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Restless Leg…

Nadeem77 said:
I’ve been pretty bad with restless leg syndrome and have been prescribed Amitryptyline 25mg a day to help with it. It works 80% of the time. Anyone else have it and what’re you doing to cope?
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I have restless legs and I tend to walk or do something to take my brain about thinking about it or try.
I agree with @becca59
I have a couple of exercises to stretch the muscles and help reduce the restlessness.
There is paracetamol or I use an antihistamine.
Doing anything is better than nothing, I know it's hard to put up with sometimes, but walking is also good for your BG levels as well.
 
I take medication prescribed by my GP but I do sometimes suffer at night when trying to sleep and like you the meds probably work 80% of the time. Usually if I can feel it coming on I’ll get up, walk around for a minute and do a couple of stretches, give my legs a good shake and that usually eases it off just enough that I can fall to sleep. If I am having a bad night as well after my stretches I will put my weighted blanket on which does seem to help as well.
 
Nicola M said:
I take medication prescribed by my GP but I do sometimes suffer at night when trying to sleep and like you the meds probably work 80% of the time. Usually if I can feel it coming on I’ll get up, walk around for a minute and do a couple of stretches, give my legs a good shake and that usually eases it off just enough that I can fall to sleep. If I am having a bad night as well after my stretches I will put my weighted blanket on which does seem to help as well.
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What meds are you on? @Nicola M ?
 
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