restless leg sydrome combined with crepatis

By Lisa Burke from Clinton, MA on February 15, 2006
Category: Requip (Oral)

I am currently taking clonazepam .05 mgs, at bedtime, for generalized anxiety, to relieve swelling in my brain due to a venous angioma. I am also taking mertrazipine, 30 mgs at bedtime to prevent migraine headaches. There is also a questionable seizure disorder due to crepatis in both of my feet, neck, spine and knees although not in my hands wrists. Rheumatologist have diagnosed Osteoarthritis.

I told my Neurologist that the benzodiazipine triggers me to comsume alcohol, and that I would like to take an alternative drug. The Neurologist told me that he wanted to wean me off of clonazepam and to replace this medicine with one that treats restless leg syndrome.

Reading some of the information on requip has brought to my attention that this drug increases dopamine and lowers gabba. Is this the same thing as taking an antiphysicotic drug. I know that too much dopamine can tirgger tardive disconesia, (question spelling?) an uncontrollable movement of your tongue and/or other body parts. To drecrease the changes of developing this side affect, doctors have learned to prescribe and antidepressant while taking a medicine that increases dopamine.

My resltess leg syndrome, at night, present the following symptoms. While I am trying to go to sleep, I exprerience a somewhat cramping sensation in my legs and arches of both feet. My legs will feel jumpy as if someone were taking a feather and tickling the synovial lining between the the bones in both knees. In additon, I experience severe crepatis in both of me feet including all of the toes.

Prior to taking clonazepam, any time during the day or evening if I so much as moved my feet or my toes I would suffer crepatis. These symptoms occurred 100’s of times during the day and evening. My ex boyfriend was annoyed by this and said the crepatis sounding like, "glass breaking because it was so loud".

I don’t think that I fully understand how increasing dopamine with Requip can help me or serve as an alternative treatment for crepatis. Please explain if and how Requip could treat the symptoms that I have stated above.

Thank you very much,
Lisa Burke

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