Mainly I’m just here to vent.

40 years old and been struggling with RLS for the past 10 years or so. The best free doctors advice I had back when it first started was taking magnesium. Before I started taking it, I was waking up an hour after falling asleep with the soreness in my upper legs and the need to get up and walk around a bit then not much problem getting back to sleep but the wife complains about me kicking. This was happening every single night. I began to learn when the worse nights would happen when the soreness starts earlier in the day. After starting on 500 mg of magnesium, my nights greatly improved almost immediately. Not as much soreness, still waking up every night an hour after falling asleep but not feeling the need to get up and move around and there was less kicking while asleep.

But now it’s getting worse. I can sit still in the evenings, i do some stretches, but the soreness and urge to move in the middle of the night is back and the kicking when I am asleep is bothering my wife.

I figured it’s finally time to talk to the doctor about it and get some real medication. I hate taking prescription medication if I can avoid it and currently not on any. The only things I take is my vitamins, magnesium in the morning and a couple of Tylenol PMs at night.

I’m familiar with the options of medications that are used to treat RLS. My mother suffered from it as well. I just hate that it’s come to this point.