Restless Leg Syndrome???

[HarleyNana 10]

Anyone suffer from this disorder? If so, what do you do to relieve the urge to move your legs or feet.

[LilAngel 0]

Actually, I think I do. I have never been offcially diagnosed, but I don't think the symptoms are mistakable on this one. Really, there isn't much I can do. In the middle of the night I get up and and do stretches and walk around. Most of the time I can get back to sleep. There is a lot of stuff out there about this on the internet, but for the most part, a lot of stretching is all that has ever worked for me. Let me know if you get a hold of something good. I sure could use some tips too.

[vinesqueen 2]

MIRAPEX! It makes the most amazing difference!!!!

Some people think that restless legs are caused by a folic acid deficinecy. Taking folic acid helps me too. I have a chronic folic acid deficiency...

[Joyce in VA 0]

Try rubbing Vick's Salve on your legs before going to bed. It really works for me.

[Kelliebelly 13]

My sister has that pretty bad and the doc recommended she rub dencorub or deep heat into her legs and especially knees and strap her knees before going to bed. It makes a world of difference she says. It seems like a lot of work each night but give it a try it might be worth it.

Good Luck

[vinesqueen 2]

strap her knees before going to bed.

Oh dear gawd NO!!!!!! I think I'd rather have the restless legs that be done up like that. I

[hopefull 0]

I have this syndrome also.... I usually have it when I am overtired. Usually a couple of Tylenol helps along with going to bed. Some nights though...ugh...it's terrible. I just fidgit all over the place. DH is usually very good about massaging my calfs. I'll be sure try a couple of your suggestions.

[HarleyNana 10]

It's truly a miserable feeling. I thought I had found out what was causing it, before the band I did a lot of the Healthy Choice dinners, and various other frozen dinners, all filled with salt. After I quit eating those, my symptoms calmed down a lot. All of a sudden it's started up again. My PCP gave me a prescription called carbidopa/levo, which is for Parkinson's Disease patients. It calls for me to take 1 pill each night, BUT, when I read the side effects and HOW it works, I cut the pill in half, then break that in half, then break that in half, I think that works out to about 1/8th.

I don't know if it's all in my head, (or my legs), but that itsy bitsy pill makes all the difference in the world between a night ravaged with twisting my feet/legs and a good nights sleep. Just think I had the pills for a year before I even tried it, LOL.

For those of you who don't know what RLS is...lets just say, if someone suffering from RLS was told they'd be shot if they moved their legs one more time, I'd have to say pull the trigger, cause they're getting ready to move.

OMG, if somebody strapped my legs together, I bet I'd be able to break the straps once that need to twitch the legs started.

[Marimaru 7]

You mean this is really a condition?? Holy cow. My mom once told me that fidgity legs was a sign of poor circulation, but I didn't actually know it was a 'condition'. Wow. Well, now that I know, it's time to hit the research

[leatha_g 4]

I have had it for years. For me, it's worse if I'm overtired, as said above. The worst is having to sit on an airplane and it acting up.. Yikes! Walking is one of the only things I can do for it, that and drugs. I take an antidepressant that actually helps me get into a deeper sleep than without it and I think it keeps it under control for me. I have certainly had some miserable nights and evenings, though.

[MerryHearted 20]

Mine comes and goes, and yes, being overtired seem to be one of the major triggers for me too.

Sometimes I have to get up and walk around. If it gets really really bad I'll take a sleeping pill. My doc also offered me the Parkinson's medication but I said no, I didn't want to add another pill to the arsenal. If it ever gets chronically bad I'll probably cave on that though. Frankly, I'm hoping it'll go away or just be more rare when I've lost all my excess weight -- maybe I'll be less likely to be overtired?