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Case report: A new treatment for RLS. Published online Jan 2024.

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Just found this article on the internet and thought it would interest you:

"We report three patients with restless legs syndrome complicated with severe nephrotic syndrome. After treatment with stellate ganglion block, the symptoms in the restless legs were relieved within 1 month, and the quality of sleep was significantly improved. Our findings suggest that stellate ganglion block has broad promise in the management of restless legs syndrome patients with severe comorbidities. ..."

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ChrisColumbus

Yes, there was some discussion of this at the time:

healthunlocked.com/rlsuk/po...

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Allyp69

Ok..but what is this treatment? Will try to find out more. Anything that does not have harmful side effects ...

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RLSLearner in reply to Allyp69

everything has the potential for side effects. Somewhat left field - but maybe that is what we need - trying something different. From memory it needed to be repeated.

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Kakally

makes sense to me as sympathetic nervous system is to do with ‘fight and flight’ whereas the parasympathetic nervous system is associated with ‘rest and digest ‘ . So that includes sexual arousal, urination, digestion , lacrimation (crying). All of those things can relieve RLS (temporarily). So therefore if you ‘squash’ the sympathetic n.s. by overloading parasympathetic n.s. , it could be imagined to be a tiny and temporary but slightly similar thing to doing a stellar ganglion block…!

Anatomically rather tricky , near 3 major arteries and also only 80% of people actually have a formed stellate ganglion and not a spread out mush of nerves there..

But very exciting!

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