Restless Leg Syndrome

[XmasCarol52]

This is another problem I have it will hit me like once every month I do take requipt for it but just last night i took three of them and I was up all night again.The doctor wont for some reason increase it,She says she wants me to go to my primary doctor to have it checked out.I didn't know that restless leg can be a big problem I can tell you one thing when I get it all I do is jerk my legs and arms especially my right side,I wonder why only my right.She said they can do some kind of test.Just what I need test.I have to do a blood test which is bad enough but with depakote they have to check your liver.I know she is checking my sugar to ugh I never had a shrink check my sugar oh great just what I need to have to go to my regular doctor. She may get mad that I never made an appointment with mine but she should realize that with agoraphobia you just cant get up and leave the house whenever you want.Restless leg is awful I can remember one time I never had anything to take for it at all. Always seems to happen at night just when you get all covered up and try to relax this happens and lately when it happens i get a strange smell kind of like paint and I cannot stand the smell of paint it makes me gag and i usually end up coughing up my stomach,What i mean about that is the area around my heart or close to it,feels full then I get a tickle in there makes me cough so hard i start to gag,but half of the time nothing comes up,not that I want it to.I just dont get why every single time i get restless leg I get sick physically. Restless leg is worse then the anxieties themselves... HOw do you cope.I have tried to tighten up my muscles and deep breathing but it isn't working.Ps where is everybody ,

 

[janemariesayed]

sometimes I get this when I'm sleeping and I just can't keep my leg still. It really annoys me because it disturbs my sleep. I don't know what causes it but I never thought that it should be a thing that would send me to the doctor. It sounds like you've been advised to go and see your own doctor, so I would go and see him and bring up all these points to him. He will be able to get an overall picture and understand what it is he needs to do to help you.

 

[XmasCarol52]

It feels like you want to jump out of your own skin and with me it effects me from below my knees down to my toes like it feels there is to much adrenaline going through my body.Isn't it an awful feeling and when u try to relax you cannot.I did ask the doctor why it seems to happen only at night and she told me it was because I am lying down,it is true that is when it does hit you but i have enough anxieties i don't need this

 

[janemariesayed]

It is true, that when you are lying down your body starts to relax. I think that is when the involuntary leg movements start to take place. It annoys me when it happens to me as I could be just dropping off to sleep and then I wake myself up by keep moving my legs. All this time that it has been happening and I never realised that it could be down to my mental illness!

 

[XmasCarol52]

It is just plain awful I have to twitch and twitch and twitch i say it is a feeling like you want to jump out of your own skin..sometimes I cannot walk when i feel like that to shaky.

 

[JCP]

I get this when I'm going through kratom withdrawals, very annoying

 

[XmasCarol52]

It is terrible and with me i feel it from below the knee down to my toes,i think i will need one now too,I try kicking it away but that doesn't help i wonder if they have anything for restless arms or for me that would be the entire body..

 

[janemariesayed]

Have you ever wondered if it may be the pills that you are taking @Concernedgal perhaps you could talk to your doctor and see if the symptoms you are having are anything to do with your medication? If it is he could shift you over to take something else where you won't be suffering as you are now.

 

[Concernedgal]

I'm currently not under treatment. Not prescription drug treatment anyway. Dosent work. I see the doctor again today though.

 

[XmasCarol52]

My primary doctor called me she wanted me to come in for May i kept telling her June,god why do these people not listen,I have to have my blood work dne ugh that is two blood works I have to have done,I dont want to go but it is like a year since i last went,well my shrink wanted me to go and see her anyway.I am not happy about it ,why cant these doctors listen to what we have to say I cannot do two appointments in one month that woul d be to much for me,maybe i can lose some more pounds,I know one thing my bp will be high it always is

 

[janemariesayed]

If your shrink thinks that it is best for you to go then as much as it affects you, you really should go. Treat it like you normally do @XmasCarol52 and reward yourself afterwards with a Dunkin Doughnut trip! Maybe your appointment has to be in May rather than June. I'm not sure why they would not have listened to you but perhaps they had no appointments left for June. Or maybe there is another reason why your appointment has to be in May rather than June. Either way, relax and think to yourself that you have another reward day to look forward to.

 

[XmasCarol52]

Well it turns out I did make an appointment for the beginning in June as we speak now my legs feel like jelly and I will tell her about this.All i wanted was a different pills for it but they never give it to me.Why give us meds when they don't even work I just took a pill i wonder if i am having those seizure i had when i fell years ago they had to put me o inderol cause i couldn't stop shaking it was so bad i couldnt even hold my ultensils they had to make special ones for me,i think to me getting only 2 hours of sleep at night can be causing this problem to but how can u sleep if you have that restless leg feeling.. I feel like i have to much adrenaline in me

 

[janemariesayed]

What if you are shaking because of lack of sleep? I have had a look on the net to see if there is anything that could advise you about your leg.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/natural-medicine/home-remedies/home-remedies-for-restless-legs-syndrome.htm

It is an interesting list of natural things you can do at home to relieve the restless legs at night.

Do you have cold feet? It says that some people who suffer from restless leg syndrome have cold feet and that wearing socks can help. It also says about having some mild exercise can help too.

 

[XmasCarol52]

No ,my feet are warm i also tried some things like tightening up my up muscles but to no avail i got it really bad right now i am so worked up i don';t know why just cannot relax,