Hello all, I have suffered with RLS all my life, from as young as I can remember. However, it has got especially worse over the last 3 years. Every night it would be triggered as soon as I got into bed and tried to sleep. This clearly had a huge knock on effect on the amount and the quality of my sleep and I'd be almost permanently tired and frustrated. I'd take hours to nod off and it would constantly wake me up and then I'd suffer hours more tossing and turning. It has ruined several sets of lovely bed sheets and impacts on my husband's sleep too. It got so bad that eventually, at the end of last year, I decided to visit my GP about it, feeling completely at a loss. Cue a lengthy process of fortnightly blood tests over the next 4-5 months (which threw up a few other things, which made that even more invasive and my RLS almost got side-lined in the process). Then we went into lockdown.
As an aside, I'm very physically active and I workout a lot. Prior to lockdown, I'd have regular remedial massage to help ease my tight and knotty muscles. As I didn't have access to this, my body started to feel incredibly tight and sore and I went searching for some remedies outside stretching and hot epsom salt baths (which I do religiously). I stumbled across these acupuncture mats (specifically the Shakti mat) and read review after review from people it had helped soothe sore muscles but also that it helped stimulate deep and restful sleep! I purchased a mat (for the cost of a massage c£45) and looked forward to unwinding my tight muscles. But in the back of my mind, I also wondered if it might help ease my now chronic RLS...?
All I can say is....WOW! After 37 years of suffering, using my Shakti mat EVERY night for an hour before bed has TRANSFORMED my RLS, my sleep in general and has also helped eased my tight muscles. I would say, in the 4 weeks I have been using this mat, my RLS has improved around 80% if not more. I have had only ONE night when my RLS was bad. I am utterly gobsmacked. I had resigned myself to the fact this was just getting worse and worse and I was probably going to end up going down the line many of you already have, with medication. Sometimes, with no long-term relief and with unfavourable side effects. My friends and family, who know just how badly I suffer with my RLS, are amazed I seem to have found an alternative to medication, that has offered me such a HUGE relief.
I don't know whether this post is allowed. There are a number of these types of prickly mats available to buy online (I chose Shakti based on their ethical business approach and not price point). But I cannot recommend them enough. I thoroughly look forward to my magic mat time each evening and because I've used it regularly, every night, the cumulative effects are benefitting me no end. I don't think I've ever nodded off so quickly, nor slept so deeply and without my RLS causing me any real problems. Don't get me wrong, my RLS has not disappeared, but it by no means causes me the same amount of DAILY grief since I started using the Shakti mat. It's worth it's weight in gold!
Finally some relief!
Relief, finally!!!!
I finally have some relief.
RLS Relief
HELP ME! WWE all night! My arms and legs are waving and slapping all night long. I tear the bed apart, beat myself and my husband. HELP 
