BORN WITH RLS/BERTHED TO LIFE BY SOMETHING?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:06 pm
Diagnosed with RLS / PLMD back in 2001, started on 0.25 mg Requip increased to 4 mg over the years. The requip stopped working and I was switched to Mirapex 1.0 MG 2xday (equivalent to 12 MG Requip later finding out) which worked great for about 7-months. I started having trouble breathing, felt as if someone had put a plastic bag over my head causing suffocation, stopped Mirapex and restarted requip 4MG at night. I'M CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING AUMENTATION, so I'm getting about 2-3 hours sleep each night. I need to taper-off requip and start something different, no more dopamine antagonist for me once I figure out the less painful way to become Dopamine Antagonist free.
Anyways the topic of my conversation is do you believe that RLS which I believe to actually be a disease and not a syndrome could actually be in your genes at birth waiting to be activated by some outside means? The reason I ask this question is because of the initial way my RLS started. US Navy,
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 4-year tour which lead to my last deployment in 98-99, ended up heading for Persian Gulf (WAR), October - November 1998. The possibility of Anthrax attacks were considered high, so everyone on-board the ship were given 3-Anthrax Vaccines over 6-week period and the vaccines were all of a sudden stopped. The Anthrax Vaccines are a series of 6-shots over a certain period. I departed the USS Enterprise in July 1999 reported for duty ONBOARD Naval Station Norfolk, VA , Shore Duty...Depression set-in, agitated all the time, mad most of the time for unknown reasons, constantly tired day after day, tried covering-up with alcohol. I went to the doctor and he says: I believe you have depression lets send you for a sleep lab this is approx. August 2001 time-frame. I was diagnosed with Restless Leg Syndrome / Periodic Limb Movement / Obstructive Sleep Apnea...started on the 0.25 Requip and CPAP machine...before the vaccines I was fine???
Anyways the topic of my conversation is do you believe that RLS which I believe to actually be a disease and not a syndrome could actually be in your genes at birth waiting to be activated by some outside means? The reason I ask this question is because of the initial way my RLS started. US Navy,
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 4-year tour which lead to my last deployment in 98-99, ended up heading for Persian Gulf (WAR), October - November 1998. The possibility of Anthrax attacks were considered high, so everyone on-board the ship were given 3-Anthrax Vaccines over 6-week period and the vaccines were all of a sudden stopped. The Anthrax Vaccines are a series of 6-shots over a certain period. I departed the USS Enterprise in July 1999 reported for duty ONBOARD Naval Station Norfolk, VA , Shore Duty...Depression set-in, agitated all the time, mad most of the time for unknown reasons, constantly tired day after day, tried covering-up with alcohol. I went to the doctor and he says: I believe you have depression lets send you for a sleep lab this is approx. August 2001 time-frame. I was diagnosed with Restless Leg Syndrome / Periodic Limb Movement / Obstructive Sleep Apnea...started on the 0.25 Requip and CPAP machine...before the vaccines I was fine???