RLS Sufferer...anyone else have heart disease in their famil

1. champion twitcher 22 September 2008 at 20:48PM
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   [color=red:cc09648489][/color:cc09648489] Hi...how refreshing to read that there are people on the planet that know how i feel!! although my mum,sister,aunt and cousins suffer too,we kinda feel nobody outside the family gets us lol. Ive had this problem since i was a young child..i'm now 33!!

   Well ,my question is...anybody elses family have heart disease??? our family does...if fact my mother has died from it...,i'm just wondering if their could be some kinda link between the two??...narrowing of the arteries....slow blood flow etc.

   others thoughts and opinions would be interesting.

   Oh and i have to keep my feet cool to help with twitches,bedroom window open all the time...duvet never goes over my feet!! i get up an walk around cold floor,rub cream on..karate chop my legs,anything to take away the 'feeling' .Also at times i have to take ibroprofen or other painkillers,that or stay awake all night!! I can't take it anymore!!

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2. eeem 29 September 2008 at 18:14PM

   Wow this site is amazin. I only found it by accident looking for a leg rest. I just read what champion twitcher had to say re keeping feet cool. I too have to keep my feet cool I always sleep with my feet outside the duvet and have on occasions taken a frozen water bottke to bed with me wrapped in a towel.

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3. Guest 29 September 2008 at 18:37PM

   What a good idea emmm re: iced hot water bottle. I quite often go and fill the bath with cold water and sit on edge of bath with feet immersed in cold water. Will try your method tonight.

   I also spray them with that menthol cooling spray for feet but they get so hot it doesn't last very long :oops:

   I do find that massaging the backs of my legs from behind my knees to the ends of my toes with moisturiser just before bed sometimes helps enough for me to fall asleep before the twitching starts.

   Melbi x

   ps My mum had a heart attack and a heart by pass. Wondering now if there could be something in it? :shock:

   Melbi x

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