Does enzyme Q10 work?

[hairyfairy]

I read on the internet that enzyme Q10 can help with RLS because it helps to normalise dopamine levels in the brain. Has anyone tried it, & if so, did it work?

[Hidden]

not tried it myself, but going to look it up, and see what it does

[ookla]

At the risk of sounding negative, no, in my humble opinion and experience, it doesn't work. I tried Q10 and vitamin d supplements for 6 months and it did nothing for me.

[Hidden in reply to ookla]

Ive tried vit d and iron, neither helped me, and no you dont sound negative to me, if it doesnt work for you then it doesnt, glad for the ones it does help though, i did look it up and on a site i read that they tried it for PD sufferers, but they stopped it as it wasnt shown to be working, but that's PD not RLS, would be nice to get other opinions though.

[ookla in reply to Hidden]

The "sounding negative" thing was a childish reference to another thread I just responded to. I probably shouldn't have written it. Sorry.

[Hidden in reply to ookla]

i hope your not feeling you need to apologise to me ookla, you really dont, i respect everyones opinions, good or bad, we are all individuals, so we cant be expected to agree all the time can we, its human nature after all.

[ldq1997]

I taker 1200 mg daily of CoQ10 for Parkinson'e symptoms and find it very helpful. One of my biggest problems was with constantly feeling exhausted and wanting to sleep during the day but being unable to sleep at night. After diligently taking 1200 mg daily for about 2 -3 three months, I began to notice that my energy level was much better and that I was not feeling exhausted all the time. Also, I sleep better at night, although not as well as I would like to sleep. When I go to bed at night, I am able to go to sleep fairly promptly without taking any sleep medicine, and I sleep at least 4 or 5 hours before I wake up. Four or five hours solid sleep is a real record for me!

There was a study on CoQ10 which reported as follows:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/123...

CONCLUSIONS:

Coenzyme Q10 was safe and well tolerated at dosages of up to 1200 mg/d. Less disability developed in subjects assigned to coenzyme Q10 than in those assigned to placebo, and the benefit was greatest in subjects receiving the highest dosage. Coenzyme Q10 appears to slow the progressive deterioration of function in PD, but these results need to be confirmed in a larger study.

Many of the studies of natural remedies like Coq10 are funded by Big Pharma for the purpose of proving them worthless because they might deter people from purchasing prescription drugs. Therefore I do not necessarily believe them, and it is most encouraging to find one that has even faint praise for a natural remedy, as in the one quoted above.

[Hidden in reply to ldq1997]

hmmm think thats from the site i looked at today

[Hidden in reply to ldq1997]

At one time, my Rheumatologist suggested taking Coq10 to

ward off the nasty side effects of a pill that I was taking.

It worked wonders for that. Don't remember if my RLS was

affected. I doubt it or I would have raved on here about it.

Some of the things suggested by other users of this site

seemed strange and I doubted that any of it worked but

low and behold, some things work very well sparingly. =)

[Hidden]

The study using Coq10 was for PD, not for RLS.

[KellyDBrille in reply to Hidden]

Ya think?