AGONY AUNT: PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS WITH MY RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME
There are many of us out there who experience the agony of restless legs syndrome (RLS). There are also many of us who suffer from other mental and/or physical conditions. Finding solutions – both pharmacological and supplementary – that ease RLS concurrently with other conditions can be problematic. And I speak from personal experience.
I am just a layperson, but RLS seems to be a “dopamine-dependent disorder”. Which in layperson’s terms means dopamine is in short supply – ie. I need more of it. Medications that increase dopamine are called dopamine agonists.
This is all fine and dandy – until you require a medication that blocks dopamine. From personal experience, I have learned there is a long list of drugs that make my restless legs even more restless than normal.
Medications that aggravate my RLS
I have taken a long list of medications for genuine reasons. For the most part, I did not know the offending medication would exacerbate my restless legs. The correlation between RLS and medications is not always well known.
To continue reading please visit:
https://restlesslegssyndrome.sleep-disorders.net/living/medication-interactions/
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