Medication to avoid

[Stelladevico]

Can anyone give me a list of medications that cause or aggravate

RLS please? I have sciatica starting up again and want to make sure the consultant doesn’t prescribe anything to make my RLS worse.

[Madlegs1]

I replied to a similar question a few weeks ago, but I can't find my post history-- used to be in my profile, but HU seem to have changed everything around.

Try looking in these two sites.

rlshelp.org

rls-uk.org

[Stelladevico in reply to Madlegs1]

Thank you. I thought I had seen a post about meds but couldn’t find it’s now I know why.

[Elffindoe]

AS far as I'm aware the list includes

Antidepressants

Sedating antihistamines, (as found in anti-allergy meds, cough medicine and over the counter sleeping aids)

Neurolopetics (antipsychotics)

Some ant-emetics e.g. metoclopramide

Proton pump and H2 inhibitor antacids

Beta blockers

Some meds for high blood pressure

Some statins

A better way of looking at it is to identify what meds you are taking or have been advised to take and then checking if that individual med is likely to make RLS worse.

[Stelladevico in reply to Elffindoe]

Thank you

[murano]

Hi i just brought a book on RLS as my partner a Dialysis patient has RLS iwill at the book tonight and let you know later what the book recommends.

[Stelladevico]

Thank you. Look forward to hearing more when you have read the book. I really hope there is something to help your partner who has enough to cope with without RLS.