Re: ritalin for RLS?

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In a message dated 2/26/99 9:44:46 PM !!!First Boot!!!, pandm@...

writes:

<< between RLS and ADHD which we have all heard before, but she

said at this clinic the DR is going to try and treat RLS

with Ritalin. Has anybody ever heard of that before? Maybe

it is being done now. She asked me if I had ever tried

Ritalin before, I said no. She said that Ritalin has been

found to help with sleep. >>

Ritalin helps with sleep?

Uh, uh a point of order here.....geez, I though coke kinda like kept you from

sleeping for days, eh?

RAINBOWPED@...

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That would be me there, using the ritalin. I did not take it for my RLS,

but for my ADD. I was however, at one of my calmer phases (in both

ways) while I was taking it. I had to discontinue it for many other

reasons. Sometimes it helps with sleep, sometimes it does not. I would

sometimes get very sleepy in the middle of the day, but still have a

hard time sleeping at night.

My son, who is 14 now took Ritalin from 1st thru 5th grades and had a

terrible sleeping, until he stopped taking Ritalin. i think it is

definitely a drug that loses it's effectiveness after a while.

I certainly would not advise it for everyone to try.

Ninette - 51 - TN

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My 2 cents worth on Ritilin. While working on my Master's degree a few years

back, I spent many

consecutive hours here at the computer. My legs went nutso. Not wanting to

take meds that

would make me sleepy, I took some of my boy's Ritilin. It worked very well. I

also was able to

concentrate better. After all, I had two kids running around the house who were

ADHD! So, I

got my own prescript and began taking it not only for my RLS but for

concentration while I was

in class. A few years ago, I also took it at night out of desparation when I

had no other meds,

but it did inhibit my sleep. It would relax me and my legs, but I couldn't go

to sleep for what

seemed like hours. Also through the years, my boys, now 14 and 15 couldn't take

Ritilin after 3

p.m. or they wouldn't be able to sleep. Fortunately, they have grown out of the

Ritilin, but it

was a blessing when they were younger. My kids felt better about their self

image and were able

to do better in school. They only took it in school.

BTW, both of my boys have RLS. I think there is a definite correlation between

inherited RLS

*and* ADHD. Although I have never been diagnosed ADHD, I *know* I was ADHD as a

child and I had

RLS and my mother had RLS

Hope this helps.

Lindy B. (49) in Southeast Texas

pandm@... wrote:

>

>

> Well I thought I had heard all of the theories there are to

> hear about RLS but I was talking with a friend of mine the

> other day and she is a physician assistant. She went to

> conference in Florida re ADHD. The mentioned the corelation

> between RLS and ADHD which we have all heard before, but she

> said at this clinic the DR is going to try and treat RLS

> with Ritalin. Has anybody ever heard of that before? Maybe

> it is being done now. She asked me if I had ever tried

> Ritalin before, I said no. She said that Ritalin has been

> found to help with sleep. I dont know too much else because

> I had to leave. Hopefully I will see her again soon and

> ask. Did my orientation at the jail today. Another

> grateful moment in my life

>

>

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