My sympathies to any and all fellows sufferers of RLS/RLMD. I've tried it all. The juice and vinegar thing only gave me a case of indigestion that I wrote home ot Mom about. Stretching my legs as suggested only made the RLS worse.
I hate taking pills.I'll dodge medication at any, and every, given opportunity - EXCEPT when it comes to my RLS/RLMD - I take it religiously.
I had too many years of living sleep deprived. I was thought to be neurotic, incomeptant, oh god, the list goes on and on and on - when the only problem was that I just needed a good nights sleep.
I was dragged to a sleep therapist by my husband (after he was diagnosed with sleep apnea), took the tests, got the diagnosis and fought it every inch of the way. I hated the idea that I couldn't do the simplest thing in the world, something everyone else could do with no effort - sleep. Time goes on, and we all have to grow up and face facts.
I still think lopng and hard before taking an advil for a backache, but come bedtime I never, NEVER miss my klonopin. I know that without it it's just gonna be another one of those sleepless nights, its the only thing between me and chronic exhaustion.
And exhaustion is a lousy lifestyle.
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