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| Lea Vollmer |
Posted - Mar 11 2008 : 11:08:10 PM
I've just been diagnosed with Restless Leg Syndrome and have heard that a bar of Ivory Soap placed under the bottom sheet of your bed helps with the symptoms. Anyone here have the same problem? What works for you? I'm taking Requip, but sometimes it just doesn't seem to help.
Lea
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 08 2009 : 9:16:22 PM
Another thing I have heard that works but haven't tried yet for my own RLS is Valerian root- Anyone tried that one yet?
Alee
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Jun 08 2009 : 7:20:18 PM
I, too, keep a bar of soap, wrapped, in my bed. I've been doing this for at least three years. Works like a charm for me. Can't explain why. I never eat chocolate or any kind of sugar after 5 PM. I know I'll be up all night. Hope the soap works for you. Marly
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| Thistle Cove Farm |
Posted - May 18 2009 : 4:40:27 PM
Sounds like you may be low on potassium; try eating a banana or drinking orange juice every day. That should help.
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| suzifire |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 12:23:25 PM
The soap thing WORKS!!!!! I have done it for years...it does not have to be Ivory, I use a lavender soap which helps with sleeping anyway....i tried it as a lark since Nothing else helped & I really had to get some sleep. How it works I don't know it seems impossible, I have a pharmacist friend who tried it and also said it worked for her.
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| KYLinny |
Posted - Feb 21 2009 : 7:18:33 PM
Linda Rose,
Are you a nurse? I was an RN, pedi spec., for more than 20yrs before becoming handicapped in 1994.
I've not found any scientist willing to go on record that soap works; all I know is that, as a sufferer of RLS, it works incredibly well. In fact, ever since I started using soap (I have a mitt full of soap chips and I also rub my bed sheets down with soap every night), the RLS episodes have lessened until I haven't had any in just over a month.
What a blessing... and what wonderful relief. I had no idea how much the RLS was messing up my entire life.
Thank you all for bringing this topic and this cure to light.
prayers, hugs, blessings,
KYlinny
Remember you are not alone. There is no place where the love of GOD cannot reach you.
blessings, prayers, and hugs,
Linny |
| a rose |
Posted - Feb 21 2009 : 1:38:47 PM
The bar of soap works really well. Even found an article in a nursing magazine. No body kmows why it works but if does.
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| Diane B Carter |
Posted - Feb 14 2009 : 12:57:41 PM
Lea, My mother and I both suffer from RLS. We have a bar of soap under the bottom sheet near our feet. I have Caress and I think she has Irish Spring. I have changed the soap only once in the past year. We tell everyone to try it. It has worked well for both of us and for the cost why not try it. We love it. I even told my doctor about it and she said she just heard about it from some one else that day and said she would tell her patients about it. |
| happydaze |
Posted - Jan 16 2009 : 5:28:59 PM
I use tonic water (still has quinine in it)for leg cramps and rehydrating in the summer heat..works great, my former big city doc told me this one |
| KYLinny |
Posted - Dec 26 2008 : 12:54:06 PM
HI! and thanks for the reminder about the meds. Would it be all right if you told what the med was that caused your hubby's RLS side effects?
I take a lot of meds and already have liver damage from going toxic on several of them, so I'm determined to get rid of the RLS and if I can save what's left of liver, all the better.
praying for your health and every blessing in the New Year,
KYLinny
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blessings, prayers, and hugs,
Linny |
| Room To Grow |
Posted - Dec 26 2008 : 12:06:51 PM
Some meds actually cause RLS. My husband has had it since he started a medication about 4 yrs ago. They took him of the meds because it causes life threating side effects. And he developed all but 1. And now that he has been off this med. he has no effects of the RLS. But when he did he used icy hot and it worked. Maybe it can work for you.
Deborah
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| ClaireSky |
Posted - Nov 01 2008 : 06:43:57 AM
At one point in my life I was taking a certain kind of diet pill. I developed RLS. I didn't realize at first that it was the diet pills causing the RLS. I stopped taking the diet pills and the RLS stopped. About 6 months later, I started the diet pills again. Same thing happened, I developed the RLS again. The diet pills went into the garbage. I haven't had any symptoms ever again. |
| keeperofthehome |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 7:38:45 PM
I have RLS as well. In researching it I found out that it can be a side effect of anemia and it's genetic. I am extremely anemic and since I've began taking a natural iron supplement (Floradix) my RLS has been much better. I have also stopped drinking teas with caffeine after 1pm. My Dad takes a prescription for his, but it doesn't help enough.
