Restless legs syndrome - treatment of an unpleasant condition

You are not alone if you are diagnosed with restless legs syndrome. Treatment for this disorder requires almost 15% of the US population. This ailment is known since ancient times. As early as 1685, one doctor described the condition of some people who, before going to bed, experience a painful "anxiety in their legs and arms, so that they can not sleep, as if they were in the place of the most cruel torture."

How to identify restless legs syndrome?

Treatment is appointed if diagnosed. But how to determine if you have a RLS?

Answer the following questions that a knowledgeable doctor could ask you:

• Do you feel that in the limbs, it seems "shivers"?

• Does this feel not only in the legs, but also in the hands?

• Do you feel better if you get up, take a couple of steps or take a bath? Is it getting easier from the massage?

• Is this an unpleasant condition if you sit for long periods, for example, in a car?

• When is this condition more common? At night?

• Did someone in your family complain about such feelings?

• Does your marriage companion say that your legs are twitching during sleep?

If you answered yes to some of these questions, most likely the doctor will say that you have RLS - restless legs syndrome.

Treatment of RLS

To the great regret, there is no effective treatment for this disorder yet. However, there is comforting information that RLS can be easily alleviated without the use of drugs.

This ailment is characterized by the fact that there is no one method of treatment. Relief occurs in each patient individually, depending on what activities, manipulations or drugs make it easier to personally his condition. This will require observation and perseverance. What helps one person who has restless legs is not effective for another.

Therefore, if you are suffering from restless legs syndrome, treatment should begin to determine if your condition is caused by some latent disease that is treatable.

• It may be that it is enough to add vitamin B12 or iron compounds to your daily diet, and the symptoms of RLS will be eliminated. However, it is worth consulting with a doctor, so too many minerals and vitamins do not damage your health.

• Those who have restless leg syndrome, treatment with folk remedies can begin with the use of products containing magnesium in large quantities. They say that this helps a lot.

• Be careful with caffeine. In some, it intensifies the symptoms. Therefore, check whether there is a connection with caffeine and increased sensation in the legs. It may be necessary to completely abandon caffeine.

• By reducing the amount of alcohol or completely abandoning it, some patients were able to get rid of this disorder.

• Easy exercise before going to bed helped some people get back to sleep. Try and you do different exercises, just do not try to intensively engage in physical education less than six hours before sleep - this can exacerbate the condition.

• If there is a desire to make any movement with the appearance of unpleasant feelings, do not suppress it. Will suppress - the symptoms can intensify. I want to be like, stretch, take a bath or do a foot massage - do it.

• In cases where during long sitting, for example, in transport, legs are disturbed, reading will help you to distract yourself.

If medication is required

Doctors from the SCN Foundation (USA) are advised to contact a doctor who will individually select the medicine for you, depending on your individual condition. Sometimes it takes more than one drug, but a combination of several.

It happens that a medicine that has been helping for a long time suddenly becomes ineffective. Therefore, cooperate with a doctor and do not despair if you have restless legs syndrome. Treatment is possible and you can cope with this ailment.