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Is this RLS (restless leg syndrome)?

Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Sep 25 3:30pm | Replies (105)

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@gailfaith

@darlia, gaitfaith here. For years I have had RLS, but when it started our local newspaper had a column by a Dr. Gott, MD who suggested putting a bar of soap under your bottom sheet. Yes, I know it sounds nuts, and it doesn't work for everyone. But it did for me, I remember they said that Dial soap doesn't seem to work, but no one mentioned other brands. I always thought is was simply mind over matter or Psychosomatic, but one day I work up as my legs were all over the place. I wonderred where the bar of soap was as I didn't feel it under the sheet. It had slid off the mattress and was now below the mattress caught by the fitted sheet. Haven't had a problem since I returned it to its place under the bottom sheet, but now if I see the soap getting near the edge, I return it to at least a foot from the edge.! It doesn't HAVE to be under your legs. Just under the bottom sheet. I think if it were under m legs, it would annoy me! I have no idea what brand of soap I have as it has been the same bar for years! Maybe 30+ years as I forget when I started, but we moved from the house where I started it back in 1986. Same bar of soap! An interesting fact:...... I have no problems with RLS when staying at a hotel, hospital, etc, when there is no soap under the sheet !!!!!! But there I am only there for a few nights at a time.

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I've heard the same about putting a bar of soap under the sheets at a support group round table at one of the MN Neuropathy Association meetings. The person that said it worked for them said they used Ivory bar soap but thought any white bar soap would work. Just wished it worked to help with numbness ☺