I just had a health care person suggest I research Low Dose Naltrexone for my RLS.
so I’ve been reading on it a bit and have seen cases where it’s helped people. There was even a post on this site, I believe about 2014, regarding this. But I’ve never seen any current discussion on.
Has anyone tried it ? If so, how has it worked?
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Because Pramipexole over excites all your D1 dopamine receptors, driving the worsening of RLS. It breaks through all other treatments.So, if you need LDN to treat severe RLS, there's no point adding other meds until you get off the drug that's causing the severe RLS.
Recently we had a woman who was taking Pramipexole AND Buprenorphine. Of course the severe augmentation symptoms from Pramipexole broke through, and stopped Buprenorphine working.
You can START LDN about 3 weeks before the last dose of Pramipexole and it MIGHT help withdrawal symptoms.
I belong to an LDN Facebook group. The results there are very mixed with some people finding complete RLS relief, others no change, and for others, worsened symptoms (sometimes only temporarily worsened). So the only real way to know is to try it for yourself.
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