Re: RLS: A possible technique for mild symptoms?

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I have also found this to work during a mild case, but I tighten my stomach.

I figure, why not get some good out of RLS, the old stomach could always use

more work.

Tom 50, near Cincy

RLS: A possible technique for mild symptoms?

>From: JNTelford@...

>

>I have not posted anything before and, going by the postings I've read, I

>only have a very mild form of RLS. But very often I do have sensations in

my

>legs when I go to bed and at other times with the compulsion to move them

and

>they often twitch about every twenty seconds. So much for the background.

>

>What I have found is that if, when one of these 20-second " waves " starts to

>build up, I tense my arms and, if I'm lying on my back, dig my elbows into

>the bed, the urge to twitch subsides! If I keep doing this as each " wave "

>rises, and if the RLS isn't too bad that night, then I get to sleep faster

>than I otherwise would. Tensing the arms also helps when the RLS comes on

>while sitting in a chair in the evening.

>

>I tried this because I read in the RLS literature that sometimes it might

be

>the result of a dopamine imbalance. My wife has Parkinsons disease and so

I

>learnt about dopamine and how it is deficient in PD sufferers. If RLS is

>caused by too much dopamine at certain times, especially when the body is

>supposed to be winding down ready for sleep, then I figured that moving

parts

>of the body other than the legs might help to use it up. And for me this

>does seem to work! I feel sure it won't help much for serious RLS, but has

>anyone with mild symptoms tried it?

>

>

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,

I have tensed everything I have, frontways, backways, sideways....up, down

and all around.......

I used to tense my whole body stiff as a board in bed for as long as I could.

Tensing is good....it tightens the muscle and keeps it from moving.......but

when it's a bad attack, it doesn't last long. I can't stay tensed!

Do whatever you can for as long as you can........

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Connie