My legs are SO BLOODY BUSY.

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Omg restless legs are doing my head in. Im sure alcohol doesn't help but FFS it's Christmas Eve. Please tell me how to make it STOP.

You can't make it stop, well, I've not found anything. Worst time is when I'm
trying to sleep. x

Paracetamol. Magnesium supplements long term. It's fucking miserable, you have my sympathy.

More iron?

Oh I feel your pain. I sometimes get my DP to put his weight on them, or rub them for a bit.
I wonder if a hand held massager gun thing might work? (I don't have one!)

Sounds strange but elastic bandage on the leg helps me (read somewhere that it send different messages to rhe brain). Cocodamol sometimes and erm orgasm too.

It's always a sign my iron is low. Good luck, it's miserable.

Is it your thyroid? I always get restless legs when my thyroid meds aren’t balanced.
It is awful, try magnesium long term and maybe a warm bath right now?

You need magnesium
A supplement to take every evening and also the lotion works well for relief. Eating a banana might help, but defo get some magnesium

Lie with your bum up against the wall/headboard and legs up the wall before you go to sleep. Let all the boys drain and let them go tingling before you take them down

I might try magnesium..thyroid was fine a year or so ago

I'm currently walking around the cold kitchen floor on top toes cos it feels a bit helpful

Dear god. Middle age is no fun 😩

Tip toes!

Magnesium spray helps

Bar of soap under your sheet - weird but works here

Magnesium glycinate and a weighted blanket. Obviously won't help tonight!

I suffer too - when I'm tired. I pace about or go for a walk and then try to sleep but it's miserable.

I find the only thing that works is to lay on my stomach on the floor and kick my legs up behind me rapidly. I look bonkers but it really helps to stretch them out. Like going for a run without the running!

Have you tested your iron (ferritin) levels? Tested mine as was losing a lot of hair, turned out was pretty low (42 and should be 150), started taking 210mg iron (ferrous fumerate) plus vit c to help absorb the iron and my restless legs all but stopped overnight

DH has been taking spa tone for the last decade and no caffeine - has massively improved things. He can now sit in a car and not have to be the driver....

Can I ask to describe the symptoms of restless legs as you experience it?

Just wondered as I get severe leg cramp and I literally roar out loud with the pain of it. But it is probably nothing like restless legs.

I sympathise anyway.

@greenhousegal it's just an overwhelming urge to move your legs. They sort of tingle and you can't keep still.. mine are up the wall while I'm lying on the sofa, waving about, just anyway to move. Almost as if you need them to start hurting because that would be better than the twitching and moving.

Magnesium spray. It’s a life saver.

Stretching the muscles

Single duvet/extra blankets across shins and feet. I was going to buy a weighted blanket but the duvet helps most of the time.

OP have a bath with Magnesium Sulphate crystals, you can get them in chemists or regular supermarkets in the bath aisle. Chuck a load in the bath whilst the water is running & get in. If your legs ache/smart whilst you're in the bath it definitely shows magnesium deficiency. You can absorb it through the skin though. When your magnesium levels are ok, you can't feel anything in this type of bath so it's a good way of finding out. Restless legs are the one thing you can cure easily. I used to suffer terribly.

Paracetamol, don't know why it works and it shouldn't but it does for me.

Bizarre but I slather on Deep Heat , sends mixed message to brain and seems to allow me to sleep