Ok lets start with the whopper, I have restless legs, have had this since I can remember. For the last year I have taken medicine for it, called Sinemet. The medicine worked like a charm, my legs went from feeling like they had bugs running up and down my bones, to dead weight. IT was wonderful. For the first time in my life I was getting good sleep at night!!! Good Hard sleep, not the light sleep I had been dealing with for YEARS. I also lost my innate ability to take a nap when and where ever I wanted. Which had its ups and downs, but mainly I was happy to be sleeping right at night. Finally 8 hours of sleep meant, 8 hours of sleep, for the longest I just thought we all laid down in bed for 8 hours and maybe got 4 hours of sleep or so if we had a good night. (Part of the reason it took me so long to get diagnosed? I didn’t know anything was wrong! I thought it was NORMAL.)

Anyways my prescription for my leg medicine has since run out, and I could call the doctor in Tennessee and see about getting a new prescription, but its been a year and I don’t know if she will want to see me again, and I am also hoping maybe I can get my new health insurance to pay for it. (and there’s another reason but I haven’t put that reason up here yet, so can’t go into it.) Well its been rough the last few days, I was up one night till 3:30am. Restless legs have a tendency to get worse right about bed time, between 10-12 and then get better closer to 3-4 am. Its weird, but that’s the way this weird dopamine imbalance works.

So after that night I couldn’t take it, so I started searching the net for homeopathic ways to relieve this, or things I could do at home to get myself some sleep. Well I found a few, homeo wise I read calcium has a tendency to help, which made sense to me, as I had been drinking a lot of milk lately, and then slacked off a bit, and the legs started getting icky again. I also read places were people had found that hot baths, leg exercises before bed, and massage help. So I decided I wanted sleep and two nights ago, I tried all of these, took a hot bath, massaged my legs in the bath, drank a glass of cold milk before bed, and did calf exercises. It worked, I only had to wake up in the middle of the night twice to use the restroom, which I have been having to do lately.

Wow, and it was a hard sleep that I got, I was so happy, but then the next morning I had a thought, what had done it? Was it one thing or all things, and being the scientific that I am, figured it should be experimented on to find out, then my sleep meter kicked in and said, SORRY we do not wish to have even one sleepless night anymore. So I decided my nightly routine will consist of doing all of them, the water bill might not like me for the next little bit, but as soon as I get health insurance hopefully that will all change! Did them all again last night, and once again got sleep!

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