Restless leg (possible) relief

[Bizet]

Suffered with rls for 25 years. Started 3 weeks before my son was born and then 12 years later when I was pregnant with my daughter it started 4 months in. hand on heart didn't sleep until she was born. Since then its been constant. I am lucky in that I don't get the pain that a lot of people do, and it tends to be at night when i settle down to sleep, but I sure get the creeping crawling inside the skin. Impossible to try to describe to non sufferers. I tend to get it in my right leg most nights but on a bad night, I get it in both. impossible to keep still that creeping feeling running up and down like ants crawling inside uour skin.

Years ago I read somewhere that aspirin can help and for me aspirin is a godsend. Doesn't always work and I only take it when I have an episode which at the moment is most nights, but 8 times out of 10 it works and quite quickly too.

I totally identify with the utter exhaustion that a really bad episode can leave one with. The crying from exhaustion and having to go to work to do a days or weeks work on no sleep.

I would definitely recommend trying aspirin. Low dose when having an episode. I know it won't work for everyone but it is worth a ho. Good luck

[Dasymoo]

I will try anything

Thank you x

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I suppose Aspirin is also a pain killer as well as being a blood thinner and anti inflammatory and since RLS is so uncomfortable, even without pain ( I don't have pain either ) I sort of suspect it must travel down pain fibres, but if it's effective I'm surprised that it isn't known about by the specialists - unless of course it's not been thought about as to solve this we need to think out of the box. I take codeine 30mg most nights, but again not as a prevention but once it has kicked in and I can't get it to switch off. Managed without last night as still have the beneficial effect of a recent illness with fever ( recent post about this ). Codeine ( opiate ) effect though is known about

Anyone else found Aspirin works? Of course we'll have to watch iron levels as aspirin can cause some bleeding from the gut in some

[involuntarydancer]

I am taking the platelet inhibitor dipyridamole (persantin) for my rls following a paper and small study published last year. I am very pleased with the results (I have 3 detailed posts - put ‘dipyridamole’ in the search bar). It’s not the same as aspirin but they perform similar functions. However it is the adenosine in dipyridamole that is useful for rls and I’m not sure that’s an active ingredient in aspirin. I know I’m not supposed to take aspirin at the same time as dipyridamole.