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Re: alternative treatments

Posted by Giles on January 03, 1998 at 17:46:40:

In Reply to: Re: alternative treatments posted by Brian on December 17, 1997 at 19:37:10:

I don't know if I have the same thing. I wake up after two or three hours sleep with a kind of throbbing sensation in my calves. It's not painful so much as irritating. And then I'm awake for two or three hours. Anyway, I've been treating this with Vitamin B-Complex (50 mgs of practically everything, with 400 mcg of Folic Acid). Studies have shown Folic Acid to be effective in treating insomnia. It sure worked for me. I was taking twice that dose, and, after quitting caffeine, had to cut it in half. And it was still very effective. But now, I have a personal Catch 22 in that I'm finding the vitamins increasingly painful to digest. (I had an ulcer last year and had to stop taking them altogether--which brought the insomnia back with a vengeance.) If anyone knows of an expert in vitamin therapy for this sort of thing, please let me know. Thanks.

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