Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

I have severe WED and when I stay on my diet (no grain, excitoxins, processed foods, caffeine, or sugar) I can get 5-6 hours a night without any meds. Usually, I get off the beaten track and eat someone that has excitoxins (like mayonnaise on closlaw and some juice with an excitoxin) or a little decaffinated coffee in the morning and my sleep tanks to somewhere between 2-3.5 hours a night. Sometimes, for me, it's worth a bad night cuz I'm so tired of eating the same sh**! My supplements are calcium, multi vitamin, Vitamin B (although I have taken out the vitamin b and gotten better sleep before, but since I get tired a lot I figure it's worth the energy and better than caffiene) , enzymes for digestion, adrenal complex as needed (natural sleeper) and iron 2 X per day. I also found that iodine helped a lot, but I've backed off on that a bit.

I am getting treatments for my back as well as anxiety with the musgutova method and I noticed that it helped out the WED since I'm able to eat a little bit more w/o getting 0 hours a night. Not much but every little bit helps!

I guess my question is what can you eat? It is nice that you can control WED with diet though.

The only food type of ingredient that I found that helps my WED is to stay away from aspartame, besides that nothing seems to help except to be loaded up with medications. Medications tend to make me tired, dizzy, and groggy.

Sorry it's taken so late to respond. I can eat protein, meat, beans, nuts etc, all dairy, all fruits and vegetables. It's the grain, caffeine, excitoxins, or sugar that I can't eat. Most of the time it works good, but if I'm under a lot of stress I still get somewhere between 1.5-3 hours a night. I don't mind a few nights of that, but it keeps up I turn to the meds. But I try to do them part time even then.