Happy New Year to all.

[Danni54]

Happy New Year to all of you and thank you SO much to all of you who have helped and supported me for the last few month's. It means so much to me . The people on this forum are amazing. I have been getting more and more desperate and the pain in my calves and toes is unbearable at times. Today is the 3rd full day of the Buprenorphine patch and I think that it's beginning to help but I'm reserving judgement till the morning! Wishing you all a better and happier New Year.Love and best wishes to all,

Danni x

[Madlegs1]

Happy New year to you.

May it all be well here on out.

[Ticki]

Happy New Year to you too.💜

[Ducatidave]

My legs started to feel tense and sort of nervous and would drastically spoil my sleep and also spoil times when I had to sit still ie Theatre or eating a meal out. I would also ‘kick out’ at night when asleep…. When I eventually got to sleep !!!

My top front of my legs would also seem to get cold. I could almost draw a line around the area affected.

I eventually found out the I had RLS and also the kicking in bed was Involuntary Leg Movements (ILM). My wife would be black and blue !!!!!!

Good news is that I knew what I had but how could I stop this….

I started a contract in Kuwait and the food I ate was mainly all processed and without knowing I was consuming more salt than I should..

My RLS was very, very bad and my sleep was affecting my work and my mental health.. well… I just felt tired and not ‘sharp’ in work. I was getting desperate….

I googled RLS and came across someone in the States saying they had the solution and for $19.99 I received an e book with ‘The fix’.

It only really needed to be an e mail back because across the second page in massive letters was the word SALT and the message was Reduce or Cut out totally.

The book advised to go ‘cold turkey’ with no salt for five days so I ate eggs and chicken breast cooked without salt… WOW I felt alive and active and slept better than I had for ages. I never thought that salt would make so much difference to me.

I would advise this cold turkey method as it will show you how drastic it is and you should feel better. The taste buds in your mouth will also start to ‘come alive’ as salt is actually harming them.. I think.

Apparently, although we have a daily intact amount of salt we never should add salt only get the salt from natural means. Some food has salt naturally. Salt was introduced into our diet due to the fact it preserved meats etc…..so it’s a man made introduction.

So I now to try to prevent RLS

1.Stay away (or try) salt in foods or eat foods with reduced salt

2.Reduce my caffeine intake … never after 16.00 (this includes tea also)

3.Reduce Chocolate and never (if I can help it) in the afternoon

If I have not been so careful or could not help it and start to get RLS I

1.Heat a bean bag in the microwave to quite hot and place it on my legs or in between my legs. It’s got to be hot enough that you certainly know that you’ve had heat there.

2.I use my fists (knuckles) to bang on my legs in the area that I have found to be cold and its strange, but I can feel when I hit the spot, so I am quite hard on the area and that seems to move the circulation of …. I don’t know.. Blood or nerves but it seems to free up the anxiety in my legs.

3.Sometimes if away from home and the hot bean bag, I run a hot shower and concentrate the hot jets on my legs.

Now. The above is what I think, experienced and what I am doing. It works for me and now I know I feel I am in control but not fully as sometimes I’ll eat something with salt in which I can not help but then I will probably end up using the ‘hitting’ method of relief.

Hope this helps

[Merny5]

thank you Danni54 and happy new year to you. I bet the Buprenorphine patch will work. Fingers crossed for you. Best to you in 24!