RLS and Adult ADD or ADHD? Anyone have both? Please help!
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:33 pm
Hi everyone! I'm brand new to the board but it's pretty urgent I post this message first...I'll try to make it somewhat brief
I am going to a psychiatrist at the end of the month because I am almost completely sure I have ADD (obviously I'm no doctor but the signs and symptoms describe me to a T!). I have taken a long and distressing road to come to this conclusion.
Now, as far as RLS goes, I had developed it while I was pregnant (my son is now 6 months old) to a degree that it was extremely aggravating in the evenings but manageable and tolerable enough. I felt it only in my legs at that time and it went away shortly before I gave birth.
It has recently re-developed when my PCP mistakenly diagnosed me with depression and put me on the antidepressant Lexapro. Within one hour of taking my first pill I made the comment to my husband that I felt very strange. He asked me how so and I responded that my muscles felt all creepy crawly and I had the strong urge to flex them really hard. I felt it through my whole body, especially in the shoulders, back, hips and calves. I remember commenting that it reminded me vivedly of the RLS while I was pregnant. I wasn't sure what was happening, but by that evening I knew for sure that my RLS was back and it was 10 fold what I had experienced while pregnant. I was up until 3am pacing my livingroom until finally passing out on my couch from exhaustion.
Needless to say, I quit the medication immediatly...against the advice of my doctor (he probably has no idea how terrible that feeling truly is!) but the RLS is still there. The intensity has diminished considerably, but at times it's keeping me awake past midnight (I am usually in bed by 9pm because my dear son is up at 5am).
PHEW! That was a mouthful! Finally for my question! Does anyone on this site (I pray there is!) have ADD or ADHD along with the RLS? If so, do you know if the amphetamines typically prescribed for ADD/ADHD have any effect on the RLS whether it be good, bad, or neutral?
ANY INFO IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I am going to a psychiatrist at the end of the month because I am almost completely sure I have ADD (obviously I'm no doctor but the signs and symptoms describe me to a T!). I have taken a long and distressing road to come to this conclusion.
Now, as far as RLS goes, I had developed it while I was pregnant (my son is now 6 months old) to a degree that it was extremely aggravating in the evenings but manageable and tolerable enough. I felt it only in my legs at that time and it went away shortly before I gave birth.
It has recently re-developed when my PCP mistakenly diagnosed me with depression and put me on the antidepressant Lexapro. Within one hour of taking my first pill I made the comment to my husband that I felt very strange. He asked me how so and I responded that my muscles felt all creepy crawly and I had the strong urge to flex them really hard. I felt it through my whole body, especially in the shoulders, back, hips and calves. I remember commenting that it reminded me vivedly of the RLS while I was pregnant. I wasn't sure what was happening, but by that evening I knew for sure that my RLS was back and it was 10 fold what I had experienced while pregnant. I was up until 3am pacing my livingroom until finally passing out on my couch from exhaustion.
Needless to say, I quit the medication immediatly...against the advice of my doctor (he probably has no idea how terrible that feeling truly is!) but the RLS is still there. The intensity has diminished considerably, but at times it's keeping me awake past midnight (I am usually in bed by 9pm because my dear son is up at 5am).
PHEW! That was a mouthful! Finally for my question! Does anyone on this site (I pray there is!) have ADD or ADHD along with the RLS? If so, do you know if the amphetamines typically prescribed for ADD/ADHD have any effect on the RLS whether it be good, bad, or neutral?
ANY INFO IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!