“7 lifestyle changes to improve restless leg syndrome”
Having been woken up by what I can only describe as restless body, imagine my surprise when the first new e mail message I saw was about being woken up by restless legs! The e mail was from diabetes.co.uk and the headline was as above. Sceptic that I am I will read on though and summarise in a later post what the advice is.
I am replying to my own posting but have now looked at the seven bits of advice. Why these have come from diabetes.co. Uk is that many people with diabetes also have RLS:
1. Have a warm bath
2. Avoid stimulants like tea or coffee before bed time
3. Do things like word puzzles
4. Have sex
5. Stick to the same bed time
6. Have a leg massage
7. Get moving
These bits of folk lore seem to be trivialising RLS but I guess for some the advice may be useful
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sounds like the advice that might be given by an agony aunt in a teenage girl's magazine!
A distraction at best🙈
I had a great night's sleep last night after having a sports massage for my legs and hips No6!!
Did you do the massage yourself Lapsedrunner, or had a expert do it. ?
I was entirely passive!! (Apart from making a few noises 😂)
I've tried massages to help my legs but 9/10 I end up with it triggering a RL attack and there's nothing relaxing about trying to stay on a massage bed while in the midst of an attack! 
The reason why many diabetics suffer from rls is because their rls is caused by high consumption of sugar, which is also the reason why they're diabetic.
Consuming sugar does not cause diabetes.
Not on its own but the risk of developing diabetes is increased by 25%
You can become diabetic without a necessarily high intake of sugar! I am only too aware that some people have noted improvement with reducing sugar intake and I was one of them. However, high intake of sugar isn't the only reason one develops diabetes. It's simplistic to say that it does.
everydayhealth.com/type-2-d...
If you read what I wrote again I didn't say that all diabetes causes sugar, but that their diabetes was caused by sugar. Maybe I should have written that sugar contributed, rather than caused.
Thanks for the clarification Eryl.
Consuming too much sugar causes Type 2 diabetes. It doesn't cause Type 1 (although obviously it could make it much worse!).
I didn't say that sugar causes 'all' diabetes, but "their diabetes"
I'll have a huge scoop of number 4 with a side of number 4 on a deep bed of number 4.
If I have any RLS after that I might try number 1... While carrying on with number 4.
Really the list should be
1 Hot bath - hotter the better imho
4 and plenty of it
6 leg massage moving to full body massage and on to number 4
7 move - a good walk to stretch the legs... and loosen up for number 4.
Cant see how keeping the same bed time would work..... unless you are getting number 4, in that case it might work. 😜💋
It is just possible that, like looking at the Ten Commandments, some things get more attention than others!
You can only dream of getting that amount of No. 4 
Nope - those dreams died with married life
Violins.
Divorce and remarriage can revitalise your experiences of intimacy. I know a couple of people who even divorced and remarried the same person!
That's not the main reason for my varied marital history but I've discovered it as a side effect.
Oh God no, I'd never give her that out!
… and if you can't get any/enough of No. 4, a good laugh at your post Raffs is worth it's weight in gold. Thank you for making me laugh so much. 
That's the same response I get from my wife when I mention no. 4 - laughter 😲
Living with restless legs .
Restless leg in 3 year old and sleep 
Does this sound like RLS?
Here we go again!
