I started posting on this forum 2 years ago but it is many months since I last posted so I wanted to tell you what is proving to be a happy ending to my long RLS tale of woe.
I've had RLS all my life (inherited from my father) and for many years it was just an occasional thing but when I got old it became a regular, serious, night-time problem. As a lifelong natural health fanatic, I searched and experimented with all kinds of herbs and vitamins and so on, in the hope of finding a natural remedy that worked. Nothing did.
Eventually, in desperation. I let the doctor prescribe me Gabapentin and that did seem to help but I hated the side effects so I stopped taking it again (and the withdrawal was also very unpleasant.)
I had heard that cannabis works well for RLS but being in England, where it is illegal, and not wanting to break the law, I didn't try to get any. I did try CBD oil, which is legal, but that didn't help at all.
Last October, at the age of 86, I went to visit my daughter in Boston, USA, where cannabis is now legal and freely available, and (much to the amusement of my adult grandchildren) I bought some THC gummies and had one each night at bedtime. They worked brilliantly!
So as soon as I got home again I asked my GP to refer me to a medical cannabis clinic, which he obligingly did. I am now a registered medical cannabis patient. I have to have an online appointment at the MyAccess clinic (myaccessclinics.co.uk/) every three months (cost £50) and their dispensary sends me, through the post, a three-month supply of cannabis oil (cost £170). I take just 0.6 of a ml at bedtime and that is enough to help me sleep peacefully every night, RLS-free.
Yes, it is expensive, but no more so than smoking cigarettes or running a car, neither of which I do. And I feel as though I have my life back again.
Blessings to all.