Restless legs torture

[dobbysmum]

Hello, long time lurker, first time poster!

I'm currently 33 weeks pregnant and I'm exhausted, I haven't slept properly for about a month because of restless legs.

How do you cope? Last night was the worst its been and I was awake til 2:30am and up at 7am to get my little boy ready for school.

I've tried massaging it, hot baths, hoy water bottle, drinking (which by the way I.went to the loo for a wee 8 times before of gone to sleep!), I don't know what else to do.
With that and the constant weeing, I'm barely sleeping and I'm so exhausted I could cry.

Does anyone have any other tips, I need sleep and its torture 😫 fyi my husband's helpful advice of "The worst thing you can do is move your legs"... Didn't help... 😒

Thank you

Oh god I'm dreading this kicking in again.

For me I was the opposite, I managed to ease mine by getting up at 2am standing in the shower and blasting them with the freezing cold water!

Nothing really worked 100% though but I do feel for you. Sorry it's not much help!

Banana for your supper!!

Magnesium apparently but I don't know of any pregnancy implications

I take prescribed medication for mine and the relief when I first took it was instantaneous. But I don’t know whether it’s possible to take it in pregnancy and it probably isn’t, very sorry. It’s a drug called Ropinirole.
But FWIW my RLS started in pregnancy, then went away for many years.
You could ask about a magnesium supplement?
Also....(whispers) the other thing that I found helped was sex....

Thanks guys, ill look into the magnesium.
Not sure I can be arsed with sex, my husband sings "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down..." At me whenever we "try"... 😒 he's a keeper 😝

I find cold helps. Cold bedroom, ice pack on my knees. Sleep in the spare room sometimes when DP makes the bed too hot.

I had the same from about 30wks -I was told by my yoga teacher to have tonic water- but the branded stuff as that has higher amounts of Quinine (a natural anti inflammatory) I wasn’t confident it would worked but tried it and it really helped!!
I also enjoyed pretending I was having a g&t! It’s actually quiet refreshing with loads of ice xx

I find cold helps. Cold bedroom, ice pack on my knees.

Oh no cold makes mine 10x worse! Paracetamol helps, and tonic water as a preventive due to the quinine.
When I was pregnant was the only time I never suffered! Then as my legs were coming back after the spinal block BAM! RLS kicked in again

I've had to give up sleeping in my bed because of it. I sleep on the sofa with window open and a thin blanket. Can't use a duvet and kick the sheet off. I wake up with dreadful cramps in my legs. Soak in the bath before bed seems to help.

Have bought some magnesium supplements but haven't started taking them yet.

I've tried Epsom salts in the past but not sure that they helped.

Oh I had this with both my last pregnancies and I totally sympathise it's the worst! I used to cry all night and nothing helped so I have suggestions.

I used Biofreeze, at the first sign of a tingle I slathered it on and it eased...expensive but worth it, big pump bottles are available on Amazon