Soooo, "scientist" that I am [not], I wondered what it was that made ice cream a trigger. Couldn't have been it's frozen quality, I thought, so it had to be an ingredient. I have become of late, very suspicious of ANYthing with corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup in foods. I even found it as an ingredient in canned diced tomatoes!
Believing in starting at the most obvious issue first when trying to solve a problem, within the past week I have eaten no ice cream with corn syrup in it (yes, difficult to find, but can be done, mostly the upscale brands which helps me eat less if I have to pay more)
On 2 occasions, just as a control, I went back to the ice cream with corn syrup and voila! RLS within a few hours.
Today my "Nightwalkers" arrived and I read in there that someone had determined their trigger as food coloring ingredient FD&C yellow #5, with the reds also highly suspect.
Just knowing this has already made me more conscious of what I ingest. I may not have had any control over how I got it, but am beginning to realize that I may not have to be so heavily medicated. Continuing to eat as I have been is like putting on layers of clothing in the summertime and then turning down the air conditioning for comfort. Also, I've been more diligent about taking my iron tablets. I still hate that it seems I am taking meds all day long, but I much more dislike the alternative
