Guest guest Posted April 16, 1999 Report Share Posted April 16, 1999 Hi, I just joined the e-mail group. My husband has had RLS all his life (he vividly remembers having it a child) and was diagnosed about 5 years ago. He is now doing great on Sinemet and Neurontin, and is being seen by Dr. Ehrenberg. However, we just had a baby and I'm finding that there is almost no information on RLS in children, young adults, and pregnancy in Nightwalkers. The only stuff I've found so far is one chapter in the Sleep Thief book. Does anyone out there have small children with RLS? I've seen numbers as high as 50% of kids having RLS if they have a parent with RLS. Are you seeing the same numbers? How do you cope, and how do you teach them to cope? Has anyone else worried about whether or not to go ahead and have a baby because of their chance of getting RLS? We finally decided to just go ahead and do it. Now we want to gather as much information as we can so we can identify and manage RLS in our daughter if she gets it. Thanks, Anita (and Tim), mid-30's, Cambridge,Mass Anita Raj Project Manager GTE Internetworking araj@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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