Positive aspects

[hausbauer]

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First of all I am sure to make mistakes in the English language. Sorry.

The above link refers to a German Professor of Chemistry - Dr. Claudia Friesen. Maybe some of you have heard of her. I hadn't so far. A few days ago she was on Austrian TV about her Research on Methadone. She found by chance that Methadone seems to shrink or eliminate cancer cells and chemotherapy is not kicked out of the bad cell - as is often the case she says. 53000 People have signed petition in Germany for big studies to be made. The pharma Industry does not seem to be very interested since Methadone is very cheap in comparison to cancer medication. But the German Government seems to be alert now.

In any case for us there are may be two goodies in the package. Dr. B. seems to favour Methadone. I have not tried it, but keep it in mind.

Second positive aspect: I have bought a book called "Gut leben with Restless Legs". Meaning "A good life with RLS" by Dr. Cornelia Goesmann, a GP and specialist for RLS and - important - she herself has RLS. She has many RLS patients and writes that as far as she can observe from her patients: they are generally healthier than the average of the population and have less life threatening illnesses, cancer and some more. In her introduction to the book she writes: "Sie können also mit ihrem RLS sehr alt werden" (You have a good chance of reaching a quite old age with RLS."

Although this is an aspect I have not yet heard about, lets think positive. These are the good news of today

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GREAT, the suffering keeps on going. I think I'd prefer a shorter life without the RLS.

[Graham3196]

You don't really live longer but it sure feels like it because you really get 24 hours per day!

[hausbauer in reply to Graham3196]

to the Point :-))

[Graham3196]

Thanks for posting this. I am usually surprised to find that RLS is felt by people of all sorts of backgrounds. It makes me wonder if the Nepalese or Chinese didn't cure this 10 generations ago. I don't suppose anyone in the forum knows what "restless legs" looks like in Chinese?

[LotteM in reply to Graham3196]

Graham, you mean how it is written? I can ask many of the Chinese students around here at the uni.

Or do you want to know about incidence of RLS in China? No specific data, as far as I know, but in a 2017 review there is a figure for Asia. Can’t recall.

[Graham3196 in reply to LotteM]

Thanks. I was interested in knowing the word in Characters I have a partner in China and I thought I would ask him if he knows a doctor or other medical expert and see what treatment they might have there. The person would need to know the disease in Chinese rather than just provide a transliteration of english to characters.

I think I saw a reference to it being called the Chinese word for "the shakes" but I don't know if the source of that knew enough to be sure the shakes wasn't Parkinson's Disease. It might be a lead worth following. Do you have any Chinese medical researchers?

Thanks.

[LotteM in reply to Graham3196]

I am at the biology department. And I went to China last year for a work visit. I’ll around. Remind me if I forget.