thank you so much for the magnesium suggestion. unfortunately, i have some nerve damage in my left leg that requires medication anyway... medication that fortunately might help with RLS... so i'll...
Finally had my dr appt today. We decided to slowly up my neurontin dose to 1800mg and see what happens. If it's working, we might increase it a little more. If it's not working, then we'll try...
dr diagnosed me with it awhile back, but i, um, ignored it cuz i didn't know much about RLS and thought he was way off (i thought RLS was *only* creepy crawly sensations on your legs and/or...
thanks, everyone... i wonder if the "type" of RLS matters... i don't have the crawling sensation or the kicking/involuntary leg movements... i wonder if diff meds/treatments are more effective for...
Lynnster - where do you get calcium/magnesium tabs? is that something you can get OTC at walgreens? Kaely - is pramipexole the only med you've tried? what dose are you on? have you had any side...
thank you for the response. the first medicine i tried was ropinirole, but it was making me throw up, so i stopped taking it. the dr switched me to tramadol, which was working great for awhile, but...
i haven't seen that one, don't know anything about it... you recommend it?...
not that i should butt-in, but with liver problems, don't you usually see yellowing of the eyes or some sort of change in skin color?...
Funny you should mention sciatica. I had (have?) that a little while ago. While trying to get to the bottom of my leg pain (i'm sure there's a pun in there somewhere), i was sent for an MRI and they...
my RLS, if that's what it is, presents as a constant throbbing "muscle" pain (like i had been running or working out for too long) that makes it very difficult to sit at my desk and work during the...
thanks for the reply. i have gone to the dr, several times. i'm actually a little embarrassed now. the dr. suggested RLS, but i thought that was a "stupid" diagnosis - my understanding of RLS at the...
is this the right place to start a topic about RLS? after talking with some other people, i think RLS is the cause of my leg pain, so i was hoping to hear from some of you around here what you do to...
Thank you for all your replies, I greatly appreciate it. My wife and I are going on a cruise for a belated honeymoon. If we're still married when we get back, I'll stop jumping around my meds or...
a month! :( do you think i should have tried cymbalta for a month? i was already on tramadol and neurontin for a long time, so maybe just cross them off the list instead of going back and forth...
I know you're right. This is it. If the neurontin doesn't work, I'll stop goofing around and wait to develop a plan with my Dr at our Dec 5 appointment. Maybe....
I don't smoke or drink or do any recreational drugs. I'm about 5'7" and around 135 lbs. The first two weeks of cymbalta, I was on the edge of throwing up at any minute and could barely stay awake....
Does it matter how you take a dosage? If you're supposed to take 300mg of something, is there any difference to taking one 300mg dose vs two 150mg doses vs three 100mg doses? Like with my tramadol,...
It wasn't the dosage that surprised me so much as the amount of pills. I just can't imagine sitting there swallowing 18 pills. I was at 600mg and even just 6 pills seemed a bit excessive to me. I...
I don't take the tramadol anymore. I'm in a bit of a spin here. Ever since I started taking medication for my pain, my libido dyed his hair, bleached his fingerprints, and fled the country. It wasn't...
1800mg? That sounds like a lot to me. Do you take that all at once? My pills are 100mg. I can't even imagine taking 18 of them!...
Thank you for the welcome. That's kind of why I think I don't really belong here. My pain isn't exactly "unbearable" - it's very frustrating and distracting and uncomfortable and makes me misreable,...
I hate to say it, but I don't really like my doctor and would prefer not to work with him if I can avoid it. The first time I was put on neurontin, I complained that it wasn't working and he said:...
I posted this in another thread, but realized there's probably a lot of people that could speak to this issue who might not see it in the other one. Hope you don't mind me reposting it as a new...
I regret the title of this thread. I didn't mean to imply others should use this method, I only meant to imply that it's what helped me get through withdrawal. I've seen the reports on...
Thank you, everyone, for the replies. To answer a previous question, no, I'm not on any anti-depressants. The only thing I'm taking right now is neurontin again (giving it another try). My next...
By the way, when I got off my meds (to test my theory that my lack of interest was not my fault), I foolishly went cold turkey. I was sick as a dog at first, but then I took a five hour energy shot...
After reading so many posts here, I feel almost silly with my pain problems. They really pale in comparrison to yours. I feel like I'm in a big line at the post office and everyone's got a bunch of...