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alota_cookin:
I've been diagnosed with RLS and, yes, it does suck! LOL

I also have OSA - Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Chaos:
D'oh! Sorry to hear that. Have you been able to find a way to control it at all? I know my sister Rachel has tried sooooo many different therapies and nothing really does it...she often ends up going without sleep for days at a time because she can't lie still long enough to fall asleep and/or stay asleep. Currently they've been giving her codeine when it's *really* bad just to knock her out. And then it seems to be okay for a few days then gets really bad again. Ugh!

alota_cookin:
Well, RLS is only part of my sleep issues. Like I said, I also have OSA and am borderline Narcoleptic. The sleep study that I had done, and diagnosed me with these things, showed me falling asleep in about 5 minutes (which is borderline Narcoleptic) but waking up an average of 9 times an hour. So I know how your sister feels, having to go days, or longer, without any descent sleep.

OSA is the number one leading cause, of excessive daytime sleepiness. Narcolepsy is the second, and RLS is the third.

I don't know what your sister has tried, but RLS is sometimes caused by underlying sleep disorders...so finding, and treating, those can help reduces RLS. Also...losing extra weight, decreasing caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco can help...or adding a regular exercise regimen (however exercise can sometimes aggravate it more), she could also try iron, folate, and magnesium supplements because RLS can be caused by those deficiencies. Some people find that warm baths and massaging their legs, before bed, can help reduce the symptoms, too.

Those are, really, the only possible treatments, that I know of (other that giving her something, like the Codeine, to knock her out). Personally, though, nothing works...boy, do I feel her frustrations!  >:(

julilly:
A throwback to the story that just won't finish itself...

Ataxia - a neurological sign and symptom consisting of gross lack of coordination of muscle movements. :)

Carrie:
Zanaflex may help on the RLS...I have to take it for MS. Thank God I don't have spasticity in my legs but when I don't take it, sometimes that pops up in my right leg....I get horrible leg cramps - again in my right leg which really sucks!

Just a thought on the drug...btw, it does snow you at night which would help her sleep.

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