Restless Leg Syndrome
Man, there are some stupid ‘conditions’ out there, and I think RLS takes the cake. RLS is defined as such:
“Restless legs syndrome is a condition that is characterized by an irresistible urge to move one’s legs (occasionally arms or torso).“
I guess people aren’t allowed to be uncomfortable anymore or fidget. What are we going to treat next with medicine, excessive blinking? This is where Mirapex comes in, to solve RLS with medication you don’t need!
Now it is one thing to be suckered into getting medicine for this, when you’re probably just moving your legs because you’re nervous, deep in though, etc. It’s a completely different thing to accept all its side effects.
- Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting, especially when standing up
- Drowsiness
- Hallucinations
- Weight gain
- Weight loss
- Nausea
- Trouble in sleeping
- Twitching, twisting, or other unusual body movements
- Unusual tiredness or weakness
- Several unusual adverse effects of this medication may include compulsive gambling, hypersexuality, and overeating.
Please tell me how ANY of these adverse effects taken directly off of wiki, are worse than dealing with your legs moving around? Yes, I’d much rather have an extremely elevated sex drive, want to waste my money gambling, hallucinate, be drowsy and feel sick all at the same time. Maybe then my fantasy of gambling while halucinating that the chips are singing at me while vomiting at the same time!
This is just pathetic, guess the drug companies need to make more money off of suckers.
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March 28th, 2008 - 3:29:38 pm
LMAO that is SO TRUE. I remember when I first saw that commercial and saw the ‘Several unusual adverse effects of this medication may include compulsive gambling, hypersexuality, and overeating’ part and wondered if I read/heard that right. haha wow huh
On another note (lol) I do know what that restless leg syndrome is. I have had that before, and it’s a weird feeling you feel in your legs. It’s not from being nervous or restless. BUT I never thought it bad enough to go on meds. That didn’t even dawn on me. Maybe some people have it so severe though that it does interfere with their sleep. BUT (lol) still…those side effects. I mean come on. They are so much worse than the condition itself. If I had it that bad I think I would try some natural way. Yoga, some kind of relaxation techniques…anything but meds. It just seems too ridiculous.
March 28th, 2008 - 3:33:54 pm
I think they’re (doctors, the medicine company) trying to sugar-coat the symptoms to make them sound more serious than it really is. It just sounds too stupid to be a actual real, serious problem. The commercial always shows symptoms such as being unable to sit still.
I’ll bet anything that all people really need to do that have RLS, is clear their minds, calm down and relax. But, I’m no highly qualified doctor. lol
My main point though is the side effects. lol
All those are MUCH worse than dealing with a tingling (lol) in your legs if you ask me.
(now that I think about it it sounds like the tingling could just mean the person’s leg went to sleep *rolls eyes* lol)
March 28th, 2008 - 3:37:43 pm
lol yeah, i know it. Those side effects are just so so bad.
March 28th, 2008 - 3:38:58 pm
lol from two really long comments to two really short ones lmao
*pokes you*
March 28th, 2008 - 3:57:11 pm
lmao shush *pokes you*
March 28th, 2008 - 3:58:55 pm
*calls “Booty!”* lmao
March 28th, 2008 - 11:10:38 pm
lmao Booty!!
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March 28th, 2008 - 11:11:16 pm
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*pokes you back*
March 29th, 2008 - 11:56:07 pm
For the record folks my Dad has RLS, as do 3 of my 4 siblings. Two have the effect in their legs, one has the effect in their shoulders and I have both.
On the occassions where I have run out of mirapex, I have done situps, pushups and run upn to 4 mi trying to shake the RLS symptoms. Last Fall I ran out of mirapex and took enough valium over the course of 6 hrs, that I had to be hospitalized. You can not imagine how powerful the relentless urge to move almost continously while in the grips of these sysmptoms. If I attempt to do meditation or simply ignore the symptoms, my legs and shoulders go into involutary jerks so violent that my wife can’t stay in bed with me. The sym,ptoms have become so bad for one of my elderly aunts, she walks the house crying because she can’t sleep. This isn’t an annoyance, it is a plague and a scourge that I wouldn’t wish on anyone…
March 30th, 2008 - 12:16:01 am
Well, before doing my post and rant, I did some reading. I didn’t find anything like what you were describing. If you watch the Mirapex commercial you wouldn’t think RLS is what you describe. If the places that I read about RLS described what you did, I might actually take it a bit more serious.
The symptoms that do get listed sound quite asinine in how generic they are.
My post is simply making fun of the dumbed-down symptoms that are described, and the over-the-top side effects the medicine causes.
Anyway, I can imagine the real cases are quite a pain however and would never wish anyone to have to suffer (unless they truly deserve to).
March 30th, 2008 - 1:49:39 am
orion, it does sound generically stupid, doesn’t it? That’s why those of us with it hate it even more - it sounds so lame people can’t help but make fun of it. And, that makes us feel even worse. But, it really is awful. The Internet is full of information - some of it right, some wrong, and some in between. For an accurate accounting of RLS, I believe wemove.org, rls.org, or rlshelp.org are the places I trust.
The hard part is that the description is vague…because different people describe it differently. To sort of “get” if you have it, the criteria make more sense: do you have an odd, uncomfortable sensation? does the sensation go away when you move? is it worse at night? is it worse at rest?
The key that the definition doesn’t really get at is that you don’t move just to move, you move because if you don’t, you’ll go crazy! While it doesn’t feel this way, it’s like being tickled - you’ll do anything to make it stop.
Oh, the drug companies totally didn’t make this one up - don’t think that you said that, just wanted to say it myself. My whole family has it - and years before any drug company started selling meds for it. I’m personally grateful they finally realized that a lot of us go through hell. I guess I might not even mind the feeling if I could sleep, but it keeps me awake all night. I had to change my job and how I work so I could deal with it. I consider myself lucky that I could as not everyone would be able to. After months (years for some) of little sleep, it’s really gets to you.
March 30th, 2008 - 7:54:37 am
I think you hit the nail on the head there. I wouldn’t be so arrogant with this if there wasn’t so much misinformation about it, but all I found about it made it sound too ridiculous to be real.
Again, nothing you just described sounded like what was described in the commercials or elsewhere. So coming from my point of view it really does sound quite odd and hard to believe.