I've been up for the past 2 nights,Help!!!!!

You so have my sympathy Doris. I've tried over the years to make sense of when I'm up all night and just when I think I've sussed it then I'm proved wrong again! Absolutely no one seems to be able to help us. Now a funny thing happened earlier in the year. We went to Aus, NZ and Dubai - yes a lot of flying which is where my RLS started nearly 20 years ago. On some flight I was going mental with my other half rubbing one leg for 4 hours!! However when I got home I didn't have any problems for 2 months😀😀 Then it started again so l don't know. On decaf everything, keeping wine to a minimum but some nights I resort to whisky trying to knock myself out!!!

So no, we're on our own with this nightmare until science comes up with a miracle. Sorry 😡😡😡😡

Me too Doris and there's nothing we can do. I'm grateful I only get it in one leg every week or two and when I do its awful so having it all night every night would b e a living hell. I take magmedium- may help. Don't know. I go to bed when I get it and it's gone a couple of hours after I go to sleep. Lucky me

I feel your pain, its horrendous. I suffer with both legs but also my right arm. The heat makes mine worse so I try to keep cool and also use a lot of moisturiser as dry skin dont help. I only have it mildly now and some nights not at all. Might be worth having your iron ferritin levels checked. Mine were onky slightly low but a course of iron tablets has greatly improved things. Good luck 😊

Hello Doris, I have suffered quite a few years and found various info which may help you. If you are on Ropinirole you will get augmentation, that is ,you need more of it over time to keep things under control. See your doctor and try an alternative like Pramipexol or Rotigotin patches, these are the same family of drugs but seem to work differently on different people. Also something that shows up in my research is that you may have a low ferritin level in your blood even though the iron level is normal. Ferritin is used in the brain help with dopamine. I am trying an iron supplement at the moment as my ferritin level was very low and after 2months the symptoms seem to be less severe and occour later in the evening. Get the doctor to check your ferritin levels. Hope these ideas help, don't dispair keep researching.

Hi Doris get your iron levels checked or just but yourself some ferrous sulphate tablets from the chemist . One tablet a day and keep it up . Takes a while to start feeling the benefit but for me it cured it. Sometimes it returns and it's always when I've forgotten to take my iron.