Please could someone advise what meds or by what means I can get rid of this twitching in my right leg please. I can’t get to sleep because of it and have to get up for work! 1st day back And I’ll be shattered AARRGGHH rant over. Sonia x
Hi Sonia
I take magnesium pills for restless leg syndrome (the ones I use also have calcium in them and are about 80% of your recommended daily allowance. If I need to I’ll take half of one in th evening and then, if it’s still giving me a problem when I go to bed I’ll take the other half. I also take baclofen,which helps with leg spasms.
Hope you get some relief & sleep soon.
Dan
Ditto to above. Helps me too. Apart from the Baclofen, I don’t take that…
B
Hi, I take 300mg quinine tablets at night for restless legs. GP prescribes it for me on repeat. Took a while to work but it gives me about 80% relief.
Try drinking tonic water at night. It has quinine.
luv Pollx
Thanks all, i will be ringing the GP to see if i can take these with Warfarin. Gone 1 by the time i dropped
off so work was great! NOT LOL
sonia x
ooh great thanks for that, i will ask about those tomorrow when i go t the docs about something else as my legs are driving me CRAZY. Tho i have asked about my restless legs a couple of times before and been fobbed off, i suppose as long as i keep logging it with him i might get somewhere eventually. I feel like i want to kick out all the time with my only relief at the moment to be to lie on the floor with my legs in the air and stretch them out wiht a resistance band. not hte most graceful of manoevures.
Hi Franky, This is my biggest problem at the moment also. The mental image I’ve got of you doing your nighttime exercise routine is not too dissimilar to mine! I think I’ve only managed a couple of hours, at best, of unbroken sleep for about the last month now due to it. I’m booked in with my MS nurse next Monday now so, hopefully, we can get it sorted. I’ll let you know how I go. Edan.
good to know my moves are done elsewhere. maybe a lycra clad ‘leg limbo’ exercise vid is called for (ooooff wouldnt wish that on anyone…)
i feel like my doc must think im a mental hypocondriac or drug addict or something. Seems im off there for more drugs every couple of weeks for one thing or another. aaaah the life of an mser eh?!
good luck with the ms nurse!
Lol, and cheers. 
Sonic not sure about the magnesium but quinine a definite no no with warfarin.-increases or decreases the effectso G&T’s are out
Forgot to add I take Baclofen for the leg spasms. Helps most of time
Thanks Gladys, damn Warfarin affects everything!
Hi there, My neuro prescribed 0.5 micrograms of clonazepam for restless legs, It helps me !!! Hope you get some relief Margaret x
I take MADOPAR works a treat to keep me still in bed.
Hi
I am a little different, I get the restless leg syndrome when my iron levels are low. My GP has prescribed liquid iron to add to orange juice.
Helen
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I’m on clonazepam too, same dose as above. Makes a huge difference, to the extent that if I forget to take a tablet, the leg twitch wakes me up and I have to get up and take it. Doesn’t work for everyone tho - one of my friends tried it, saw no benefit and is now on Baclofen - I think that’s stronger (more side-effects?)
Hi,
I know its different for all. I used to get terrible twitches, felt like a hot needle going into knee. Could not keep it still, it hurt. At night the twitching legs would wake up the other half.
Baclofen and Gabapentin brought it under control. Tizanadine for really bad spasms
Suggest you talk to GP or MS Nurse
Patrick
If you want to know which drugs you can take together your locaal pharmacist is the person to ask - they know more about the drugs than the doctor usually does. GPs have to know a lot about a lot of different conditions - but pharmacist just know about drugs so they can and do know more detail about them - my GP has to look it up most of the time and says his book does not always have all the answers.
If you want to know which drugs you can take together your locaal pharmacist is the person to ask - they know more about the drugs than the doctor usually does. GPs have to know a lot about a lot of different conditions - but pharmacist just know about drugs so they can and do know more detail about them - my GP has to look it up most of the time and says his book does not always have all the answers.