Best Thing You'll Read Today (a story of hope and wonder)

[Popsinlv]

I am a 65 year old male that has suffered with bad to worse RLS for over a decade. I was prescribed many different drugs (with zero relief) before finding that tramadol worked pretty well. Due to what doctors would prescribe, I've used it alone, and/or with pramipexole for many years with varying results and many side effects. Eventually, my symptoms became intolerable, and while looking for answers, I came across this forum, for which I am eternally grateful, as I learned about both augmentation and buprenorphine. I am now taking just 2mg of buprenorphine a day, as opposed to .50 tramadol and .25 pramipexole (each 3 times a day), and I feel fantastic!

BUT WAIT! This is where the story gets really interesting. There were several days between the time I was prescribed (reluctantly) the buprenorphine, and actually getting it filled. I was feeling horrible and still desperately looking for relief. The thought of hypnosis entered my mind, and a google search brought me to unk.com (Uncommon Knowledge). They had an audio hypnosis download for RLS. Desperate to try just about anything, I purchased it, as well as a recommended 2nd Brain Massage audio for somewhere around $20.00 total. While I was expecting few, if any, results, after listening to just the Brain Massage download, I was feeling much better, and decided to not take any meds that night. I slept well, and felt unbelievably good the next day. Out of fear of withdrawal, I took a single dose of both the tramadol and pramipexole the next day. Those were the last meds I took until a 2mg dose of buprenorphine several days later. That was 3 weeks ago, and I have continued to take that same small dose daily. I continue listening to the hypnosis audios, and will experiment with taking no meds in the near future, but for now, I'm just enjoying my newfound gift of feeling normal, something I had little hope for just weeks ago.

STILL MORE! About 2 weeks before I came across the hypnosis downloads, a cousin of my wife (and her husband) visited us. He is a MD/Christian evangelist who's spent several years in Angola, Africa. As I had been feeling really bad for several weeks, I took the unusual step of asking him to pray for me. He laid hands on me and prayed for several minutes. While I didn't experience any physical heeling at the time, I mention this because I am unsure of exactly has led to the good health I am experiencing. Was it the hypnosis, God, the buprenorphine, or as I felt good without experiencing any withdrawal, some combination of all three? The bottom line is that there is still hope for everyone out there suffering. Keep trying, and don't give in.

[Joolsg]

Buprenorphine is miraculous for many of us.Andy Berkowski's study confirms how effective it is.

2mg is regarded as a high dose here in the UK. We can get lower dose pills, starting at 0.2mg.

It's great that it has helped you too.

[Simkin]

Laying on of hands did not work for me but have not tried hypnosis.Low dose buprenorphine works a treat for me (thank you yet again, Jules!).

I think the advice I would give to everyone is to explore every avenue.

What works for one may not necessarily work for another.

[Marzipana]

For whatever has helped you, praise God!

[ucdailoi-no-1]

HAHAHAHAHA

[LanaCSR]

Good morning. I left you a PM yesterday asking if you could help me find those RLS hypnosis and brain massage audios because when I went to that website you posted I was unable to find anything about RLS. Can you please help? Or if anybody else in here has searched and found them, can you please post it in here on what you typed in the search bar to locate them I would greatly appreciate it!

[Popsinlv in reply to LanaCSR]

Good Morning Lana. The website is hypnosisdownloads.com. I just went to the site to double check. You need to enter restless leg syndrome (as opposed to RLS). This link might also take you there. hypnosisdownloads.com/healt...? Please let me know if this works for you. I can't describe how good I've felt the last few weeks, and while I won't downplay the roll that buprenorphine is now playing, I had found complete relief for several days before I started taking it (which has never happened before), with the hypnosis audios the only change in my life.