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Here's to Your Health:  Restless Leg Syndrome keeping you up?  |
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gardening gayla
Farmgirl at Heart
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Gayla
Topeka
Kansas
USA
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 Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 11:17:42 PM
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After years of walking the floor some nights with this crazy tickle in my legs, I've found a very easy treatment. Powdered Magnesium works like a miracle drug w/o the side effects and cost. It must be the powder as the pills go through your system w/o properly disolving. I buy mine at an Atkins health store for about $8 a bottle and it lasts a month or so. There is also a brand called "Calm" that works the same but is about twice the cost. The instructions say to disolve it in hot water and drink as a tea but I'm not crazy about the lemon flavor so I disolve it in about 1/4 cup of hot water. It kind of foams up and by the time it is disolved, it has cooled enough to just drink it down. I've known for some time that anything containing caffeine causes me to have RLS and now I am even having trouble if I eat a small amount of chocolate so keep an eye on your diet as that may be the source of your trouble, too. As I've gotten older, that creepy feeling doesn't just stay in my legs at night. At times, it wakes me with it clear up into my back. I just can't tell you what a relief it is to get up, drink the magnesium and to be able to go back to sleep. Even my Dr is taking it now as she also has RLS. Everyone that I know who has tried it has found relief and I hope it works well for you too.
Blessings, from a country woman in the city. Gayla |
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
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Posted - Feb 15 2010 : 10:20:01 PM
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Way to cool Gayla!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Hugs,
Channah
Friendship is not something that can be bought, it is earned. |
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Roxy7
True Blue Farmgirl
1083 Posts
Robin
Denver
CO
USA
1083 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2010 : 8:46:10 PM
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Pamela Joy
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Pamela
Hesperus
CO
USA
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Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 12:34:58 PM
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My parents and my brother all use the bar of soap trick, and it works pretty well for them.
Peace, Love, and Joy |
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prairie_princess
True Blue Farmgirl
613 Posts
Elizabeth
Carpenter
WY
USA
613 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 1:49:07 PM
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my grandpa drinks coffee at night... he doesn't sleep very well, but he says it sure helps with the RLS!
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."
- Guy Clark
"The man who has planted a garden feels he has done something for the good of the world."
- Charles Dudley Warner |
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Kayce
True Blue Farmgirl
290 Posts
Kayce
Sebring
FL
USA
290 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2010 : 4:59:55 PM
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ok I dont know if I have RLS. My ex used to tease me that I would wake him up with me constantly rubbing my feet together.  I know I would fall asleep rubbing my feet together and well...if I am relaxing..I guess I am always rubbing my feet together
Uh...what does the soap do?
~Kayce~
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birdie71
True Blue Farmgirl
254 Posts
Robin
Glendale
Arizona
USA
254 Posts |
Posted - Mar 27 2010 : 1:06:07 PM
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My husband has RLS! He rubs his feet together and constantly wakes me up! I am going to see if he will try the powdered magnesium! Thank you!
Robin
Farmgirl #1301
Farming in the Sonoran Desert? Hmmm?! |
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KanMogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
Katherine
Rock
Kansas
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - Mar 27 2010 : 1:15:26 PM
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I have RLS and I am a diabetic. I take Mirapex prescribed by my neurologist. My primary care doctor has precribed a nutritional vitamin for me called METANX which is helping even more. I haven't asked to go off the Mirapex yet. METANX features the active, naturally occurring forms of Folic acid, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin B12. Its form can not be found in over the counter vitamins. It is somewhat expensive and my insurance doesn't cover it but my pharmicist gave me a discount card for it.
Live Love Laugh Much |
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KanMogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
349 Posts
Katherine
Rock
Kansas
USA
349 Posts |
Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 4:34:55 PM
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I forgot that I had responded to your topic and I went and started a new RLS blog. Maybe if I tried the powdered magnesium, I could get off Mirapex.
I would rather wear out than rust out.----Richard Cumberland |
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solilly
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lillian
Williamsburg
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Apr 15 2010 : 4:53:37 PM
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Ok what kind of soap are you ladies using. I have friends will RLS and because of it they have single sleeping quarters. Lilly 
learning the life I always wanted. |
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Tn.Earthmama
True Blue Farmgirl
451 Posts
Phyllis
Englewood
Tennessee
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Posted - Apr 16 2010 : 05:32:50 AM
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Gayla, thanks for the into, I have taken Mg. supplements, but haven't tried the kind you recommend, I will look for it.
Lillian, I think I have heard that most people use Irish Spring soap. haven't tried it out for myself.
sending hopes for peaceful nights. Phyllis |
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