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Omg we have the exact same thing! And restless legs are a bummer but sometimes stretching before bed works for us? Or kicking really aggressively for a while haha, I think it's another panic response, the body wants to run away so moving a lil bit can fool it sometimes. -Enne

There’s no known root cause for RLS, but known causes of RLS are:

increased caffeine intake

too much exercise

not enough exercise

old age

genetics

pregnancy

iron deficiency

Parkinson’s disease

peripheral neuropathy (the damage of nerves in the extremities)

diabetes

sleep deprivation

alcohol

kidney failure

anxiety medications or SSRIs

cold/flu treatments

damage to the spine or spinal cord

dopamine reuptake disruption

renal disease

smoking

antinausea medications

stress

It’s not so much as the body wants to “run away.” It’s the overwhelming urge to move. Sometimes it’s just an overwhelming itch, or burning, or crawling sensation, that can only be dispelled by movement. Scientists can locate potential causes within the brain and chemical balances in the body, as well as some physical disorders that cause nerve damage (subsequently, RLS), but there’s no known “this is the reason, 100%. This little part of the body causes all that” answer.

And moving your legs around can help, yes. But for us it just gets worse the more we move them. One of the treatments is, yes, stretching. Some exercise, some cut down caffeine and sugar (we did, no caffeine 5 hours before bed), some by taking iron supplements (also us, but didn’t do shit), and some by taking a prescription muscle relaxer/sleep assisting drug.

Before we knew what caused ours, we’d wrap cloth around the parts of our feet that get the most wiggle urges. (We can’t wear socks to bed. We just can’t. Bad stim.) Having that pressure on those areas actually seemed to help some. Others were strange rituals we caught our brain doing whenever our feet twitched: not letting our feet face opposite directions when we lay down, not letting them lay on top of each other, keeping our knees bent...somehow those things also helped.

Unfortunately, our RLS is caused by our anti-anxiety medication, Cymbalta (or the generic, duloxetine). Medications like Lexapro (escitalopram), Prozac (fluoxetine), Lamictal (lamotrigine), Thorazine (chlorpomazine), Halix (haloperidol), and other medications that mess with dopamine and serotonin, or are anti-psychotics/anti-nausea/antidepressants/anti-anxiety/mood regulation, ALL can cause RLS, because they affect the part of the brain -- the basal ganglia -- that receives the most dopamine. Dopamine is involved with fine motor skills as well as mood regulation. Iron deficiency in the brain (specifically) can also cause muscle spasms or urges.

And as much as I’d love to try another medication for my anxiety, this? This is honestly the best fit. I’ve tried several different non-lithium SSRIs in the past and my god the spectrum of strange and unrecorded side effects I had are more than enough to put me off trying any more.

Luckily, the true ‘cure’ for my RLS lied in something that you can buy from Walmart for cheap, and it’s so powerful even some PTSD sufferers use it to help them sleep and cope with nightmares: Valerian Root.

You wouldn’t think it. But this stuff is Gold. Move over, melatonin.

Before my psych gave me Trazodone (which is a prescription that does virtually the same thing, however Trazodone is more for anxiety-induced sleep disorders in general), Valerian Root saved me so many sleepless nights and stress overloads from lack of sleep.

So that’s been our cure, the Valerian Root and Trazodone. (I usually don’t take the Valerian Root unless it’s a really bad night.)

To avoid my anxiety jumping to PANIC! mode because of my slower heart rate (and to keep it from going PANIC! as cortisol reenters my system as I wake up), I take my Vistaril (hydroxyzine) which is anti-anxiety. I call it my ‘chill pill.’ Cause that’s exactly what it is. And I’d never part with it.

So in total I take like 4 pills before bed. But in all honesty I’d prefer 4 pills before bed and having a good 10 hours of sleep, uninterrupted, with almost no wiggly legs, than trying to do only one or nothing and using other remedies that maybe get me 4 hours of sleep tops.

Anyway now you know how I usually cure that RLS problem.

However lately I’ve been wanting to make movements towards mindfulness. I feel it’d be helpful if I can find methods to calm my anxiety in the event it flares up and I don’t have my Vistaril on hand as an emergency. Plus, it’s always good to practice coping skills like breathing exercises and mind framing. They don’t always work that well for me, but knowing how they work can always help me help someone else.

#omen-system #hi it's almost like i've spent like 30 sleepless nights looking this stuff up #crying probably #sorry for the infodump i just Have A Lot To Say

Whenever I feel like garbage I complement myself with my best impression of Major Armstrong, like ‘OH MY YOUNG MO, SUCH BRAVERY IT TAKES TO GET OUT OF BED! YOUR UNDYING RESOLVE TO CONTINUE LIVING! YOUR DEDICATION TO YOUR STUDIES IS INSPIRING! HOW STRONG YOU MUST BE TO EVEN GO TO SCHOOL KNOWING HOW AWFUL IT MAKES YOU FEEL!’ And like idk about you guys but it makes me feel a little bit better about myself

#fma #mental illness #sometimes i just like to think that he would be proud #flowerd floating around him #shirt off #crying probably #and the image just makes me smile