Introduction
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:34 pm
Hi everybody,
I'm Karine,french living in Germany since 2000. I am 40 and have been officialy diagnosed with RLS January. Actually I supposed I have RLS years ago, but was not ready to take pills acting on my brain and this forever.
For 2 years I started therapy beacuse of a depression and my therapist didn't want to continue with me if I don't take antidepressants because I was in such a bad place that there was no success, no improvement, not matter what she tried or said 8and she's very good). So I had to revide my mind concerning pills acting on my brain... And this wasn't that bad, it helped a lot.
But.. to treat a depression correctly, it's also important to sleep well so I decided to go on for a treatment "against" RLS.
Today, I'm free from antidepressant since 2 months (fingers crossed I'll never need them again, still have to work on me!) and only taking Pramipexole 0,18 mg, 1 tablet a day in the evening only.
I just have RLS in the legs till now, the classsic case: after work on the sofa or in the bed, my legs start "dancing", let's call it like this, it's nicer!
The medicine helps a little, I don't have it every evening but on some evening, it's not helping at all.
In general, my boyfriend says I'm still making sport nights, which I don't notice but I'm still tired in the morning when I wake up.
So the treatment is ok but not perferct. But as everybody knows here, there's no way to get rid of the "dancing", we can just try to make the best out of it.
As you can see, I'm not a bad case, I also could live without medicine, even if the quality of life is better with it
I'm here just to read the experience of other RLS persons, see what's doable in the US (you're much better then Europe when it's about research) and would like to see what could happen with me, how the illness could develop. I'm afraid it's evoluting in my case 'cause I have tingling in the arms since some months but no need to move my arms yet.
So... that was me and my little RLS-case.
I hope it's all to understand, my Englisch is not reaaallly bad, but not reaaaallly good either
Wish you all a nice evening / day (don't know where you all are, here in Germany it's 6:30 p.m.)
KR
Karine
I'm Karine,french living in Germany since 2000. I am 40 and have been officialy diagnosed with RLS January. Actually I supposed I have RLS years ago, but was not ready to take pills acting on my brain and this forever.
For 2 years I started therapy beacuse of a depression and my therapist didn't want to continue with me if I don't take antidepressants because I was in such a bad place that there was no success, no improvement, not matter what she tried or said 8and she's very good). So I had to revide my mind concerning pills acting on my brain... And this wasn't that bad, it helped a lot.
But.. to treat a depression correctly, it's also important to sleep well so I decided to go on for a treatment "against" RLS.
Today, I'm free from antidepressant since 2 months (fingers crossed I'll never need them again, still have to work on me!) and only taking Pramipexole 0,18 mg, 1 tablet a day in the evening only.
I just have RLS in the legs till now, the classsic case: after work on the sofa or in the bed, my legs start "dancing", let's call it like this, it's nicer!
The medicine helps a little, I don't have it every evening but on some evening, it's not helping at all.
In general, my boyfriend says I'm still making sport nights, which I don't notice but I'm still tired in the morning when I wake up.
So the treatment is ok but not perferct. But as everybody knows here, there's no way to get rid of the "dancing", we can just try to make the best out of it.
As you can see, I'm not a bad case, I also could live without medicine, even if the quality of life is better with it
I'm here just to read the experience of other RLS persons, see what's doable in the US (you're much better then Europe when it's about research) and would like to see what could happen with me, how the illness could develop. I'm afraid it's evoluting in my case 'cause I have tingling in the arms since some months but no need to move my arms yet.
So... that was me and my little RLS-case.
I hope it's all to understand, my Englisch is not reaaallly bad, but not reaaaallly good either
Wish you all a nice evening / day (don't know where you all are, here in Germany it's 6:30 p.m.)
KR
Karine