Guest guest Posted March 13, 1999 Report Share Posted March 13, 1999 Hi, Dr. Elaty has found that at times tonic water helps an RLS patient; this is what he has to say: POSSIBLE TREATMENTS FOR RLS SYMPTOMS TONIC WATER OR QUININE Tonic water contains small amounts of quinine; quinine also is available by prescription. Thanks to Jodi on posting it at her Web Site even though she has been sick. Dr. Elaty's Treatise on RLS: http://www.mlists.net/judson/Elaty.html Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 1999 Report Share Posted March 13, 1999 Hi, Dr. Elaty has found that at times tonic water helps an RLS patient; this is what he has to say: POSSIBLE TREATMENTS FOR RLS SYMPTOMS TONIC WATER OR QUININE Tonic water contains small amounts of quinine; quinine also is available by prescription. Thanks to Jodi on posting it at her Web Site even though she has been sick. Dr. Elaty's Treatise on RLS: http://www.mlists.net/judson/Elaty.html Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 1999 Report Share Posted March 13, 1999 Hi, Dr. Elaty has found that at times tonic water helps an RLS patient; this is what he has to say: POSSIBLE TREATMENTS FOR RLS SYMPTOMS TONIC WATER OR QUININE Tonic water contains small amounts of quinine; quinine also is available by prescription. Thanks to Jodi on posting it at her Web Site even though she has been sick. Dr. Elaty's Treatise on RLS: http://www.mlists.net/judson/Elaty.html Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 1999 Report Share Posted March 13, 1999 SurSiliImp@... wrote: > POSSIBLE TREATMENTS FOR RLS SYMPTOMS > > TONIC WATER OR QUININE > Tonic water contains small amounts of quinine; quinine also is available by > prescription. > > Thanks to Jodi on posting it at her Web Site even though she has been sick. > Dr. Elaty's Treatise on RLS: http://www.mlists.net/judson/Elaty.html > > Twenty-five years ago when I first had RLS, my GP prescribed a combination of Benadryl and quinine. I don't know whether natural remission kicked in or whether the combination worked but the problem disappeared in about 2 weeks. It has since raised its ugly head. The interesting thing is back then, Benadryl was a prescription drug but quinine was ODC. Now it is reversed (at least here in CA). -- Weasel ---------------------------------- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx AOL Instant Messenger Amphipod38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 1999 Report Share Posted March 13, 1999 For me, Benedryl (generic=diphenhydramine) immediately (within an hour or so) stopped a major flareup of RLS a few years ago. At a high dosage (I dont remember for sure, I think about 200 mg a day, 8 tablets at 25 mg) it kept the RLS at bay for several months. Then it " turned " on me and made the RLS worse so I had to quit. Then we tried the combination of quinine and neurontin. That has lasted 2 years now (knock on wood). I take about 8-16 oz tonic water and 200-300 mg neurontin. I also have prescription for quinine (260 mg of quinine sulfate, tablets) @ one per night if I dont have the tonic water. While the subject of quinine is raised, it reminds me to ask whether anybody knows the AMOUNT of quinine in tonic water. I have gotten as far as looking up the phone numbers/addresses of a couple of the bottlers in the USA but I have not contacted them to ask how much quinine is in their product (and I suspect they wouldn't give the info very readily). Has anybody already got that info? Or does anybody have the chutzpah to wrest it out of the bottlers? At 05:30 PM 3/13/99 -0800, you wrote: > > > Twenty-five years ago when I first had RLS, my GP prescribed a combination of Benadryl and >quinine. I don't know whether natural remission kicked in or whether the combination worked but >the problem disappeared in about 2 weeks. It has since raised its ugly head. > >The interesting thing is back then, Benadryl was a prescription drug but quinine was ODC. Now it >is reversed (at least here in CA). > >-- >Weasel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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