Hi everyone my wife suffers badly with rls, constant felling's of pain hot and burning in her feet, muscle spasms, can this be claimed for.

[josey1706]

she cannot sleep at night, had to give up her job through it, someone must know if she can get some sort of benefit

[josey1706]

Thanks but she is very shy and thinks she is sponging. currently on tramadol ropinrol and paracetamol. I will try and sort this out for her. must ask Dr next time

[josey1706]

thanks very much will try and sort this out, it's been over 3 years now.

[Taragirl]

Hi Josey -

So sorry for your wife's discomfort. I can tell you what I have done if that would help -- after 30 years of living with RLS, I can say that I have it mostly controlled. I used to work with neurologists who would give me lots of PD meds to manage it. What I found was I would need to titrate up and off of them in a couple of months periods and it was all a bit much. I struggled with rebound when I was on them --- each making my symptoms worse. Now I only take neuronton (600 mgs) before bed and importantly, I use L-trptophan. I take 1500 mg (but know some people slowly increase up to 2,500, but I haven't had the need to do this) of it every night. It overrides my symptoms enough to go to sleep. I also have bed time rituals, like bathing very night, and this makes it all doable. the other medicines made me worse. the amino acid I buy at the vitamin shoppe and it works. Hope this helps! Best to you!

[wendy25]

If she not working try Welfare rights, they will advice you luv