Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

I have bad nausea. Have had tests...they can't figure it out. Could have to do with my vertigo but they can't figure that out either. Doctor just changed my diabetes med to see if that helps. So far it hasn't. Anyway, from what I've read none of the nausea meds are good for the RLS. I'm wondering what other people might be taking to deal with nausea. I have to force myself to eat.

Sandie

Sandie,
Yes. vertigo is well known to cause nausea.
Do you take medication for your RLS/WED and could your nausea be related to taking any of these medications, ie taking meds with your food can reduce the nausea from RLS medications. So presumeably this would work for other medications also, unless you specifically should not take them with food.

What meds are you taking for the WED/RLS? As Polar Bear suggested, some of them can cause nausea. Of course, that's something you and the doctors have already considered...but if not, please do.

There are a few anti nausea drugs you can use.

Generic names: ondansetron hydrocloride is the one I used most recently. Others include scopolamine patches, granisetron hydrochloride, and dolasetron mesylate.

I'm not taking anything much for the RLS. Was on gabapentin which helped but they took me off it to see if that was the cause of my vertigo. Now I'm starting it up again. So far just 100 mg. So far the RLS is manageable without meds but I don't want to take anything that could make it worse. They don't know what is causing my nausea..or the vertigo.

Susan knows a lot about vertigo. I had it many years ago - just woke up with it. They said it was the number one reason people came to the emergency room...I don't think that's probably true, but apparently it's much more common than I thought! They said it was probably an viral infection that migrated to my ears, but I hadn't had a cold or other virus to my knowledge.

Mine went away on it's own in a couple months, though it came back a bit here and there for a year. Then it was gone. That was 8-10 years ago. Weird.

Excess stomach acid makes me feel nauseous. It goes away when I take prevacid, nexium, etc.

SandraLee863 wrote:I'm not taking anything much for the RLS. Was on gabapentin which helped but they took me off it to see if that was the cause of my vertigo. Now I'm starting it up again. So far just 100 mg. So far the RLS is manageable without meds but I don't want to take anything that could make it worse. They don't know what is causing my nausea..or the vertigo.

Gabapentin caused vertigo for me when I first started, only I referred to it as dizziness, took about 3 weeks to subside.

I suffered severe nausea from my opioid meds. reading alot about how cannabis works for nausea and for RLS, I asked my doctor and I now take Marinol. It helps for both my nausea and for my RLS. I really had to push on my doctor to prescribe it, but i've been taking it for almost 4 years now with no problems and am glad I did push for him to let me try it. I have another friend that had the same problem, but worse. It also helped him.

I took diazepam for years to manage vertigo from inner ear damage. It also helped with my RLS. In more recent years I have been able to manage my vertigo with ginger capsules, which also work well for nausea.