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Aside from Dopamine, Are there Other Things To Do for Restless Legs Syndrome?

Aside from Dopamine, Are there Other Things To Do for Restless Legs Syndrome? (0:24)

There are other medications which can help with restless legs syndrome, explains Melissa Houser, MD, a neurologist at Scripps Health. RLS is often present in Parkinson's patients.

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There are, you can give Levadopa/g itself. Some of the medicines that we use for fibromyalgia or neuropathy like gabapentin are effective in restless leg syndrome. There's sleep medication like the benzodiazepine for the vallium class are effective, and if you don't want to go the medication route, I hear having sex before bed is very good.

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