To enhance the quality of life for individuals with RLS/WED and their families.
http://bb.rls.org/
It's astonishing how different some of us are in our reactions to drugs.debbluebird wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:06 pmOxy never worked for me if I took it more than a couple of days. My RLS would be worse. It was 5 mg
I wonder if the gabapentin I'm taking counters the alerting thing. I mean I could, and sometimes do go to sleep at 1:00 am. It's mostly I like doing things like painting or watching Netflix (with Beezie on my lap) til the wee hours of the morning. Have you tried gabapentin?ViewsAskew wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:21 pmNot all of us have the alerting thing. And it does seem worse with the longer acting/half-life opioids.Brynmr wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:57 pmThat's terrible if you have to get up and go to work in the morning. I don't mind it because I'm retired and don't have to get up at any given time. Of course my oxy dose is low (5mg) so in 3 hours I'm sleeping. Guess I'm fortunate in that.ViewsAskew wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:29 pm
I have to take methadone approximately 7-8 hours before I want to be asleep (and I can STILL fight sleep even then). I usually take it by 5 PM to have any hope of getting to sleep by 12 to 1 AM. I took it at 6 PM last night and had to force myself to get in bed at 1:30 - and didn't go to sleep until after 2 AM.
My WED/RLS doc - who sees hundreds of us - even told me to take it later. I did it just so I could show him how horrible it was. After a week he told me to do what I usually do. LOL.
It did for me. But, it doesn't do well with the small bit of pramipexole I take. It makes for very weird and fractured sleep.Brynmr wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 4:18 amI wonder if the gabapentin I'm taking counters the alerting thing. I mean I could, and sometimes do go to sleep at 1:00 am. It's mostly I like doing things like painting or watching Netflix (with Beezie on my lap) til the wee hours of the morning. Have you tried gabapentin?ViewsAskew wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:21 pmNot all of us have the alerting thing. And it does seem worse with the longer acting/half-life opioids.