Hi everyone
I would again be grateful for your help on this wonderful site
I have severe RLS and severe PLMD. I take 1500 mgs gaberpentin and 750 micros clonazepam every night .Normally i wake up twice a night,,twitching away, go for a 30 minutes walk, and, if i am lucky, I can get back to sleep again
But sometimes the twitching and jerking is at a totally different level.
I am jerking around like a puppet on a string. Bending in two and then suddenly straightening up again. Totally oit of control.. My whole body is affected not just my legs. My eyes are tight shut, my legs feel like jelly .I cant really stand up let alone walk, My breath only comes in short sharp bursts
My partner forces me to stand up and supports me as i try and walk.After staggering around for about 20 minutes the hideous jerking normally subsides.
But it is terrifying when it happens.And it has started to happen more frequently.
So i have tried to find the cause. Of course we humans are highly complex creatures and trying to find one single cause is of anything alike RLS or PLMD is probably nonsense.But you have to try
I looked at my food diary.The first thing which became clear is that if i eat a fresh orange , even if I eat it well before my eating deadline of 1900, then i am very likely to get this mad jerking
But I also found that since january i have eaten fresh salmon steaks sauteed in simple butter sauce seven times. Five of these times have been followed that night with really bad jerking.Once afterwards i had some jerking but minor and once I had no ill effects at all
So I think maybe the difference is due to different kinds of salmon.Wild salmon is much better for you than farmed but is much more expensive of course And I buy the cheapest.
David O. Carpenter of the State University of New York at Albany , was one of the authors of the february 2004 Science article on “Global assessment of organic contaminants in in Farmed Salmon”. He said recently that “One should avoid farmed salmon like the plague.”
In his analysis, he considered contamination to be unacceptable if it raises the risk of cancer by more than 1 in 100,000. Using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formulas, he found that staying below that level of risk required limiting farmed salmon consumption to no more than one meal every 1 to 5 months, depending on where the salmon was raised.
He says salmon from Europe is far more contaminated than is salmon from western Canada, the Pacific Northwest, or Chile.
I know fresh salmon is ,for normal people, very good for you.So i dont want to stop eating salmon if it is not causing me problems.
So i would like to ask this expert group; Has anyone else suffered bad PLMD from eating farmed salmon-or am I the only one ?
Thank you for your help