Restless Leg Syndrome? Anyone else plagued

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9. Me, my sister, and my brother have RLS

I've suffered from RLS since a teenager as has my sister and my brother.

Nothing works to "cure" my RLS but certain things have helped:

1) Make sure to drink water during the day. If I forget to hydrate it's a sure bet my RLS will be worse that night.

2) Magnesium supplements didn't work for me, but surprisingly magnesium spray rubbed into my legs actually helped. I say "surprisingly" because I felt I had tried everything and magnesium spray seemed more like a gimmick. But, was desperate so tried it, and it actually helped. I keep a bottle next to my bed and if I wake up with RLS I spray on my legs and rub it in. I can go back to sleep within about 5 minutes.

3) Ambien on occasion. Ambien is the only sleep medication that helps me. I've found I sometimes have to take Ambien if I have several nights in a row of RLS.

Years ago a medication for RLS was released, the brand name was "Requip" (generic: ropinirole). The first night it seemed a miracle but quickly the side effects made the medication worse than RLS. I would forget where I was at times, my RLS symptoms "augmented" in that I started having RLS during the day (which I'd never had before taking Requip). So I'd be really careful with the dopamine agonists like Requip or Mirapex.