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[Peroxideblader]

Hello I'm new on here I did post on newbies and I hope to start hrt in October when I've come back off holidays it's our first holiday in 6 years so I don't want to start before then incase the side effects ruin the holidays I've such bad health already I don't want to add to it yet. I am wondering if anyone had restless leg syndrome due to peri like me I've had them 4 years the same length as my erratic periods and insomnia and now think it could all be linked to peri.  It has got very bad the last 6 months and I have no chance of getting to sleep before 4 or 5am every night my body is ready to give up  has anyone else had this and has hrt helped at all..( just to say I've tried diet had full bloods I'm on iron from doctors tried all the remedies and cures with no luck) 😊

[zelda]

I had this too before I started HRT and now that I am off HRT (temporarily I think) it has come back, it is a horrible experience.

[CLKD]

There are several threads on restless legs.  I eat lots of bananas which gives my potassium levels a boost, or Nurofen 20 mins. B4 I go to bed.  Stops it for me.

 

[Peroxideblader]

I've heard about bananas they didn't help sadly but not heard of ibuprofen..how many tablets do you take 

[Taz2]

Welcome Peroxideblader.

There are treatments available for RLS - have you had a look at the website? http://www.rls-uk.org/  You may find help there. I get it when I'm tired but also found out a few years ago that I had anaemia and after a course of iron tablets from the doc the symptoms disappeared. Hope that you will feel better too once the iron has taken effect. How long have you been taking them for?

Taz x

[Ciscola]

Please try tonic water before you go to bed. It'a really helped me. No gin though
Seriously, give it a try.

[Peroxideblader]

Thanks everyone..I took iron  as my ferratin levels were low on my blood test and the rls went but it came back ten fold even though I still take prescribed iron once a day have been for almost a year. I suffer from.chromic insomnia anyway so it's catch 22 I'm already shattered all the time then rls starts too. I've tried the quinine in tonic water made no difference sadly. I can't take the meds for rls I'm really ill on them...lost cause I am sadly

[CLKD]

200mg Nurofen half an hour before bed.  How many bananas did you eat?  I was eating 3-4 small fruits every day for 5 years, until I bit into one that I didn't like ……. YUK.  But am back on them now.  I also found elevating the legs at night eased symptoms.

[Taz2]

Thanks everyone..I took iron  as my ferratin levels were low on my blood test and the rls went but it came back ten fold even though I still take prescribed iron once a day have been for almost a year. I suffer from.chromic insomnia anyway so it's catch 22 I'm already shattered all the time then rls starts too. I've tried the quinine in tonic water made no difference sadly. I can't take the meds for rls I'm really ill on them...lost cause I am sadly

Have you been investigated as to why you still need to take iron after a year - usually levels are back to normal within six months if you are taking prescribed iron. Did you get any help from the RLS society?

Taz x 

[Fedupofallthis]

There's a really really weird cure for this one.

Rub Vick's on your soles of your feet at night and wear socks in bed. I haven't tried it but I know people who have and they say it works.

[CLKD]

I tried that - it didn't work, why would it 

On Friday night I woke with the most restless legs I have ever had ……… I had to get out of bed in the early hours to take Nuforen and it took ages for the legs to settle.  I'm back on m y bananas

[Lizab]

I feel sure it's due to hormones. I never knew what restless legs was, only had seen pharmaceutical ads for it, until I started hrt. I have had two spells of it, once on my first run of the progesterone phase of my hrt, and again on progesterone a few days ago. For several months in between the progesterone didn't do that to me, so I don't know why it happened again, but I don't think it's coincidence. It has to be due to the hormonal changes. This time I found that if I held my legs tense, I could stop the feeling and was able to get to sleep. It is a horrible thing to deal with.

[CLKD]

I've been bothered intermittently all my Life.  Don't know if there has been a hormonal connection …….. it was un-related to exercise too. 

[Taz2]

There doesn't seem to be a hormone connection mentioned here but the fact it occurs more often in women over the age of 40 might seem to indicate that hormones may be involved somewhere along the line. There are two different types which I didn't realise until I read the "What is RLS" link http://www.rls-uk.org/#!what-is-rls/c5mn

Taz x