Restless legs ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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I get it every time.

Last baby my symptoms were so bad I was going nuts. I went to my local health food shop and got some magnesium supplements which also contained vitamin b6 (very good for sickness - anecdotal but worth a shot) but I've not got any in. I will try and go tomorrow, in the meantime any suggestions will be so gratefully received.

Its only at night

WriterWanabee I am exactly the same, DH knows when my legs have gone crazy as it is the only time a banana will ever be eaten!

I'm the same, Writer, frankly I'd prefer they didn't exist - the sight of them is bad enough.

I'm at a loss! I tried the vicx thing, didn't work :( I'm even getting it now as I sit on my break at work. Last night I could have screamed, rolling over every couple minutes after waking up. Maybe I'm eating too late in the evenings, I really don't know. So many of us suffer from it so there must be some sort of remedy by now

I've been doing gentle exercises,and making sure I'm well hydrated.

Last night I was very fidgety so I put my headphones on and listened to chill out music, it worked as I fell asleep with the music on. A good distraction.

Oh and bribing my kids to massage my legs early evening helps!

Bananas didn't work for me. A warm bath before bed did help a little.
Horrible isn't it x

I get intermittent cramp & restless legs. Glass of tonic water before bed helps (and is lovely with loads of ice & lime!)

I had this in pregnancy and it went away when I started taking pregnancy multi vits. For tonight, I would stretch your calves for a few minutes by standing on the bottom stair, letting your heels drop the edge, and relaxing. That used to help me.

Will try the stretching. I'm already taking pregnancy multi bits so must be something else causing it. It did help a little to put a podcast on and fall asleep to that so will try that again tonight. Ate a lot earlier this evening so again, that may help..... here's hoping!

Have you got magnesium in your supplements? This def helps me.

This is not a fail safe as I'm about 38+3 now and baby has dropped so it may just be a shift in his weight on my nerves, BUT I've noticed over the last couple of weeks that I've been eating a lot of kiwi fruit and suddenly my legs are a lot more relaxed in bed at night - only getting up to pee alot now, which unfortunately there is no remedy in the world for ;)

Should also say, I tried EVERYTHING else over the last 6 months, tonic water, warm baths, yoga, hot water bottles, bananas - this is literally the only thing I've noticed has a bit of a connection, and maybe dried apricots, but as I say can't tell whether it's just the stage I'm at - good luck :)

One thing i have certainly noticed (pre pregnancy as well as now, at 19 weeks) is that sugar, for me, seems to agitate it alot..

put a new unwrapped bar of soap in your bed - I tried this last week after reading on here and IT WORKSSSS :)

ivory/white soap is best but johnsons baby (all they had in shop) works too

WHAT???
just randomly in the bed, or near your legs, or what?
is this a windup? :) :)

no it works

I put mine down the bottom of bed under the duvet

something to do with chemicals used in soap :)

God that's mad. I'll give it a go. So you just leave it lying there, unwrapped? you dont smear it on your legs or anything?

the joys of pregnancy.. has evolution failed?? :)

I have ME not pregnant :) but yes just leave it there although funnily enough I did rub my legs with it one night before bed just because they were a bit twitchy before I went to bed.

I leave it in the bed all the time.

I find having something heavy on my legs helps. My friend gets her boyfriend to sit on them, I will leave the laptop on my bed sometimes! But I also find tucking the bed in tight can help. I can't share a bed because I make such big movements. My feet have started going now!

WriterWanabee - bananas are one of the few foods that you can be allergic to the smell, if the smell makes you want to be sick could you be allergic? Otherwise you're just weird

I also get twitchy during the night - for me it's dehydration. If it wakes me up I just drink a couple of glasses of water. No caffeine at all, plus a sachet of rehydration salts in the evening seems to prevent it completely. The added bonus is that after a week without caffeine I sleep like a baby.
Hope that works for you!

For me it's making sure that my legs are not hot and orgasms :-)

soap still working for me.