Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Thanks Susan, yes I am well on the mend. wore make-up today for the first time in 11 days. And with very fair skin and blonde eyelashes etc. I really do need make-up. Ann, funny you should say that about the shoes you wore as a child. Cos I love shoes. And as a child we didn't have much spare cash. ...

Hey Zach, sorry you were injured also. Don't forget, my stitches are out and all is healing. Your foot injury is something else, I reckon cuts and breaks heal better that strains etc. which can seem to go on forever. Yeah, good supporting shoes are important. Shoe size - 10 and a half wide...... hmm...

You are both so right. Hubby of course played the joker, with friends. 'She'll do what she's told next time!!!' To which my response is, it only looks like he won !! Trust me, I really did do it to myself. But you could see strangers looking, and in stores where people would normally say about an in...

I really gotta learn to lift my feet!!! Ten days ago I was carrying an armful of dripping hand washing from the kitchen to the washing line, moving very quickly so as not to soak the kitchen floor. I tripped over the bottom of the door frame, losing my footing, tried to right myself as I stumbled. M...

Great to hear from you.

Hi Dale

Couldn't say for sure, but I am also pretty much of a perfectionist and can get wound up about things not done, to be done, get them off the 'list' so I can relax.... except there's always something else. !!

I also took Bryan3 at face value. I am also told often that I am naive. And I must be naive... cos a couple of years ago I ordered and received rls oil which was specifically for rls, used it faithfully, to no avail. Actually I ordered it several times to give it a fair chance. Might as well have th...

Sleuth, I am so sorry for how you are feeling. Being here in the UK, I don't know how things work over in the US, but please find someone to talk to. Perhaps there is the equivalent of what we call The Samaratins over here. A 24 hour line where you can talk to someone for as long as you want, and th...

Feet/lower legs in a bucket of cold water is only a big 'shock' for about the first 10 seconds. After that, all it is, is cold. It certainly helped me when I was desperate, and without meds.

Dale, please listen to Zach.
He always talks good sense

Good luck.

Yes, before I took meds for my symptoms, I used to sit with my feet/lower legs in a bucket of icy cold water for about 20 minutes, and splash the water up my legs. This helped for a while, to try to get to sleep.

Its great to hear good news.
Long may it last.

Hi Racer, and welcome Sorry that you may have this awful rls, certainly something guided you to us on this site. If you read your way through the site, and still feel the symtoms are relevant then I reckon it would help if you read the Mayo clinic algorithm, and maybe take it on a visit to the doc. ...

I also get weary explaining myself. Tho thankfully my friends all just accept me and my 'legs', but it gets more and more that I hate to use the term rls. It sounds trivial and as if it is no more than feeling fidgety for a few minutes. Never mind starting to explain... well actually... there's also...

rls girl, those are two funny stories, and funny in retrospect. And yet..... , maybe not so funny really.... Its sad that you were so exhausted that this could happen to you. - twice. How did you feel when you were finally awakened in the car park. And how did your family feel. Yes, its funny , but ...