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[sargrith]

Something happened to my 57 years of taking imiprimine that gave me a severe bought of RSL but the symptoms affected my back. it was so bad that I stopped the imiprimine immediately the RSL stopped, but of course I had the agony of the withdrawal for weeks. At least now that I'm on another medication the RSL has stopped

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Sorry to hear about this. SSRI antidepressants are well documented as making RLS worse. Tricyclic antidepreesants are also known to make it worse.

There are only a very small number of antidepressants that don't make it worse.

This poses two questions

1) Did the imipramine cause your symptoms or make them worse?

2) Are the RLS symptoims related at all to imipramine?

1) This is significant because if the imipramine caused the symptoms then you may not have primary RLS and removing the cause may relieve the symptoms. This is what appears to have happened and the RLS may be secondary.

If the imipramine simply made a pre-existing RLS worse, then you may have primary RLS. This means that the RLS is likely to recur and almost any antidepressant can trigger it.

Unfortunately, even if the RLS is secondary, as one antidepressant caused it, then another may. It's a promising sign that the symptoms have now stopped.

I wonder what medication you're now taking.

2) Since you've apparently being taking imipramine for 57 years, then it is surprising that it has either caused RLS or made it worse. It would seem that this would have happened long ago.

This is something I usually ask who appear in this forum, but are you sure you have RLS?

Saying the RLS is affecting your back seems unlikely. I only ask because your symptoms may be something else which shoudn't perhaps be ignored. I believe you have a history of neuropathy.

If you wish you can check your symptoms against the RLS diagnostic criteria

Here's a link

irlssg.org/diagnostic-criteria