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leg cramps
Published Aug. 25, 2008
. This home remedy mystifies us, but we have heard from many readers like you. The risk of unwrapping a fresh bar of soap and putting it under the bottom sheet where the legs will be is almost zero. The cost is far less than a prescription. Positive responses from other readers experimenting with Ivory soap remedy:
“A while back I wrote to complain that the bar of soap under the bottom sheet quit working for my restless legs. (It was great at first.) Then I got to thinking, it worked before, so why not now? That bar of soap had been there for six months, so I replaced it. The result: no more restless legs. A few times that I had symptoms, I put my feet on the soap and the sensations went away in about two minutes.
“My husband was having severe leg cramps at night. Without telling him, I placed a soap bar under his sheets for two nights before he noticed. It worked! He’s had no more cramps. We still can't believe it! “
“I have had severe leg cramps for years. When I read about putting a bar of soap in bed, I got a bar of Ivory and put it under the bottom sheet near my legs. It’s been a month since I did that, and I have not had one leg cramp.
http://www.peoplespharmacy.org/archives/home_remedies/soap_under_the_sheets_for_rls_leg_cramps.php
I have a friend at work who swears by this. I'm going to try it.
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Lanacane (maximum strength).
Takes about 30 mins to work - you have to rub it all over your legs from just above the knee to the tops of the feet. I dab it on such that my legs look like polka dots.
I'd use it all the time but it gets expensive (one tube does four nights). Fortunately, I have no copay for my RLS meds.
The only downsides - somewhat greasy legs (not too bad) and a slight hangover the next morning.
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