jan3213 wrote:Hi Randy, it's Jan
I'm not sure if I have welcomed you or not. But, welcome anyway!!! Glad you have found us!!!
Hi Jan, thanks for the welcome. Nice to meet you and nice to be here.
Ann's post got me thinking about my sleep study.
When I was discussing the sleep study with the Neuro Doc, I told him a sleep study would never work with me. I can't sleep in hospitals, or motels or really anywhere 'cept my bed, so he gave me a couple sleeping pills to take...Ambien. So when I get there, it just so happened that my back had gone out a few weeks earlier and I had one Vicodin left that I was saving for when I needed it. So I told Eva, the Sleep Lady that I had the Ambien and that most sleep medications I'd ever taken had made my legs bother me so I was gonna take a Vicodin with it. She said...go ahead.
Then I find out that Codeine is one of the treatments for RLS. So how could I have gotten an accurate sleep study done after taking Ambien, a sedative, and Vicodin?
I don't know.
Apparently they still discovered the RLS, but I wonder how much of it was noticable under all that medication? You know, I wasn't even thinking about my leg problems. I didn't even know the RLS was keeping me from getting good sleep, once I got to sleep...matter of fact, at the time I didn't know anything about RLS. All I knew about a sleep study was they looked for Apnea (which I still can't spell).
Ann...you have my sympathies. I must have a light case of RLS compared to what you're describing going through. I hope they get you fixed up.[/b]