Do you want you doctor to prescribe an opioid instead of DA ?John Hopkins statistics on both.

[Shumbah]

This may help you when requesting an opioid verses the doctor wishing to prescribe DA

hopkinsmedicine.org/neurolo...

I am typing this information direct from John hopkins treatment article.

An estimated 85% to 90 % of patients with RLS will respond very well to opiates.An analysis of drug responses in RLS over a 2 to 10 year period showed that 85 percent of RLS patients who started on methadone were still on it compared to less than 20 percent of those who started on a Dopamine drug. The median starting dose for methadone in the study was 10 mg per day with a range between 2.5 and 20 mg per day.

Thus for over 300 years opiates remained the ONLY truly effective treatment for this disease.

This category of medications includes codiene, hydrocdone ,morphine , hydromorphone , methadone , Buprenorphine and pentazocine.

[67Waterman]

Hi Shumbah - thank you for this. I wonder if you can provide the link to the article itself? With many thanks, Sally

[Shumbah in reply to 67Waterman]

post edited link added

[Jumpey]

Thanks.x

[WideBody]

Shumbah, this is great information, can we have a link?

[Shumbah in reply to WideBody]

post edited link added

[Reb0013]

Hi Shumbah, I'm trying to see the link to the article as well but it looks like it was edited out.

[Shumbah in reply to Reb0013]

click on the blue writing

[Reb0013 in reply to Shumbah]

Apparently it was edited out by the administrator because it doesn't show any longer.

I have not edited anything out on this thread, Reb0013 - Kaarina

[Shumbah]

did you get it

I can see it on my screen