Experiences with

Down's syndrome

A few things I have read - I wonder if people have noticed a difference taking aspartame out of their diet and adding Mucuna Prurients. I personally avoid artificial sweeteners but have not tried Mucuna. "Aspartame is a synthetic, laboratory concocted, genetically modified, sugar-replacement nightmare

I have been on this drug since 2004. My mother, aunt and uncle have had it also, so runs in my family. About 1.5 years ago I mentioned to my doctor that the dose of .50 was no longer working, so he increased it to 1 mg. About a year ago, i noticed my RLS hitting earlier in the evening, so I started

So after 4 years and multiple attempts with gonal f, an operation and a misscarraige we had a consultation today with the Dr after I over responded (again) this round. The Dr said we could either try a couple more rounds of ovulation induction seeing as it has worked once or we could start the IVF journey

I know I keep banging on about hair, and sorry about that but its important to me I was worried about meds and losing hair, then I read steroids made this womans hair come out and it didn't grow back :O( so now worried about steroids so can I talk about hair, just hair on steroids and all the meds and

Had DENNY'S CRANBERRY APPLE CHICKEN SALAD Grilled seasoned chicken breast, glazed pecans, apple slices and dried cranberries atop a bed of crisp spring mix. I didn't feel I was missing out as it was delicious and for pudding I had a waffle syrup and strawberries so I really enjoyed it even though

Here I am again despite 0.18 mg of Pramipexole , to paracodeine 600 mg of paracetamol /40mg codeine, these are prescription meds for my spine and I usually only take one, I am still awake at 05.25 am. I’m so sick of this leg twitching . My dr says I am not to increase my dose of Pramipexole and kind

Ok so im new to this and dont really have any idea what to write. Iv been diagnosed with fibro and have suffered for years to get to this point, i also have pelvic congestion syndrome and endo. Suppose i just feel so alone, feels like no one understands the pain im in or that its all in my head. Everyday

Hi Runners A pretty eventful run yesterday and nothing to do with a PB! Although it might be a PB in the amount of obstacles and things that kept NOT going according to the plan. SaskieAllieCat had me musing about my C25K journey so far. I thought I would share my thinking about my not so great run,

Hi Guys hope you are as well as can be.Just a query ,I’ve got to have my Hernia fixed and after seeing the report on the Victoria Derbyshire program this op can leave you very disabled apparently upto 30% of patients are left in a bad way. Has anyone had this op not using mesh if so please let me know

Hi, Has anyone used letrozole instead of clomid for ovulation induction with any success? I’m due to start on my next cycle. Thanks xx

I am currently not on anything for RLS. Still struggling with withdrawal from pramipexole. It’s been going on for months. I went to a sleep specialist who’s only plan would include a DA. I told him I cannot take DAs since I get terrible side effects, both while on the drug and after withdrawal. He

Since being diagnosed with macular degeneration recently I have been taking a supplement containing lutein. It also contains zinc. I seem to remember hearing/seeing something about zinc being contraindicated for taking when using predisolone for pmr. I have pmrgca, into third year, down, at second attempt

After suffering with Raynaud’s for a couple of years I finally saw a rheumatologist about 6 weeks ago. Blood tests reveal that I am anticentromere antibody positive with Systemic Sclerosis, which I understand used to be called CREST Syndrome. She has organised a whole host of further tests, bloods, X-rays

I have mentioned previously that my neurologist wanted me to come off Tramadol. I was uncertain about this but I have had a go. Starting with 200mg I took 0.25 less the first week and I was relatively ok. The second week was a different story! Poor sleep, pain and legs on the go. Suffice to say I am

Hello, my RLS started 4years go after taking a course of antidepressants'. I took myself of them but unfortunately, my RLS stayed with me. I also get it on my arms and chest. Never have it in both legs or arms at the same time but it can easily switch from limb to limb on one day. I lost alot of sleep

It seems like most people have restless legs syndrome, I have restless syndrome. Every night I take Requip 3, and during the day I take requip 1 of my toes twitching. when I go somewhere overnight and forget to put my requip in, that night my toes do their twitching and then they start hurting

We had an appointment today with the nurse in our clinic. We have decided to go with the CGT screening and will hopefully have it done in Spain when we go in Sept for my partner to 'deposit' his sample. The nurse thinks it could be cheaper over there 👍 My partner needs his blood tests to have been done

As I awaken every morning around 4am I immediately go to this site in an attempt to read everything and anything I can to help me with this awful disorder. Thank you so much for all the helpful info. It has given me some tools to hopefully get a few hours of sleep here and there. I thought things were

Hi everyone, As promised an update on my second opinion. In case you didn’t see it on the original thread, my GP was more than happy to do a second referral, she said she would have suggested it if I hadn’t of done anyway. So I decided to go private as I wanted to make sure I saw the right person and

Just wondered if someone can give me some advice, I have rls and have been usi g pramipexole 88 mg tabs since 2013, I am upto 4 tabs a night, the drug hasn't really worked for a while, so went to go, advised too come off them and reduce my dosage over several days, which I have, I've now been prescribed