newspaper article on rls
newspaper article on rls
Dont' know if it works but a Dr. Got suggests putting a bar of soap under your fitted sheet, near your legs at night. It can be a used or new bar of soap but cannot be Dial or Dove brand. I haven't tried it yet, I'm om Mirapex....Good Luck, rleggz
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT
Ok, I just love this,
My family has been using the soap trick for several years now.......Mom loves to read Dr. Gott. and his last article just this week was in response to his printing the soap thing.
Yes, even people with RLS are getting good results. Not Dove or Dial. These are more detergents than soap. Soap is a combination of lye or ash, and fat. That's most what soap is made of. I do not know why it works but I'm here to say it does.
I have a small storage of hotel size bars of soap.
3 in my bed, at the neck, thigh, and feet. Unwrapped and the thinner the better. Note, not so thin it breaks easily. They are under the bottom sheet.
It's helped many people in my family with RLS, old aches and pains...and of course I've played around with it to see what it helps. I have to experiment with everything.
I have a smaller more square in shapre thin bar that I keep for my monthly period.......I know crazy, but I place it in my pants about belly button area. Not one cramp in the pelvic area at all. Swear it. My legs will still hurt, but the keep me down on a heating pad cramps do not show up. I have also used this smaller bar when I strained my knee before Thanksgiving. I was having company and cooking and did not have time to baby it.........so I took an ace bandage and place the bar of soap where it hurt and wrapped it up. No pain, gone in a day.
It is the funniest thing I've ever seen, but it does work.
My family has been using the soap trick for several years now.......Mom loves to read Dr. Gott. and his last article just this week was in response to his printing the soap thing.
Yes, even people with RLS are getting good results. Not Dove or Dial. These are more detergents than soap. Soap is a combination of lye or ash, and fat. That's most what soap is made of. I do not know why it works but I'm here to say it does.
I have a small storage of hotel size bars of soap.
3 in my bed, at the neck, thigh, and feet. Unwrapped and the thinner the better. Note, not so thin it breaks easily. They are under the bottom sheet.
It's helped many people in my family with RLS, old aches and pains...and of course I've played around with it to see what it helps. I have to experiment with everything.
I have a smaller more square in shapre thin bar that I keep for my monthly period.......I know crazy, but I place it in my pants about belly button area. Not one cramp in the pelvic area at all. Swear it. My legs will still hurt, but the keep me down on a heating pad cramps do not show up. I have also used this smaller bar when I strained my knee before Thanksgiving. I was having company and cooking and did not have time to baby it.........so I took an ace bandage and place the bar of soap where it hurt and wrapped it up. No pain, gone in a day.
It is the funniest thing I've ever seen, but it does work.
LOL
AAAhhhhh that's nothing, after all we try in my family, my husband thinks we're all witches and swears I'm doing spells on him after he goes to sleep.....LOL My family avoids doctors and we've got some crazy natural cures.
It's a strange one, but it works.
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Well, didn't work for me. . . and there are a whole bunch of RLSers on one of the Yahoo sites that it didn't work for either. I guess it's worth a try because it's free and easy, but I certainly wouldn't want people to get the impression that a certified movement disorder with a know cause in the brain simply requires soap in the bed. My guess is that if every reader on this board gave up their meds and tried this for a week, 99 percent would be back on their meds immediately! (And this from someone who does take homeopathic remedies, believes in accupunture, etc.).
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Hate waking to noodles
Neph!!!!!!!
Don't you hate waking to noodles?????????? Did you prefer Campbell's or Pregresso?
As always, you crack me up.
Don't you hate waking to noodles?????????? Did you prefer Campbell's or Pregresso?
As always, you crack me up.
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Anonymous
Bar of Soap
I have had RLS for years since I was a young child, I would wiggle my toes all nite.It was always a joke that I did that, no one even knew what I had. Now that I am older it has gotten worse and I would often wake up even with the meds but using the soap under the bottom sheet has helped me sleep through the nite. Make fun of it or not, if it works I am for it. Try it for a while and see.
Loisann
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Soap under the sheet
I'm a new user of this website and just posted a letter saying this technique works for me like a charm - then I found all these other comments regarding the same trick. Glad it is working for some of us! Now I'll try it on other body parts....
Has anyone ever wondered how someone even thought to try this trick? How in the world would someone say one day, "Hey let me try a bar of soap in my bed, I bet that will help my RLS!" In any event, after that lousy night of sleep the other day, if it should happen again, you better believe that I'm going to give it a try! Thanks for the tip!
Can't wait to sleep!