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- Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:03 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Methadone causing Sleep Apnea?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 514
Re: Methadone causing Sleep Apnea?
My suggestion is that you need to speak with your prescribing doctor ASAP. To me, your description of waking with your throat sealed up sounds more like an allergic reaction than apnea. With normal apnea and UARS, you essentially swallow your tongue. With normal sleep apnea, the nerves in your throa...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Methadone causing Sleep Apnea?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 514
Re: Methadone causing Sleep Apnea?
All opioids are Central Nervous System depressants that can cause mild sleep apnea to become a problem. Gabapentin and Lyrica are also CNS depressants, so they can cause issues too. Every time that I have an appointment with my neurologist, she asks "Are you still using your CPAP machine?". I tell h...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: February 2024 - NEW MEMBERS
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1130
Welcome to Robin66
Wednesday, February 28 Welcome to Robin66, who is newly diagnosed, is having difficulty sleeping and staying active. She is worried about the progression of the disease. Generally, the severity of RLS will get worse with age. How fast it progresses varies. However, treatment can be 95+% effective ev...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Buprenorphine, the good, bad and ugly
- Replies: 20
- Views: 478
Re: Buprenorphine, the good, bad and ugly
I have not been able to convince my neurologist to let me try buprenorphine. I was interested because it is also been shown to be effective in treating Treatment Resistant Depression, which I have. However, read what you can about the dental problems that some burprenorphine users are having. It isn...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Non-prescription Medicines, Supplements, Diet
- Topic: STUDY: Vitamin D Lessens the Severity of Restless Legs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 255
Re: STUDY: Vitamin D Lessens the Severity of Restless Legs
Vitamin D deficiency can cause a wide range of neurological problems. My neurologist regularly checks my Vitamin D and B12 levels even though she knows that I take them daily.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: Head roll
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1091
Re: Head roll
Well I just made an extremely long post and for some reason it did not show up. The system has a time limit for creating posts. I am not sure, but I think that it is around 10 minutes. Therefore, when you write an extremely long post, you can sometimes exceed the time limit. The work around is to e...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: Augmentation
- Topic: New-Asked to post about treatments
- Replies: 55
- Views: 73203
Re: New-Asked to post about treatments
I have never had pain with my RLS, but I did have issues with methadone when I first started taking it. It would keep me awake for 6 to 8 hrs. Some of us refer to that side effect as "Alerting" because you feel dead tired by are wide awake. I resolved that problem by shifting the time that I would t...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: February 2024 - NEW MEMBERS
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1130
Welcome to CalmLegsJL
Monday, February 26 Welcome to CalmLegsJL, who is looking to learn more about RLS and is interested in natural remedies. You can find quite a bit about non-prescription treatments for RLS in our forum on Non-Prescription Meds, Supplements, etc. Unfortunately, most natural treatments are not very eff...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Where do I go from here?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1025
Re: Where do I go from here?
When you ask your doctor to check your iron levels, be sure to ask to have your ferritin checked too. Ferritin is not part of the normal blood iron test and is the most important iron criteria for RLS. Further, when you get the results, don't accept a report of "Normal", be sure to the the number. T...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:05 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Where do I go from here?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1025
Re: Where do I go from here?
One of the requirements to become and RLS QCC is that they must be prepared to prescribe opioids for refractory RLS. The medications that they listed are consistent with the current recommendations, namely iron first followed by gabapentin/Horizant/Lyrica with dopamanergics after that. They probably...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Where do I go from here?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1025
Re: Where do I go from here?
In addition to the RLS management document that the link in my signature points to, you might also share this document with your doctor. It explains why opioids are required to treat "refractory" RLS, which is what we have after augmentation. https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: You feel fine and then you lie down . . . !
- Replies: 2
- Views: 310
Re: You feel fine and then you lie down . . . !
You can also try soaking your legs in very hot water when this happens. For most of us, it immediately calms your legs and the RLS doesn't return for about 20 minutes, which is usually enough to allow you to fall asleep if you go to bed immediately after drying your legs.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Just Joined?
- Topic: February 2024 - NEW MEMBERS
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1130
Welcome to dodieoncrystal
Saturday, February 24 Welcome to dodieoncrystal, whose son has had RLS since he was in his 30's and is now 59. He's been subscribed all effective medicines - They work for a few years then no more. ..even prescribed opoids - They work but cannot be forever. He has very severe pain, loses many nights...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Augmentation
- Topic: Reversing Restless Leg Syndrome
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2645
Re: Reversing Restless Leg Syndrome
Sorry, but I don't remember the key words to use to find the publications. There were only one or two, but that may be buried in our Research papers folder. It was several years back. As I remember, the publication spoke about how change occurred to the brain's structure due to dopamanergic augmenta...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Augmentation
- Topic: New-Asked to post about treatments
- Replies: 55
- Views: 73203
Re: New-Asked to post about treatments
Nan, every neurologist that I have seen, including the one who was clueless about everything, has relied upon discussion during appointments. When I first saw my current neuro, we talked about various treatment option for about an hour because I was highly augmented at the time. I proposed methadone...