Related Diseases
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:43 pm
The website www.morehead.org has a very good and involved description of RLS and its related diseases and various treatments. It should help a lot of folks who have this MOST annoying problem. The exact address is:
http://www.morehead.org/wellconnected/000095.htm
As for me, I continue to believe I have a neurological component, and I am going to see a neurologist this Tuesday. I have posted elsewhere on this site, which others here have urged me to see one. I had read on here, too, that Neurontin has helped some folks with RLS, which makes sense if some have neuropathy also.
I am off ALL drugs I was taking for the last few years, which had included Zoloft, beta blockers, and I don't know what else. I only take a low-dose tranquilizer now, which I've taken for more than five years. When I dropped all my medicines, I began to feel very well emotionally, but my legs continued to hurt like mad. My family doctor was unhappy I had stopped my Zoloft. But she did prescribe some narcotic pain meds, which have rotten side effects, but do stop the pain just before I pass out.
Additionally, I found out very recently I have hypothyroidism. My thyroid readings have been up and down for years. When I visited the endocrinologist, he explained the symptoms I have in my legs are NOT likely from hypothyroidism. He said my leg symptoms sounded different and wants a report from my neurologist. I am now taking a terrible thyroid-replacement drug, which has ruined my general health and I have really gone round the bend mentally. Interesting, huh? I placed a call back to his office.
I did take statin drugs for a while, which was given to me for high lipids last year, which I had high lipids even before I had hypothyroid. They upset my stomach so I stopped those. But I since found out for people who have MS, a neurological disease I thought I had for a while, that statin drugs can give relief by reducing MS inflammation. So, I started those up for a while and felt much better. But my legs continued to hurt. As for the lipids, my thyroid doc said the thyroid meds would help reduce the lipids...but of course I had high lipids before the tests showed I had hypothyroid... My plans are to drop the thyroid meds and go back on the statins.
That's the extent of my knowledge of the relationship of RLS to other diseases. I hope the neurologist this coming week tells me what is going on.
http://www.morehead.org/wellconnected/000095.htm
As for me, I continue to believe I have a neurological component, and I am going to see a neurologist this Tuesday. I have posted elsewhere on this site, which others here have urged me to see one. I had read on here, too, that Neurontin has helped some folks with RLS, which makes sense if some have neuropathy also.
I am off ALL drugs I was taking for the last few years, which had included Zoloft, beta blockers, and I don't know what else. I only take a low-dose tranquilizer now, which I've taken for more than five years. When I dropped all my medicines, I began to feel very well emotionally, but my legs continued to hurt like mad. My family doctor was unhappy I had stopped my Zoloft. But she did prescribe some narcotic pain meds, which have rotten side effects, but do stop the pain just before I pass out.
Additionally, I found out very recently I have hypothyroidism. My thyroid readings have been up and down for years. When I visited the endocrinologist, he explained the symptoms I have in my legs are NOT likely from hypothyroidism. He said my leg symptoms sounded different and wants a report from my neurologist. I am now taking a terrible thyroid-replacement drug, which has ruined my general health and I have really gone round the bend mentally. Interesting, huh? I placed a call back to his office.
I did take statin drugs for a while, which was given to me for high lipids last year, which I had high lipids even before I had hypothyroid. They upset my stomach so I stopped those. But I since found out for people who have MS, a neurological disease I thought I had for a while, that statin drugs can give relief by reducing MS inflammation. So, I started those up for a while and felt much better. But my legs continued to hurt. As for the lipids, my thyroid doc said the thyroid meds would help reduce the lipids...but of course I had high lipids before the tests showed I had hypothyroid... My plans are to drop the thyroid meds and go back on the statins.
That's the extent of my knowledge of the relationship of RLS to other diseases. I hope the neurologist this coming week tells me what is going on.