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[nowayout]

Has anyone found any supplement helpful in relieving restless leg syndrome? 

[Mind]

Exercise. That worked for me. Also avoid excess sugar before going to sleep.

[nowayout]

Exercise. That worked for me. Also avoid excess sugar before going to sleep.

 

I'm already doing both with no improvement. 

 

Have a prescription for pramipexole but worried about it possibly making things worse (augmentation). 

Edited by nowayout, 13 July 2015 - 09:08 PM.

[bbminded]

Have you recently stopped taking any prescribed medications? Especially those that effect your dopamine.

[Mind]

What type of exercise and for how long? A short jog? Weight-lighting? Swimming?

[nowayout]

Well, bloodwork just in shows that I have marked iron-deficiency anemia, so the cause is identified.  

 

Thank you all for the suggestions.

[phyllis8]

I have found fulvic acid works-get mine on amazon.  I use primordial plant .  have used others.  if I miss a few days-comes back.

[nowayout]

Pramipexole helped but I weaned myself off so as not to become dependent on it.

 

Iron supplementation seems to have helped as well.

 

I still have some RLS some evenings and/or nights.  It is always concentrated in my left hamstring, possibly also related to some nerve impingement in my lower back (I have a history of radiculitis down the left leg).  I find that sticking an electrostim pad to it is very helpful (the kind you buy in drugstores) - it reduces the urge to move the leg by automatically contracting the hamstring for me so I don't have to.  I even go to bed with it on sometimes or stick it on if I wake up restless in the middle of the night, and usually fall asleep before it has completed its fifteen-minute cycle.  .  

Edited by nowayout, 10 November 2015 - 04:00 PM.