Posted by newkazoo on August 03, 2007 at 21:16:55:I have had RLS for many years and have for the most part learned to live with it. I am fortunate I don’t have the severe episodes some people have. Like clock work though, I go to bed around 10 or 11 pm and am woken up around 1 or 2 in the morning by RLS. I stay up for ten minutes or so-watch some TV and return to bed to usually fall back to sleep. For the past couple of weeks I had simply taken two ibuprofen just before I go to bed and have had two weeks without my sleep being interrupted with RLS. Eureka! I thought, I finally found the answer and it was so simple-so I thought. Guess what? It was back the last few nights. But a strange thought came to mind. Why does it always occur in the evening for me? And why does the symptoms of RLS inexplicably vanish at other times. It’s particularly frustrating when I think I discovered a solution (exercise, diet, vitamins, pharmaceuticals etc.) My newest remedy is always trashed while I am staring at the Tube at 2 AM. Well maybe here is where you the reader will think I am really a nut. Ready? Could it have something to do with the gravitational phases of the moon? I began researching the net and discovered their may be some merit in this assumption. No, I don’t believe there is any solid information to support the full moon causes people to be loony, but the articles I focused on were about how the moon phases create and effect human physiology with positive ions, also some articles on the influence the moon has on ocean tides and then looked at some past moon phases and comparing them with my restless and non restless nights. Not to jump to any conclusions, but I became curious if anyone on the forum had ever mentioned this before. Frankly if there is some causal connection between the moon and RLS I wouldn’t be surprised there was nothing we could do about it. But at least for me, to discover the moon does influence RLS makes me feel better. My grandmother may had been more credible then I thought when she was able to successfully predict, days in advance , storms approaching by the pain she felt in her back. My question is this; has anyone else thought of or read anything that referrs to a moon-gravity-positive ion connection with RLS?
- Re: Ever thought of this before? westernjoe 20:33 9/11/07 (0)