New Nighttime Problem

[Jamie]

Gee, if it's not one thing it's ANOTHER!!! I'm doing okay being off the pain medicine, but now at night when I try to go to bed (and I'm tired), I pretty consistently get restless legs....BOTH legs, not just my new knee leg. I just don't understand it. I can get up like now and sit at the computer without them jumping, but if I try to lie down anywhere - bed, couch, recliner - it doesn't work. They started this when I went to bed at 11:30 and it went away after a 10 minute bike ride. But when my husband came into bed at 1:30 it was just enough to wake me a little and it started again. I hate to think I'm going to spend the rest of my life on my bicycle in the middle of the night!! I'll have to get a new nickname instead of Night Stalker and become Night Rider!

Josephine.....any ideas for relief???

 

[klinger]

Hi Jamie, It sounds like "COLD TURKEY!!" to me.

 

[1jt@atime]

Jamie, I too did this for awhile about your stage in the game. I can't remember when it quit, but it did. I think it only lasted about 2-3 weeks. Karen

 

[Jamie]

Hi Jamie, It sounds like "COLD TURKEY!!" to me.

Maybe THAT'S it! Who knows what going "cold turkey" can do to your body for a few days, huh. I just have to say that my process of getting off pain meds is proceeding at a SNAIL'S PACE (LOL, Klinger). Maybe I just need a few walks to the pub to make it all right!

 

[Jamie]

Jamie, I too did this for awhile about your stage in the game. I can't remember when it quit, but it did. I think it only lasted about 2-3 weeks. Karen

Thanks for giving me some hope, Karen. It's tough when all the rest of your body says sleep and your legs won't go there. After getting up for the second time last night with the restless leg problem, I finally decided to try a heating pad on my lower back. Who knows why, but it worked and I was able to go to sleep. I was determined not to have to do a second 10-minute ride on the bike. While I love the exercise and know it's good for me, doing it at 2 a.m. is not my idea of a good time.

 

[beachcomber]

Jamie,
I use a heating pad on my lower back regularly. It seems to help relax my muscles and shuts off after 30 minutes automatically. Glad it worked for you!

 

[Jamie]

Jamie,
I use a heating pad on my lower back regularly. It seems to help relax my muscles and shuts off after 30 minutes automatically. Glad it worked for you!

Someone (it may have been you) suggested it in an old thread and I remembered that last night when I was at my wits end. I would have never believed it would work, but it must have as I was able to sleep. My pad also shuts off after 30 minutes, so there was no worry with going to sleep on it. Tonight, I'm going to just do that first thing when I get in bed. I certainly hope it can be a consistent solution because once that leg stuff stops, I am really able to sleep well now that I'm not taking my pain meds any longer.

 

[Nursepair]

I often use the heat pad on my back, it relaxes me, I might have mentioned it on an earlier thread.

 

[Jamie]

Could be....I remember reading it somewhere. I have those restless legs again this evening and I'm gonna try it again. Or maybe Patti is right and it IS because of the full moon!!

 

[Doug]

My legs are playing with me tonight...I just got up again. I'll try the heating pad too.

 

[Pattipoo]

full moon......

 

[Doug]

You're probably right...
More crime too!!
More babies made!!

 

[beachcomber]

I haven't had the restless leg thing, but am pretty painful bi-lat tonight. I am sitting here with both knees wrapped in ice packs and a heating pad on my back. Took a pill and am hoping to get some sleep in a while. Watching a Harry Potter movie while I am "on ice".

I really, really want one of those "time turner" thingies that Hermione wears in this movie. Oh, the things I would change if I could only go back and do it all again! It is my favorite Harry Potter doo-dad.

 

[Doug]

I've thought about what I would do differently if I could go back. I would probably do much of it exactly the same. I had a blast in athletics and I know without a doubt that knowing martial arts saved my life on a number of occasions.

 

[Doug]

I want some tater chips. Just got the urge for something salty..
Kitchen search and destroy time.

 

[Pattipoo]

mine is genetic.....couldn't change it if I wanted to.

 

[beachcomber]

I'd change some things for sure.... but then I am an "analyzer" personality and tend to beat myself up for decisions I have made in the past and the consequences from those decisions. I suppose that is why I covet the Time-Turner.

 

[beachcomber]

I just had a----- well, okay---- *two* cinnamon buns that Scott made tonight. There are still two more over there on the kitchen counter.....probably a good thing I am "tied down" to this chair by my ice machine! lol

 

[Doug]

Found some Pringles...I shouldn't eat the salt but maybe if no one else sees me it won't count.
Found a neat Bible verse for TKR folks...Isaiah 40:31

 

[Nursepair]

Did you mean this one Doug?

31 but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.