Get Informed: Restless Leg Syndrome
1 in 100 Americans have Restless Leg Syndrome
iGuard.org is currently monitoring more than 16,460 patients with Restless Leg Syndrome from around the United States as shown on the heat map below. These figures suggest that roughly 3 million Americans have Restless Leg Syndrome, with women being 3 times more likely to be affected than men.
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Medications used for Restless Leg Syndrome
Drugs commonly taken by iGuard.org users for Restless Leg Syndrome are listed below, together with the percentage of patients that take each drug.
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Commonly Used Medication Name* (Hover mouse over name to see medication class) |
% of Patients | Average Risk Rating | Generic |
| Requip | 29 % |
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| Mirapex | 18 % |
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YES |
| Klonopin | 12 % |
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YES |
| Neurontin | 11 % |
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YES |
| Lyrica | 5 % |
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NO |
| Tylenol | 5 % |
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YES |
| Flexeril | < 5 % |
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YES |
| Vicodin | < 5 % |
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YES |
| Zanaflex | < 5 % |
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YES |
| Sinemet | < 5 % |
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YES |
| Ativan | < 5 % |
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YES |
| Amitriptyline | < 5 % |
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YES |
| Iron | < 5 % |
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YES |
| Restoril | < 5 % |
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YES |
*This list is NOT EXHAUSTIVE - Only drugs used by a sufficiently large number of iGuard.org users are listed.
**Medications are sometimes known by different brand/generic names, depending upon how they are packaged or used.
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In November (2nd or 3rd) while I was working as a caregiver I twisted my body to the left while my feet were still facing forward but didn't feel any pain till 4 - 5 (7th) days later after doing about 16 -17 loads of laundry. It made no sense to me that I had severe lumbar/lower back pain by the end of the day since I was used to that much laundry regularly for two years but when I went to get up the next morning which was the day I was to return to work after my scheduled days off I could bearly move. I went into work but was sent home. I made an appointment with my doc the same day and was prescibed Darvocet for pain and Cyclobenzaprine as a muscle relaxant but after two weeks of taking those meds I was still in so much pain and it felt like it got worse. The doctor then prescribed physical therapy and after 6 weeks I was in more pain and it had radiated to my sciatic nerve so the doctor scheduled me for a nerve conduction test and prescribed Flexerile but I was not able to fill the prescription so I was taking between 800 to 1,000 Mg of Ibuprofen just so I could bear the pain and then I was scheduled to go in for x-rays which I get the results of. Recently I have been feeling intense pain in my legs that makes sitting, standing, lying down painful. I can't stand for long before I have to sit down and when I do sit down it's not long before I have an ache like a knife or sharp object going into my thigh or the sensation in my calf of a hot poker. I know I am getting older but I am only 42 years old.
Could the injury to my back if severe enough be effecting my legs too?
42 year old female
Posted: 2009-05-19 01:24:33
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Water is answer.
8 years ago I went to bed and the nightmare started. It was so intense that I couldn't get to sleep 9 hours. A horrible feeling in my brain, no chance whatsoever of sleeping. Heart racing, stomach sick and the restless legs. It was so intense that I would shake uncontrollably after going to bed. The days also became hard with dizzyness, blurred vision, afraid to eat food because I thought that might be causing it.
The feeling I would have in my brain and body was the opposite of peace and calmness. It was anxiety and restlessness so bad I thought I was dying. During the nights I would instinctually drink almost a gallon of water and then I would fall asleep after 9 hrs of hell.
Any way this started happening again recently and I found this site. Since I started drinking about 3/4 gallon of water a day I have felt great. I need to add some electrolytes to the water, just using sea salt at the moment... peace
http://curezone.com/foods/waterpage.asp
53 year old male
Posted: 2009-05-17 21:11:45
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I have been using Mirapex for about 5 years now for RLS and its has worked for me.
30 year old female
Posted: 2009-05-05 19:07:59
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I have had success using Flexeril 10mg before bedtime and on occasion Flexeril 10mg with Soma 350mg they are both muscle relaxants but have different mechanisms of action a glass of red wine may also help. in a severe attack I keep a Gel Pack in the freezer as I found a cold compress helps almost immeadiately....I am a Pharmacist with lumbar stenosis and pressure on the sciatic nerve right side.
71 year old male
Posted: 2009-05-03 14:02:53
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I had never dealt with RLS until I was pregnant in 2006. I still have it even now and just pretty much put up with it, as the Flexiril makes me very "jumpy" and I can't relax. I will see if my doctor will prescribe something different. At my most recent sleep study, the technician said my legs moved just about all night. I also had an MRI recently and had to be sedated for it. Although I was semi-awake, I kept hearing the technologist tell me to quit moving my legs! I'm curious what they say causes RLS.
36 year old female
Posted: 2009-05-28 17:01:22 Rating: