IN PARKINSONS DISEASE CAUSED BY TOXIC CHEMICALS THE ENTIRE GI TRACT IS INVOLVED AND STOMACH HYPERACIDITY AND VOMITING ARE COMMON. YOUR DOC TOR MAY TRY OMEPRAZOLE WHICH HELPS BUT NOW YOU GO ON TO NOT ENOUGH ACID TO ABSORB B VITAMINS AND DIETARY IRON. OVER TIME YOU BECOME ANEMIC AND IRON DEFICIENT. RESTLESS LEGS BECOME A NIGHTMARE. YES ROPINIROLE CAN ALLEVIATE AS WELL AS AGENTS LIKE BEN GAY. TO CORRECT YOUR IRON DEFICIENCY TAKE FERROUS SULFATE TABLETS WITH VITAMIN C AND B COMPLEX VITAMINS. YOUR SERUM IRON LEVELS WILL TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS TO REGISTER HIGHER BUT SYMPTOMS WILL ABATE. ANY MEDS REDUCING STOMACH ACID CAN PRODUCE THIS
RLS has been my night time buddy for several years. Everyday I was exhausted and needed to sleep in the afternoon--not a nap, but sleep. The popular opinion was sleep apnea. Some thought I should get a CPAP machine or a mouth guard. So my internist wrote a scrip for a sleep test at a local hospital. I was wired up with electrodes all over my body or it seemed by the sleep lab technician. A few hours in the sleep lab revealed that I had RLS--much to the surprise of my armchair diagnosticians. My internist prescribed a generic drug, ropinirole. I take this cheap generic about two hours before bedtime. When I am exhausted, my legs twitch in the afternoon A low dose quiets my legs. I have not experience any side effects from taking this drug. But the moral of my story is to find out if you have RLS in the first place. If I had not taken the sleep test, I would not of known the underlying cause of my tiredness.
I am so glad you wrote about the nonpharmaceutical approaches.They are so worth trying until you figure out which ones work for you. I cut back on coffee and soda. I now turn off my computer and iphone much earlier. Be sure to get enough sleep if you have this condition. Too little sleep will make RLS worse. I also sleep in a cold room all year around.
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I was wired up with electrodes all over my body or it seemed by the sleep lab technician. A few hours in the sleep lab revealed that I had RLS--much to the surprise of my armchair diagnosticians. My internist prescribed a generic drug, ropinirole. I take this cheap generic about two hours before bedtime. When I am exhausted, my legs twitch in the afternoon A low dose quiets my legs.
I have not experience any side effects from taking this drug. But the moral of my story is to find out if you have RLS in the first place. If I had not taken the sleep test, I would not of known the underlying cause of my tiredness.
I am so glad you wrote about the nonpharmaceutical approaches.They are so worth trying until you figure out which ones work for you. I cut back on coffee and soda. I now turn off my computer and iphone much earlier. Be sure to get enough sleep if you have this condition. Too little sleep will make RLS worse. I also sleep in a cold room all year around.