Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

I have talked to my doctor about how the gabapentin made the RLS worse after I took it ie the RLS was never where it was before I took it as I used to be able to get at least 4 hours a night no matter what stress I was dealing with and I could eat a variety of foods (unlike now.) He thinks the gabap...

He is seeing a connection (at least with his patients) between yeast and candida AND WED. Also, I don't know when the time of the yeast overload was, according to him I've had it for many, many years, maybe since I was a baby.

Found out that I had thrush ie yeast when I was a baby...go figure!

I need to talk to him more about this because he said it so quickly and there are things I don't understand about it. But according to him (and this is just on my case with WED) the yeast goes way, way back--and started with a digestive issue due to stress. And I have been off sugar, and any thing y...

Beth, Didn't know about gabapentin being an anti=convulsant.....WOW! Anyway, I am doing better with my sleep. I think some of the meds were okay and helped to a point, but it's those damn parkinson's drugs AND the gabapentin that made it much worse, at least for me. Anyway, looks like getting down t...

It didn't help my WED, but it can be helpful for other things.

The drugs that made it worse were the parkinson's drugs like Gabapentin, and ledopa. I know for a fact that this made my condition worse because right afer I got off BOTH of them (and tapered off slowly) my sleep was cut in half (2 hours a night) and it's taken a year to try and get it back to where...

No it's not enough, but my hope is that being clean ie eating well and or me no medication that I can heal from the drugs that made it worse in the first place. And it IS getting better and unlike last year NOT worse right after the meds!!!!! If I can get back to where I was over a year ago, I will ...

Have been keeping a sleep diary and I can see that the sleep has been improving little by little. Was initially getting 3 hours a night, now it's no less than 4 hours a night, sometimes it averages 5 hours a night. For me, the gabapentin and other parkinson's drugs made my condition much worse. Was ...

WED is very complicated. My understanding is that it depends if it's primary or secondary. If WED is the secondary cause, there could be things that are triggering the primary cause of the WED symptoms. Besides the obvious caffiene, antihistamines (and for me sugar) I know there is no clear cut diet...

I agree it is pretty useless, particularly for RLS. Would much rather do hatha yoga and some type of stretching and/or strengh building. From what I remember of kundalini, it's all breath stuff--all of which are useless for me when struggling with the RLS.

What's really weird is that I have seen a remarkable improvement with the RLS symptoms, but the insomnia that accompanies it, has gotten a lot worse. It's like if I don't get to sleep by 3 am, I will be up all night. So if I go to bed at 11 and get to sleep at 11:30 and wake up at 2:30 due to rls sy...

WOW this guy sounds AWESOME!!!!

It's helped a little bit, but I'm still sleeping poorly. Also being treated for adrenal exhaustion.

Sleep was not as good this week: 4 hours per night waking 1 time in the middle of the night-- I was hopeful that this diet would help my overall health and I had figured the sleep would go back and forth IF the health was improving, but CRAP!!! Time will tell if this is true or not.