>I wrote this to Cathy but it is too general for the list I put it on so I thought I would put it here. I am battling them tonight so am typing while standing up. Hope this helps someone.
> Cathy, Hope things are going better for you. I am writing because I have
> restless legs so bad that I take medication for them. However, sometimes I
> take my medicine too late and they have already started "twitching" so
> I will tell you something to try. This may sound strange and I don't know why it works,
> but if you take a bar of green palmolive soap and put it under your sheet where your feet can touch it, it will help a lot. I don't
> know why. Once when I was visiting my sister in law my arms and legs both had that strange feeling and were jerking around.
> I went downstairs and found a bar of green
> soap, ( it wasn't Irish Spring as they had that too) and put it under the sheet and almost immediately
> not only my legs but my arms(!) stopped their moving. I don't even think it was palmolive so try any soap you have, but
> I think real soap not detergent is what you are supposed to use. I read
> this in the newspaper one time and even my Doctor couldn't believe it
> worked, but in a pinch I still go for soap. Nancytroi