#116 - Sleep Unplugged Book Club #1-Navigating Life With Restless Legs Syndrome: Bouncing 'Round the Room
Update: 2024-09-09
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For the first installment of the Sleep Unplugged Book Club, we will examine Andrew Spector's new book Navigating Life with Restless Legs Syndrome. This also marks a revisiting of the topic we covered in episode #13 (Restless Legs Syndrome: You Gotta Move). In this episode we will:
- Introduce Dr. Andrew Spector, a Duke University professor of neurology and restless legs expert
- Update and supplement information from episode #13 of this podcast about restless legs syndrome (RLS)
- Explore the role of iron in RLS and how to use ferritin and transferrin levels to guide potential therapies
- Touch upon the idea that despite different causes of RLS, determining the precise reason why you have RLS may not be particularly essential for choosing therapies
- List new treatment options that are not prescription medications
- Reexamine difficulties and downsides to dopamine agonist therapies
- Cautiously look at the use of benzodiazepines and opioids in perhaps a new light
- Touch upon other prescription medications that might be useful in the disorder
- Mention the relationship between insomnia and RLS
Produced by: Maeve Winter
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