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anyone suffer from restless legs?
how do you find comfort dealing with this?
my legs get very restless and jumpy when I am over tired and sometimes the only thing to do is walk but the only way I can get rid of the feeling is too get my butt to bed
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This is an old wives' tale that seems to actually work, but no one knows why.
Take a bar of Ivory Soap, unwrap it, stick it under the fitted sheet near your feet. After a few months, when it stops working, exchange the bar.
Works for me!
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You are lucky going to bed helps. That's when I have the most problem with restless legs.
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Try magnesium supplements! I used to have really bad RLS and still occasionally get it. Magnesium helped me. Take it about an hour before bed.
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walking does seem to help mine
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I think I have restless legs sometimes, but I just rub them or walk on them and it goes away, not sure that is the best thing to do but I don't know.
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I think tonic water would help. Hubby uses it for cramps from his one medication. He tried magnesium supplements but they helped only part of the time. His Cardiologist said to take tonic water, as did his best friend who had the same valve replacement. It works great if he "works" normally during the day. If he does heavy duty work like tree cutting all day long, he still gets cramps in his hand that holds the chainsaw.
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Definitely exercise will help. :thumbsup:
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I do have restless legs really bad. Tried several home remedies which did not work for me. Now my doctor has prescribed me an Rx which seems to work just great.
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:'(
legs hurting.
tryed a few things but will just have to keep trying.
hope everyone else finds comfort :heart:
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Try and take magnesium or potassium supplements. That helps my symptoms. Exercise can help, too.
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Sometimes my legs feel like the nerves are going to jump clean out of my legs. I just rub them and they eventually stop jumping.
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yes!! and i have yet to find anything that helps --i do eat a lot of bananas and i take meds but nothing is 100 percent ! i wish you much luck in finding something !
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Try checking different things out online and try a few and see if any work for you.
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thanks all :) I will certainly be trying some of these.
As for the exercise I get my exercise. I usually get 10,000 plus steps a day. and the days I exercise it actually seems to be worst when I go to relax.
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I just recently started having trouble with restless legs. Wakes me up in the middle of the night. At first walking and stretching my legs seem to offer temporary relief but I would soon wake up with it again. Found a cream, Synovium, that seems to be helping. It is an awful feeling. The only positive for me is I'm retired and if I don't get sleep at night I can deal with it.
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Sometimes I have it happen to me at night. Getting up and moving around seems to help the cycle for me. Then I am able to go back to bed and sleep. But if I fight it it seems to get worse until I give up and get up. I know it is from standing and working long hours at work. But Thank God it is not every night.
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I was diagnosed with RLS but I am not convinced that is what it is. I have the feeling like popcorn popping in my legs from thigh to feet 24/7. I also have excruciating painful muscle cramps in my legs throughout the day and night. It is so bad that I have trouble driving now. I am allergic to Gabopentin so my Dr. is reluctant to try Lyrica or anything in the same drug family. I had anaphyalaxis with Gabopentin. I've been up the past three nights. I am praying I can get some sleep tonight as I am exhausted.
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From the sounds of what everyone else is saying, my RLS is probably pretty minor. I've actually never been diagnosed, but did talk to my doctor about it about six months ago while there for a visit on something else. It isn't anything that wakes me up and it is not every single night (sometimes I have no symptoms for a week or two or even longer).
Mine is just discomfort where I feel the need to lift and drop my legs repeatedly while laying down. I've never looked at actual remedies other than moving the legs around a bit. My doctor said that he would never prescribe anything for it unless it was pretty severe because the meds he would use to treat it are the same used to treat Parkinson's disease.
One other thing I've found in my case (it could all be in my head) is that I seem to experience it more often and more severely when I actively think about it. Maybe it is just more awareness, but it's kind of like yawning. If you think about yawning, you're going to do it. [apologies for any chain reactions I am setting off for you all right now by making that observation] If I think about RLS, it sometimes seems to bring it on or bring it on more severely.
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Does restless legs happen when you're awake, or only when you're sleeping? Just because sometimes my legs get very jittery and I can't stop moving them around, quite frankly.