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RLS defination and help?


Posted by Margaret on August 10, 1999 at 16:27:19:

Please pardon me for butting into this forum, I need to get some answers if I can?

My RLS started about in my early twenties, I think it was pre children. We have three, now I’m 49, female. My legs feel warm and have to be stretched and moved to the point where I feel anxious and I have to get up and have to move. When I do get up and move I tense the leg muscles and rock side to side or walk around to get some relief. The RLS can be gone for a few moments, or longer but will eventually return on a daily basis, usually at any time of the day.

My RLS has been so bad that when I am driving or riding in a vehicle and RLS onsets my mind actually thinks about getting out of the vehicle ..... traveling or not!

I have been on 10 mg to 50mg amitriptyline over the past four to five years only to allow me to get into a sleep state to avoid my husbands apneatic snoring. Now that he is on a CPAP with success and snoring has totally stopped, I’m wondering if the drug has anything to do with the RLS, but how about the 20+ years previous without amitriptyline and still having RLS? My mother (76) has RLS and both my daughters 13 and 21 have commented about an RLS which is starting to onset them in sporadic sessions.

Is there a place in this forum or somewhere else that has a definitive definition of RLS, its causes and are there any vitamins, supplements or other drugs either natural or man made added or deleted from diet which seem to help?

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