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Is this RLS (restless leg syndrome)?

Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Nov 17 8:56pm | Replies (107)

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LOL I've stood to watch TV and even read the paper over the years...I've tried different timing of the supplements, and it didn't seem to help. Sometimes heat helps, support stockings, Tramadol, but nothing so far works every day, until the last month when I tried CBD. I have read the Trazadone could be a trigger but have tried to stop 2 different times, once 4 weeks and then 6 weeks recently. Both times I didn't notice any difference in the RLS, but I was not sleeping. Even after 6 weeks I was only sleeping a few hours a night so was always tired, which just makes my RLS start earlier in the day. If I can sleep 6 or 7 hours, I'm great, but without the trazadone I only sleep about 4 hours. I was given Trazadone in 1998 when after surgery when my doctor discovered I only slept a few hours a night. Taking 150mg I can sleep 6 maybe 7 hours, but not soundly...it must be hereditary as my older brother only sleeps about 4 hours a night, but unfortunately nothing has helped him sleep better.

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I have 10 mg tablets of generic Ambien but take just a quarter of a tablet as any more than that and I will need to take more gabapentin. I have 100 mg capsules of gabapentin but I cut open the capsule and discard about half of the powder. I definitely need the ambien to sleep and I definitely need some of the gabapentin to offset the side effects of the ambien. I have tried and continue to try to sleep without the ambien but all I can get is about 1 or 2 hours and then I am wide awake so that is when I take the 1/4 tablet of the ambien. That seems to get me through the rest of the night. Not being able to sleep and/or having RLS and PILM are so difficult when trying to carry on a normal daytime life.

I wish you good luck 3dogs. I guess the solution is different for each of us.

Donna