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- Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:44 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: I feel hopeless
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2087
Oh, that's awful, Linda. Doctors can be such jerks. But there are always other doctors. Shoot, I figure if I have to fly to Southern California to visit Dr. B to get the treatment I need, then that's what I'll do. When doctors forget that it's there job to take care of us, and not the other way arou...
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:39 am
- Forum: Everything Else...just no RLS!
- Topic: Stressed and distressed
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7536
Stressed and distressed
We have really been having a time with my 16 year old daughter. She's brilliant, in college and getting a 4.0, but is so depressed and unmotivated. And she keeps making up learning disabilities as excuses for not doing chores or learning to drive, or remembering to take her meds. Like we'll buy that...
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:25 am
- Forum: Everything Else...just no RLS!
- Topic: going for a second opinion
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8297
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:16 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: SEVERE LEG PUNCHING
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3741
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:08 am
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: Does stress effect your rls symtoms?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6823
Oh, I can certainly agree to the relaxation part. I completely gave up a several year mediation practice for a long while. I also was unable to get acupuncture because the meditative relaxed state made my RLS go nuts immediately. 45 minutes with needles in your legs as you try desperately to keep t...
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:00 am
- Forum: Special Populations: Pediatric, Pregnancy, Secondary, etc.
- Topic: Requip withdrawl experiences- sleeplesness
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19272
Thanks for your thoughts. My post was more to get input on the withdrawl experiences of Requip. I've done many a search and have not pulled up too much information on experiences. I'm so glad I stopped, even with the bad week of comming off of it. Maybe someone will read this post and decide not to...
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:21 am
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: clonazepam (generic klonipon)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5736
Hi Amy, There are quite a few people who take klonazepam on this board. Hopefully they'll answer. I took diazepam for 10 years for chronic vertigo from inner ear damage. It's in the same class of drugs, so it probably has similar effects. I had to take it 3 times a day, every day. It was between tha...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:16 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: Appearances
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3854
THE HAIR IN THE EARS FAIRY??? You are so hilarious. Thank goodness that on hasn't visited me yet. But then again, I can't see in my ears... I sell cosmetics as a stay-at-home-mom job. I have quite an arsenal. Some days I get out of bed, look in the mirror, and the mirror threatens me that it will sh...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:55 am
- Forum: Special Populations: Pediatric, Pregnancy, Secondary, etc.
- Topic: Requip withdrawl experiences- sleeplesness
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19272
Melatonin used to work well for me. My insomnia is way too wicked these days for it to work, though. Hopefully in the future it will work again. I take a divided dose of 4mg. Lunesta. I take a 2mg tablet, and then about an hour later, another 2 mg. tablet. That works IF the RLS is under control. If ...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:43 am
- Forum: General Topics: RLS
- Topic: The pain thing...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1346
The pain thing...
I'm wondering if anyone has a clue as to why some of us experience so much pain with RLS? Mine has been particularly severe since augmenting on Requip. To me it seems like the same sensations, but much more intense, making me perceive them as pain. The sensations/pain are in the same places in my bo...
- Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:22 am
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: Does stress effect your rls symtoms?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6823
I can't say I've noticed a correlation between my RLS and stress. I've noticed that it has been much worse when on certain antidepressants, particularly Lexapro. One thing I do know is that my RLS causes me stress. The other weird thing is that relaxation exercises make it worse, as do muscle relaxa...
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:10 pm
- Forum: Physical Treatments
- Topic: Supplements
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1541
Brandy, have you had your ferritin level checked? That's one of the first things doctors should check when people complain of RLS, but sadly, they don't seem to. Ever since my gastric bypass, almost 3 years ago, I have tended to get anemic. I went through multiple iron injections at one point. But I...
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:47 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Panic attacks and my psychiatris: not working! PLEASE Help!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9226
I've read the benzo.org website, and I too was concerned about possibly going thrugh hell trying to discontinue the medication. But then it occurred to me that if the med was apparently still working to control three medical problems which previously interfered with my quality of life much more tha...
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:54 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Augmenting already! This is pure He!!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5767
- Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:50 pm
- Forum: Prescription Medications
- Topic: Augmenting already! This is pure He!!
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5767
Susan- One hydrocodone can take all of your augmentation away? Ann, how is this possible? I mean, how can severe augmentation respond so well to a medium potency opioid and I am taking 8 mg doses of Dilaudid with only partial relief of leg symptoms? Susan, I say if hydrocodone works so well for you...