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A letter in the Mail on Sunday today about RLS

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Out of interest I see that a reader of the MOS has written to Dr Ellie Cannon saying they suffer from rls & they take ropinerole & pramipexole but these drugs do not seem to help.Dr Ellie does mention iron deficiency & gabapentin & pregablin & I see Dr Ellie also says "a growing number of drugs are prescribed for rls including pramipexole & ropinerole" & she also says "doctors do not fully understand it".

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Madlegs1

May the Almighty of Heaven and Earth and the stars in between and the Divils down below strike all ignorant doctors with the full blown fizzies.

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SueJohnson in reply toMadlegs1

My laugh for the day 😀😀😀

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J_J_758 in reply toMadlegs1

😂

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Simkin in reply toMadlegs1

Madlegs1 you are a scream!!!

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Spurdog1 in reply toMadlegs1

Naughty naughty

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Kakally in reply toMadlegs1

Couldn’t have put it better myself 🤣🤣🤣

But sooooooo serious/dire/disgraceful and heartbreaking too

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AmyMac5 in reply toMadlegs1

My brain decided to read that in an Irish accent 😂

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Madlegs1 in reply toAmyMac5

Wow-- I just tried it and it sounds brilliant!!💚☘️☘️☘️

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Littlegran in reply toMadlegs1

AMEN

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rls-insomniac

🫣 And that my friends is what we're having to deal with day in, and day out. Battling with such ignorance from the medical profession!

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Simkin in reply torls-insomniac

Quite!

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Madlegs1

Thank you all!💚💚💚

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50568789

Who is taking these people to task? Are they being put to rights by an official body? To stop them keep on repeating themselves.

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Allyp69

I'm 77...would love to see a total cure for RLS before I die!

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Simkin in reply toAllyp69

I was glad to have all your comments about the letter re rls o the Mail on Sunday's doctor.We are all 100 per cent on the same page.

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