Head roll
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2594
Re: Head roll
Tim, none of your posts have been removed (with the exception of the duplicate that you posted today). We do not remove posts for being offensive and if we did, you would receive a private message telling you what you did wrong so that you could revise your message. A problem that some encounter is ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: SPINAL STIMULATOR STOPS RLS?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2057
Re: SPINAL STIMULATOR STOPS RLS?
Write a private note to Debbluebird, I am fairly sure that she has the experience that you are looking for.Has anyone on here with RLS/WED tried the Implantable Spinal Stimulator for RLS?
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:06 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Buprenorphine, the good, bad and ugly
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2119
Re: Buprenorphine, the good, bad and ugly
TIm, the numbers generally reported for RLS range from 5 to 15 percent of the population. The reason for such a wide range is that RLS occurs more frequently in those of northern European ancestry and "rarely" in Africa, so there is a question of what "population" you are referencing against. There ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to dmalone8
Monday, April 8 Welcome to dmalone8, whose RLS began in the mid 30s. dmalone is now 52 and has been using medication to help control RLS for about 7 years but is finding that RLS and the the loss of sleep it causes is have a bigger effect on life with age. Unfortunately, RLS tends to get worse with ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to Jules
Saturday, April 6 Welcome to Jules, whose RLS has affected sleep and increased migraines/vertigo which causes anxiety. Is your doctor treating your RLS and has (s)he done blood tests to check your ferritin levels? You might find that taking gabapentin or Lyrica would help with your sleep and possibl...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to vegascurley
Saturday, April 6 Welcome to vegascurley, who needs help...vegas was on Neupro for about 10 years till the insurance company wont pay for the prescription. vegas hasn't been able to find anything that will help. If you check the document that the link in my signature points to, you will find all of ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Ferritin levels and IV iron
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10728
Re: Ferritin levels and IV iron
Here is a publication that describes the types of iron used for infusions. Venofer is iron sucrose. Dr Earley at Johns Hopkins has done the largest part of the evaluation of IV iron treatments for RLS and he prefers iron carboxymaltose over the simpler iron sugars like sucrose. I don't remember if i...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Where do I go from here?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2835
Re: Where do I go from here?
That sounds like great news. I hope that the 20mg oxy ER works well for you for a very long time. And also good that you don't need to mess with pain management since they often don't understand conditions like RLS that are not classical pain situations where they can try other treatments to try to ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to snowluvr
Thursday, April 4 Welcome to snowluvr, whose RLS not only does this disrupt sleep patterns it affects motivation to accomplish projects. If his wife didn't sleep so soundly, his constant getting up and returning to bed would disrupt her sleeping as well. Is your doctor currently treating your RLS? H...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: APRIL 2024 - New Members
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3084
Welcome to West_Coast
Thursday, April 4 Welcome to West_Coast, who was diagnosed and started on gabapentin 4 years ago, after reaching a point where nothing worked (massage, heat etc) and she was awake all night. Now she is chained to taking this medication every night, but even then she has regular problems with symptom...