03-07-2007, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by A1R3K
those conditions are made up by drug compaines.
it doesn't exist. get good sleep eat right and exercise and miraculously you will get better.
only in the u.s. is there all this made up diseases to sell more drugs.
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i have to respectfully disagree. i have RLS and PLMD (periodic limb movement disorder) and Sleep Apnea - and i don't take medications for any of them & i didn't find out i had it from a doctor telling me so to push their free sample drugs. 
RRRED -
some things you can do, or that might help:
my RLS makes it so that i wake up from either jerking from muscle spasms or from stopping breathing with the sleep apnea and then i lie awake at night with my legs spasming and my feet and toes kicking and sort of 'crawling' against the sheets for cycles of minutes at a time for about half of the night.
i find that if i get up when i have this problem and either walk around a bit or sit in front of something mildly mindless (surfing forums for instance, or reading an easy book) for about 15 minutes my brain redirects and starts to tell my body it's sleepy again and i can usually get back to sleep. your problem is slightly different because it sounds like he's doing fine sleeping but he's keeping you awake!
the more someone focuses on trying to mentally "stop" the muscle twitching the worse it gets, so it's best to try to redirect your brain or to give in to your legs' need to move and walk around/do something active with them.
in addition to that i take supplements for iron, calcium and magnesium to help with the twitching. sometimes people with RLS are found to be more deficient in these areas.
i also recommend exercising regularly, and especially close to just before bedtime if possible.
keeping a regular sleep schedule - namely sleeping and waking at the same time everyday is also really helpful in getting your body to settle into a pattern and to give you more restful sleep.
don't eat or drink anything for a few hours before bed.
it's still helpful to have a place for one partner to sleep if the other has RLS (or for the RLS patient to move to if need be - this too sometimes stops the trigger of leg movement) even though it sucks because you want to sleep with your honey!
i hope something in this info helps, there are also medication prescribed for it, but that's not my personal first choice. right now the main treatments are similar to antidepressants outside of one mediction, Requip, and another medication like Darvocet that's an opiod.
here's to a good night of sleep again, i know how frustrating this can be!
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