Blessings!
~Farrah
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| LivingWell4You |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 3:51:56 PM
Okay, I'm going to have to try the Ivory soap thing after reading all these testimonies. I don't have restless legs every night but if I lay in bed awake long enough, it strikes. What has worked for me is to bend my knees so they're pointing to the ceiling and then let them fall to the sides. It seems to relieve the pressure/tension/whatever and I can sleep. Does anyone else do this?
God bless -
Karen
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| one_dog_per_acre |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 09:08:15 AM
I cured my problem with leg cramps with tonic and bananas. I wish I would have known about the soap when I was pregnant.
Trish
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| KYLinny |
Posted - Sep 04 2008 : 09:01:17 AM
Blessings Aimee,
I absolutely love your "Motto to Live By" --- AMEN! Farmsister! I've been handicapped since 1994...been through a coma... been through all kinds of things. Through it all, what I've learned is that life is a precious gift and you have to live full-joy, grab for the gusto, it's all an adventure! What a ride, indeed! 
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Originally posted by aimeeravae
The DH puts pressure on the cramping area and it seams to reduce the "pulling". Thats the only way I can describe it, like someone is pulling from the inside.
Aimee
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"Life should NOT be a jouney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!"
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blessings, prayers, and hugs,
Linny |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 07 2008 : 9:07:43 PM
Beverly:
I read an article in the local newspaper written by Dr. Gott, I don't know who the doctor is, but he mentioned the soap. I don't remember much about the article. But, I was having legs cramps so bad. I would have tried anything. The soap worked for me. I was skeptical, too, but I was more desperate! Try it.
Marly |
| Beverley |
Posted - Aug 07 2008 : 5:32:07 PM
Ok Just how does a bar of soap put under the sheets help this? I am skeptical? Beverley
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 07 2008 : 3:15:14 PM
I put the wrapped bar of soap between the fitted sheet and the top sheet. It is by my lower legs. It works for me. I hope it helps you.
Marly |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Aug 07 2008 : 09:49:34 AM
SO where do you stick the soap?? Under the bed, sheets??? Thanks because DH has restless legs bad...
Heather
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| KellyA |
Posted - Aug 07 2008 : 09:18:49 AM
So this is where my mom found out about soap in the bed!! The other day I changed her (a rose) bed for her and out fell a bar of soap! Very unusual cure, but she thinks it is working! :-)
Kelly
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 06 2008 : 7:56:48 PM
I am a true believer in the soap in the bed. Last night I changed the bed linen and forgot my bar of soap. This morning I had a cramp in my lower leg. It hurts so much I couldn't even move my leg. When things were better, the first thing I did was get the bar of soap, and back under the covers it went!
Marly |
| aimeeravae |
Posted - Jul 24 2008 : 09:37:27 AM
The DH puts pressure on the cramping area and it seams to reduce the "pulling". Thats the only way I can describe it, like someone is pulling from the inside.
Aimee
http://laplantewardklopf.blogspot.com/ Motto To Live By
"Life should NOT be a jouney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!" |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Jul 23 2008 : 9:28:54 PM
Lea:
I have slept with a bar of soap (any kind) in my bed for over three years. I haven't had restless legs since!!!!!! Also, when I get a cramp in my legs, I flex my toes upward toward me. The cramp goes away. wierd or not, both work for me.
Marly
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| Montrose Girl |
Posted - Jul 06 2008 : 08:52:00 AM
One of the things that causes it is a lack of potassium. bananas and corn are both high in it and after reading another thread so is molassas. when mine flares up it is because I have not had enough. On the road hotels usually have bananas for breakfast, but I am trying to get more corn in my system.
Best Growing |
| abbysshadow |
Posted - Jun 12 2008 : 07:22:36 AM
hi all... last year some time the "doctor column" in our newspaper brought up the "soap under the sheets" thing and so many people wrote in to say that they had tried it and it worked for them...for RLS and leg cramps...the column put in at least one letter per day about that for weeks...it sounds worth a try...I believe it was Dr. Gott's column...
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