this is a light hearted post about my latest cure.......yesterday. I was in the wildest part of my garden intending to strim away a patch of nettles with my new strimmer.
I decided to wear my old shorts and a T shirt because it gets a bit messy. It didn't take long to realise that the shorts were a mistake because nettle fragments sting when they hit your legs, I thought it was just bits hitting me at speed but it was mostly stingers but being an idiot I carried on.
Normally wasp stings and nettles don't bother me too much but when I had finished and hosed all the green stuff off my legs they were tingling like mad, by 7 pm that had stopped but guess what..........yes you are all way ahead of me, no RLS last night.
I am not sure if I should try it again, any ideas guys?
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This is quite interesting!!! I always find that if i can somehow create an overide to the RLS such as scratching like mad, shaving my legs, rubbing with exfoliating gloves..I can get relief for at least a while. Maybe the stingers work in the same way and the lady who uses dove soap, maybe the soap is tightening the skin and affecting the nerves a bit....mmmmm interesting!!!
Ok guys I will leave the research upto you.......lol
A pain a day keeps the RLS away.
I've found the RLS vanishes when I have unrelated pain. I wondered if it is to do with endorphins.
When I've been ill I've not had the RLS
You know when you get that got to be really active to stop the jumps and twinge? Well I have slapped myself across the face and found it helped. The wife refuses to do it for me.
Oh, question. Do masochists or self-harmers suffer from RLS?
My light hearted post has cause a storm of humour , must do it more often ...........
Re your lip clamp, we do this to horses to calm them and make them easier to handle its called a Twitch, also if you would want to disable an attacker a thumb jabbed there will do the trick, though I HAVNT tried it on a horse........lol
I have heard of people who when they have the flu, they seem to be RLS free, its as if the brain is using its signals to fight the virus, hence leaving the RLS alone. My theory, nothing set in stone.
Exactly right, and I can also attest to the fact that when many people have migraines, the RLS is quiet.. My personal experience says that is true also, at least for some.
RLS humour, I suggest an on site competition for all the variations that the letters RLS can stand for, in my case it will be "Really Lazy Sod" so I will start off with Righteously Lamentable Serendipity. I do apologise to the Admin watch dogs if I have infringed the rules, I am willing to accept a slap as long as its with the Dove Nettle cream.....:-))
Stinging Nettle is a powerful anti-inflammatory and also a natural anti-histamine (RLSers tend to have higher than normal histamine levels .... this often contributes to the racing mind at night). I believe this is why you experienced relief.
read that web site with an open mind. This guy calls himself on natural News the "Health Ranger" and he is extremely biased against many things, including if RLS is "real: or not. Check it out. He is not a health professional and it is classified as an :"opinion page" and says so on this web site, so just be careful when reading info on this web site. I have researched this guy thoroughly over the past couple of years. FYI As usual, make up your own mind, but that is my opinion. he is also connected with a doctor who lost her license and she says , and I quote, "IF you would get your last a**es out of your recliner , you would not have RLS". IF only we COULD lay around in our recliners, and we all know that is impossible. I have the court papers for the "doctor", and can prove everything I say. So, read it with caution, is all I am saying.
Oh of course, no need to apologise ,pavements are footpaths here, pants here are worn under pants there.
my wife is ultra sensitive to wasp stings, only a month ago she got stung on the hand and despite the best medical care the poor wasp died......lol......sorry I can't help it.
I had to rush home from work some 30 miles because I couldn't get her on the phone, I was calling the ambulance as I left work and I still got home before our emergency services got there. She looked horrible, eyes shut face all puffy her hand looked like a rubber glove that had been blown up, but a quick jab and she was ok.
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So glad to have found this forum!
Tried everything and have found relief
May have RLS - Just got ferritin reading
Have I or haven't I? 
Do I really have RLS?
