Sleeping in a swing?

[Sugamama321]

Has anyone ever tried sleeping in a swing? When my rls is bad I rock myself back and forth in my bed. I looked up "rocking beds" (which exist, but cost a fortune) but I'm considering a good, old fashioned hammock swing. Swinging is soothing...maybe it switches on good brain chemicals. Now if I could just find one that swings itself, like a grown up baby swing, lol

[Alex2308]

I read when you rock a baby it sort of knocks her out because of the underdeveloped brain. I am no doctor, but now as far as I know they recommend try and not swing a baby. With a grown up it might work though, only very fast become a habit. And besides a hammock there are so many contraptions to rock it if you wake up because it stopped swinging. Good luck!

[RLSgirl]

when my RLS gets to bad to stay in bed but i'm also too grogy to stand up and walk around properly I head to my lazy boy rocking chair and rock for 20-30 min. till my legs calm down. but I'm using my legs to rock the chair. I don't think it would work without the active participation on my part. It would be interesting to see if just passivily swinging would work.

[Sugamama321 in reply to RLSgirl]

Right now I'm living in an rv in an rv park while we're building on some property... so no place to try it out. But as soon as we get settled, I'm going to give it a whirl. Hoping just the motion would be soorhing. I thought of it after reading about the relaxis pad that "moves for you"...and since I don't have a bajillion dollars to spend on that little device, gotta get creative, lol

[Sugamama321 in reply to Sugamama321]

Oops *soothing

[RLSgirl in reply to Sugamama321]

yeah, I feel ya on the relaxis pad. I can't aford that, especially with little guarantee that it will work. I did find a vibrating massage pad on amazon for about $50 that I tried. I don't know how it compares to the relaxis, but it was somewhat helpful for a mild RLS episode. but not helpful at all when my RLS goes manic. Which is most of the time.

Please update this post when you give it a try and let me know how swinging goes for you!

[Sugamama321 in reply to RLSgirl]

I will! I've also tried th he cheaper massage things...I find the vibration eventually does nothing but irritate me, lol. I've wondered if a "rolling" sensation and not just vibration would be better. I went to a chiropractor once who used those super expensive, whole body massage chairs. It was heavenly. I truly believe if everyone had a massage like that every day crime rates would go way down, lol.

Back when I was a kid even non sleazy hotels had "massage" beds. You'd pop a quarter in and the whole bed would vibrate fo 20 minutes. As kids, we thought it was great fun, lol. I've thought about those beds while in an rls induced 3 am haze many times...