Restless fecking legs!

[Squirrelfruitandnutkin]

Aaaarrrrggggggghhhhhh!

Restless legs can fuck right off!

I’ve just started back on Prozac and like last time I’ve got horrible restless legs.

Is there anything I can do at all to sort them out? Before I go mad with twitchiness!

Magnesium spray is meant to work wonders

Try a bath in Epsom salts, that can help.

OhTheTastyNuts did he get that from your GP or Consultant? My DH is suffering really badly at the moment, our GP prescribed Diazepam which did nothing and just made him really groggy.....

I always find a bowl of cereal helps. Think it's the iron in it but it may also be the magnesium/other nutrients in it.

I came to say Epsom salt bath too. Bulk buy them on eBay, works out way cheaper.

Hot bath right before bed, 2 cups of Epsom salts. Stay in twenty minutes. It’s still worth taking an additional magnesium supplement too.

No awful benzo side effects either (that never helped me either - was on it for a different reason)

I've had RL since I was a child, only in bursts and worse when pregnant so mine's never been caused by medication. I find- moisturising my legs with a thick moisturiser after every shower/ bath helps, for some reason any form of dry skin feeling triggers it. Sometimes when it's so bad I really can't sleep at all I can get rid of it mostly by showering my legs and then moisturising them, I use aqueous cream. It's not the rubbing that helps, I've tried doing it without the legs being wet but it makes no difference. Has to be damp legs.
As a child I had no clue what it was and my parents were very dismissive, I'd sleep on my stomach with my legs raised so my heels were touching my bum. I can't explain it! Laying in front with legs bent and lifted off the bed?
The best cure for me is DH tickling my back/ arm/ playing with my hair. It gives me another feeling that overrides the RL feeling and if I can get to sleep RL doesn't wake me up. Doesn't work if I do it myself though.
It's horrible isn't it? Such a nasty sensation. I had it quite badly as a child and my parents just wouldn't listen, they were very much 'it's bedtime, go to sleep' types and I remember biting my pillow and kicking my legs like I was desperately swimming against the bed vividly. I did leg lifts for hours at night as a teen. I only realised it was a 'thing' when I started on here 5 or so years ago and stumbled across a random post about it.

I had it with all 3 pregnancies. It got progressively worse each time. Bananas helped loads. Can't stand the sight or smell of them now mind!

Something about potassium iirc

Magnesium will sort you out

Watching with interest as i am on prozac and also get restless legs. Drives me up the wall.

I only get it when I'm sitting in the evening, it stops when I go to bed...What's that all about? ?

Magnesium spray.

I used to get restless legs when I was tired. I've not given blood for a while because I read that RL can be caused by iron deficiency. My iron levels are always fine when I go to donate, but I guess it takes my body a while to build stores back up after losing nearly a pint of blood, I'm slim so don't have much blood volume anyway.

Hi everyone,

OP has asked for this thread to be moved to general health, so we'll be moving it there shortly.

My partner found his decreased a lot with no caffeine in the evening, sleep routine in place, no tv in the room. And better when he’d moved more. He also sleepwalks when stressed, gets more twitchy too. Sounds like a different root cause for you, but throwing out there in case it helps!

Magnesium and iron tablets worked a treat for me and my sister.