I am currently on 3 mg Roprinrole , but also have arthritis in my knee.
I can normally stand the pain in my knee, unless I get a bad attack of Rls. The pain then becomes very intense and shoots up my whole thigh, making my tendons tight and very painful.
Does anyone else have a similar situation ?
yes - I take that doseage - recently taking 4mg of modified release - but swapped down to 3mg pd with 1mg of clonazepam. Cramp is a side effect that occurs with Ripinirole - I have had terrible attacks of tendon tightening in the right leg upper thigh. I also suffer arthritis but don't think that contributes to the tendon tightening. I have reduced the incidents by taking daily a multi vitamin tablet and using Deep heat rub when the tendon becomes tender before it tightens.
I also do leg stretching exercises that help to keep the tendons from tightening your GP should be able to show these to you.
Hope that you find the above helpful
I had a problem with my knees for a long time. I usually sit at a desk all day long and I had to keep my legs crossed ("indian style" - sorry, I don't know how else to explain the position) all day long to get some sort of comfort for them... and my knees being in that position for so long day after day started to make them hurt. The knee pain is what originally brought me to the doctor. And he asked: "why don't you stop sitting like that?" And I told him I can't. I told him my legs hurt and ache and throb all day long and I have to keep moving them and I can't just keep my feet flat on the floor and my legs straight, I have to keep moving my legs into different positions or keep them crossed and flex? my muscles to soothe them. He asked if my legs did that at night, too. And I told him my legs do it whenever I'm sitting still - during the day at work, at night on the couch, or in bed trying to sleep. And he was like: "Oh, you have RLS." So, in a way, I guess I have a similar situation. But I think it was more my posture that was causing all my knee pain. My knees have gotten better now that I've been taking RLS meds and don't spend *as much* time crossing my legs that way.
No sleep or poor sleep quality makes our pains elsewhere
hurt more. It's a fact so hopefully you will get some good
pain medicine that will take care of both.
I had my knee replaced a little over a year ago. Best gift that
I ever gave to myself was a new knee. Good luck with the
doctor appointments. Keep us posted.
Hi Yikes - As a follow-up to your second paragraph, I have a lady friend of 58 who has been told that there is nothing that can be done for her knee problem of the lower layer of cartilage being damaged beyond repair. Was this your problem or was it damage to another part of your knee? Thanks in advance for your reply!
total knee replacement triggering RLS
RLS worse after knee replacement 
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RLS and heat
