POSSIBLE MIRACLE CURE FOR RLS?
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:55 pm
Well let me start by saying, I'm sure my story will be very familiar to most on here..I'm a retired "SENIOR CHIEF" USN (2006) Diagnosed with RLS/PLMD in 2001 while still on active duty. I was started on Sinemet which lasted about (1) week, really bad side effects, switched to Requip 0.25 mg daily, worked great for years with gradual increases of dosage, maxing out to 4 mg around 2015. The maximum recommended dosage I've been told is 4-MG daily for RLS and 4-MG for me was becoming in-effective. Over several years my dosage eventually increased up to 7 MG daily, after several years it was lowered back down to the 4 MG dosage level. The 4 MG wasn't working, by now my RLS seemed worse when taking the Requip but I couldn't go to sleep without taking it. There is no relaxing, sitting for very long, No Napping, as soon as my eyes close and I try to relax that creepy, crawly, electrical tingly feeling starts and I either have to move or loose my mind, its actual torture.
July 2023 Requip not working switched to Pramopexole 1 MG 2 XDAY, ( 1 MG Pramopexole = 6MG Requip), so essentially I went from 4 MG of Requip daily to 12 MG of Requip daily.
December 28 @ 0530 awoke exhibiting major symptoms of suffocation, claustrophobia, very high anxiety, panic attacks, difficulty breathing and lots of other prior common sides effects of dopamine antagonist leading up to these major dangerous effects, stopped NO Pramopexole since.
December 31 back on 4 MG Requip (some I had accumulated) this is the only thing that will stop the creepy crawly, electrical tingling feeling to try and go to sleep. The symptoms I'm experiencing now seem to match-up with "DAWS" and Dopamine Antagonist Augmentation all wrapped into one category..nightmare by means of torture. The only other thing I've found to reduce the symptoms is smoking marijuana and thats hard to regulate the dosage verses effects but if it stops the bugs for a couple hours I'm smoking.
Well to sum it all up..I'm on 4 MG Requip around 8:00 PM sleepy, able to shift brain to neutral without creepy crawly feeling allowing 3-4 hours fragmented sleep each day, kind-a seems like the movie group hog day. The marijuana helps but I'm sure wishing it came in pill form so I wouldn't have to smoke it, at least until I can figure something out. During all my sleepless nights my web surfing has found an individual located in Fort Collins, Colorado that claims they can Reverse Restless Leg Syndrome, Goggle the book entitled " A Perfect Nights Sleep" by Dr. James Anderson, please let me know what your thoughts are because I'm wondering could the answer be all that simple?
July 2023 Requip not working switched to Pramopexole 1 MG 2 XDAY, ( 1 MG Pramopexole = 6MG Requip), so essentially I went from 4 MG of Requip daily to 12 MG of Requip daily.
December 28 @ 0530 awoke exhibiting major symptoms of suffocation, claustrophobia, very high anxiety, panic attacks, difficulty breathing and lots of other prior common sides effects of dopamine antagonist leading up to these major dangerous effects, stopped NO Pramopexole since.
December 31 back on 4 MG Requip (some I had accumulated) this is the only thing that will stop the creepy crawly, electrical tingling feeling to try and go to sleep. The symptoms I'm experiencing now seem to match-up with "DAWS" and Dopamine Antagonist Augmentation all wrapped into one category..nightmare by means of torture. The only other thing I've found to reduce the symptoms is smoking marijuana and thats hard to regulate the dosage verses effects but if it stops the bugs for a couple hours I'm smoking.
Well to sum it all up..I'm on 4 MG Requip around 8:00 PM sleepy, able to shift brain to neutral without creepy crawly feeling allowing 3-4 hours fragmented sleep each day, kind-a seems like the movie group hog day. The marijuana helps but I'm sure wishing it came in pill form so I wouldn't have to smoke it, at least until I can figure something out. During all my sleepless nights my web surfing has found an individual located in Fort Collins, Colorado that claims they can Reverse Restless Leg Syndrome, Goggle the book entitled " A Perfect Nights Sleep" by Dr. James Anderson, please let me know what your thoughts are because I'm wondering could the answer be all that simple?