This is scary until you read the explaination and then it makes sense. And yes, I have documented restless leg syndrome from two sleep studies. I wasn’t a believer in it until they put me on Requip. It seems that some patients respond to it and not to the other medication (which I was on and saw no difference in sleep). Luckly, I still find gambling boring (a side affect of these medications). And a good pun, now that I think about it.
Restless legs and heart… – Blogs – Revolution Health
artery disease. Over 3000 men and women were evaluated in the Sleep Heart Health study, a large ongoing group of patients being evaluated for various sleep disorders. About 7 % of the women and 3.3 % of the men had RLS.These people were then compared to the people without RLS for the likelihood of having either ccronary artery disease (heart attack) or stroke. People with RLS were about 2 times more likely to have one of these conditions.
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