Nearly had enough of this RLS

Odon, your observations merit great and prolong applause becaue it is obvious to me, almost 80 years old, you have done enormous research and weeded out the unlikely. From your quinine observation-suggested to me 65 years ago by doctors at the University of Chicago who, even then, called my condition RLS, to all you say about dopamine agonists, on and on, most of it is spot on. You have shared what is obviously truly deep, careful, and enormous research into the issue of RLS. You have a better grasp of all of the ramifications than any other person with whom I have had contact in all these years.

More people suffer from this so-called syndrome than most people realize. It is also a matte of degree. These people who sit and constantly bounce one leg and deny that they have RLS are blind.

They just have a mild case of it. Or anyone who cannot sit through a film, a play, or a concert without getting up and moving, has it. Children have it. A brilliant first grade teacher who had 4 ADHD kids in class finally constructed one legged stools for those 4. In order to keep their balance they kept swaying about, but they no longer needed to get up and run around the classroom. ADHA-Restlessness is everywhere and getting worse. Food, Cell Phones, disturbed brain chemistry?

At any rate, Odon, whoever you are, you have reached a level of wisdom rarely seen in today's world no matter where one lives.

(However, please forget the entire and ridiculously self contradictory Fopmop diet, or whatever the anagram is. You might as well stop eating entirely.)

The long and short of it is this. Every human being has an entirely different DNA structure and an entirely different body/brain chemistry from every other single human creature on earth, or elsewhere. The two are interdependent. That being said, all these so-called solutions (there are no cures) for RLS are pointless in that each one of us must try various ways to find relief. Magnesium might help Mary, but it will have no effect on Paul. Diet, injections, drugs, meditation, religion, therapy, ropinerole, yoga, dopamine agonists, cannabis - though this is gaining support even "scientifrically"- doesn't matter, each of us must experiment until we find which one or combination helps us the most.

The value of this forum is that we can take leads from other people, try them, discard them and keep trying. After 70 years of this particular issue of RLS ( which when young was called ADHD, which, incidentally is nothing more than a description of human behaviour and does not offer any solution to the cause of what can be, and often is, a problem not only for the person but also for her/his "entourage" ) and years of research at various medical centers in the USA and abroad, we can only conclude that the cause of RLS and ADHD is based in brain chemistry, and that each brain chemsitry is unique. So we each need to find our own solution, and from my own experience, no solution is permanent, they will all ultimately lead to augmentation at which point it is efficacious to switch therapies. The older one gets the more likely it is that the RLS will become RSS moving from restless leg to restless spine, and why in the hell is everything called a syndrome? Again, these forums give just about every alternative possible. "Ya pays yer penny and ya takes yer choice".

It is obvious, however, that Odon is highly evolved, her/his observations about repeating life, or the spiritual aspect of being,

or the fact that he/she recognizes other planes than the so-called "real" one, or that he/she has overcome anxiety attacks, point to the fact that Odon has a depth of understanding of human nature which would profit others to consider.

In spite of my admiration for this person and his/her outlook, I dare to suggest that you, Odon, might try getting over the obsession with sleeplessness by a couple of considerations and answering the following questions to yourself:

#1. Who decides how much sleep we each need?

#2. Do you feel you need more than you get?

#3. If so, why do you feel this?

#4. If you lie there sleepless how do you spend the time?

#5. Have you considered getting up, grabbing a paint brush and canvas and painting anything, realistic or not? Or writing, or composing, or just about anything active rather than lying there thinking about having to get up in a few hours without having slept.

I'm not talking about watching TV, playing computer games (get away from screens for pete's sake), reading, or working a crossword puzzle. I'm suggesting you leave the bed and try to do something creative. Even making a birthday card, writing a poem, baking a cake without a recipe, doing something creative with your imagination and your hands, anything but lying there and concentrating on your sleeplessness, can and will improve your being. Your sleeplessness will become inconsequential. You might not need to sleep at all.

You have handled many issues in your life in your own, spiritually, psychologically, and emotionally in an advanced way. You have all the makings of a creative person. In the event that you already do these things, then there is no reason to spend any more time feeling that you have "nearly" had enough of this RLS, unless, of course, this forum continues to validate your research, your experiences, your wisdom, your inherent need to share, and lets you feel a bit less lonely. In that case, or in any other for that matter, carry on.

In spite of a different body chemistry, different cultures, age, DNA and all the rest of it, just know that you are admired and respected from afar by someone who recognizes and has lived a life (with perhaps the exception of depression since I am almost always eurphoric) not entirely unsimilar to yours. Perhaps others might say to me, "Why, then, haven't you written privately to Odon about all of this instead of taking up all this space on this forum?" To them I respond, "Well, ask yourself, 'Why have you read this far'?"

As Gibran said, "The ear of life in me cannot hear the voice of life in you, but let us talk that we might not feel lonely."

So Odon and others, Sweet dreams, if you dare to dream, but "if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?"

And as T.S. Eliot added, "Til human voices wake us, and we drown."

I am interested in magnets because I can't understand how they can possibly work.  I find it confusing that in many cases the same people who want us to use magnets for curing things also complain about the magnetism caused by high voltage power lines and machinery saying it is bad for our health.   We live all the time in the earth's magnetic field and it doesn't seem to help  - not that we have any alternative.

I would suggest that you be very cautious about paying money for any magnetic devices.   If you want to try you can get lots of flexible magnets off your fridge with advertisements for real estate agents etc and sew them together to try it out.   It would be wonderful if it helped you.   Please let us know.