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New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 4:56 pm
by Rustsmith
Here is a link to a new American Academy of Sleep Medicine for the treatment of RLS and PLMD. It specifically recommends against the use of all of the dopamine agonists and calls out recommendations for specific IV iron treatments.
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.11390
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 5:55 pm
by Polar Bear
Thank you for this. Excellent news.
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 2:32 am
by ViewsAskew
Rustsmith wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 4:56 pm
Here is a link to a new American Academy of Sleep Medicine for the treatment of RLS and PLMD. It specifically recommends against the use of all of the dopamine agonists and calls out recommendations for specific IV iron treatments.
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.11390
That is awesome to hear!
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 6:21 pm
by ViewsAskew
And, an interesting new paper about how important those guidelines may be.
https://sleepreviewmag.com/sleep-disord ... ave-begun/
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:01 pm
by Rustsmith
Thanks Ann. I really like that paper. The one thing that I wish they had added to the part about Winkleman's regrets for his role in the use of pramipexole was that his "penance" has been to run the Foundation's "Opioid Registry" whose goal is to demonstrate the safety of using low dose opioids to treat RLS over the long haul (instead of the 12 week trial he did for pramipexole).
Now they need to start getting this info in front of the GPs that are prescribing the majority of the DAs for entry level RLS.
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:14 pm
by beckycolorado
thanks Steve. Just sent it over to my doctor at UC Health Movement Disorder Clinic!
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:34 am
by ViewsAskew
Rustsmith wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:01 pm
Thanks Ann. I really like that paper. The one thing that I wish they had added to the part about Winkleman's regrets for his role in the use of pramipexole was that his "penance" has been to run the Foundation's "Opioid Registry" whose goal is to demonstrate the safety of using low dose opioids to treat RLS over the long haul (instead of the 12 week trial he did for pramipexole).
Now they need to start getting this info in front of the GPs that are prescribing the majority of the DAs for entry level RLS.
Agreed to both!
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 4:51 am
by badnights
ViewsAskew wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:34 am
Rustsmith wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:01 pm
Thanks Ann. I really like that paper. The one thing that I wish they had added to the part about Winkleman's regrets for his role in the use of pramipexole was that his "penance" has been to run the Foundation's "Opioid Registry" whose goal is to demonstrate the safety of using low dose opioids to treat RLS over the long haul (instead of the 12 week trial he did for pramipexole).
Now they need to start getting this info in front of the GPs that are prescribing the majority of the DAs for entry level RLS.
Agreed to both!
They really downplayed the whole opioid issue, I thought. But that's probably just my perspective, slanted as it is from my personal experience and this board.
Re: New AASM Guidelines for treating RLS and PLMD
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2024 7:55 am
by ViewsAskew
badnights wrote: Sun Nov 24, 2024 4:51 am
ViewsAskew wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 7:34 am
Rustsmith wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:01 pm
Thanks Ann. I really like that paper. The one thing that I wish they had added to the part about Winkleman's regrets for his role in the use of pramipexole was that his "penance" has been to run the Foundation's "Opioid Registry" whose goal is to demonstrate the safety of using low dose opioids to treat RLS over the long haul (instead of the 12 week trial he did for pramipexole).
Now they need to start getting this info in front of the GPs that are prescribing the majority of the DAs for entry level RLS.
Agreed to both!
They really downplayed the whole opioid issue, I thought. But that's probably just my perspective, slanted as it is from my personal experience and this board.
ABSOLUTELY!