Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

I think that may be a hard question to answer. RLS can be painful for some of us, but not others. I don't know how you could tell, for example, if your RLS progressed from non-painful to painful. Maybe some of the people with painful RLS could describe it and you could see if it is the same. Mine is...

What a good day, indeed. That definitely is a good thing, Jan, and I'm glad to hear it.

What play? Hah. And I thought you liked me . You never told me about any play!!! Well, that's okay, I guess I'll still play with you anyway In all seriousness, break a leg!

Ann

Shaun, a woman on the Yahoo Cyberspace board has been posting about her husband trying to switch from Mirapex to Requip. He was on 3 mg of Mirapex. He couldn't do it, either. He is going back to see his doctor soon about it. He doesn't see the doctor until the 25th, I think she said, but I'll try to...

Dumb halfwit?
Deadly harebrain?
Dreadful human?

Of course not! It's Dearest Helpmate! Doesn't everyone know that???

Ann

Aye, today is a good day because I woke up, too. I am so sorry you are still struggling with this; my thoughts are with you.

Ann

Hi Mike, I do remember! I hope all is well with you, too. Maybe we will see each other again at a future RLS event. That would be nice. I, too, love the memory foam bed. My DH appreciates it even more, I think, as my kicking and rolling and gymnastics moved the bed constanstly and awakening him. Unt...

It's a good day because for a few days I was wondering about Penguin. I was JUST coming to this section to post a "where are you" post", and here you are! I hope you have been away because you were busy, and not because of RLS and/or other health problems.

Ann

I can't recall where, but someone mentioned this somewhere, sometime, in the last year . When my RLS is active, the best postion for me is on my stomach mostly, with the problem leg outstretched completely, and the non-offending leg bent, with the knee pulled up and my body slightly turned to the si...

Recently a man on the Yahoo Cyber group posted that he's tried to donate his brain but because he was in Canada, he couldn't give it to a group in the US. Ruby, Becat, other SGL's, do you know anything about this? I have no idea of what the criteria was. I asked him to contact Dr Montplaiser, but he...

In writing another post I realize how lucky I am to have found such a good doctor. Sometimes I whine about how far away he is, but it is a small price to pay when so many of the people here have not yet found a doctor like that. I went through nine docs to find him, and I was anxious, cranky, and an...

Becat, Jan, I agree. . .to a point. But, we can bring education to people, but we can't make them learn. (Hope that twist on an old metaphor makes some sense!). I've been "educating" my MIL for 5 years. She still doesn't get it. She thinks I just don't go to be early enough and if I were LIKE HER, t...

Shaun, I wish I could send you to articles about the receptors. I know the We Move gives the same info I did, but don't think they go into detail. Anyway, it's just a theory of mine - I didn't read anywhere that it could be the problem. It just sort of makes sense that if Mirapex is working on diffe...

I don't have ADD, and hopefully you will hear from other members that do, if there are some. From the best of my memory, only one other person every wrote that she took an ADD drug (and I think it was Adderall) and it helped with RLS. She had some well-reasoned ideas about why it would work. If you ...

I was doing a search to help answer a newcomer's question, and found this, posted on a message board elsewhere: "... I think ADD's a disease the pharmaceutical companies dreamed up, like "restless leg syndrome." " This really made me feel horrible. In fact, I sort of feel like I've been punched, or ...

That was a good find, Hazel. Also, as someone else posted recently (might have been your Hazel), when possible and when not used strictly for pain, get your doctor to prescribe the "pure" ones, the Darvon instead of the Davocet, etc. so you just don't get that extra actaminophen in the first place. ...