Restless Legs Syndrome

Which treatment helps me - and what must I know about it?Twelve hundred and fifty questions about treatment, and to each of them a full answer that stands on its own. From the iron store on which the whole treatment hangs to the question of what to do when nothing works any more. No answer assumes another.This second of the four question volumes leads through iron and medicines: ferritin and transferrin saturation, iron as a tablet and as an infusion, the groups of drugs with their dosing and their side effects, interactions, and the substances that make the symptoms worse.Three chapters are given to augmentation, that paradoxical worsening caused by the medicine itself: recognising it, treating it, preventing it. Alongside them stand withdrawal and switching, and the practical questions of prescriptions and costs.What is in the book1250 questions and answers in 20 chaptersFerritin, transferrin saturation and the threshold of 100Iron as a tablet and as an infusionAlpha-2-delta ligands, dopamine agonists, levodopa and opioidsCannabis, herbal remedies, magnesium and supplementsDosing, timing, side effects and interactionsRecognising, treating and avoiding augmentationWhen the treatment does not work, and the practicalities of prescriptions and costsWho this book is forFor patients before, during or after a treatment decision, for everyone whose medicine no longer works as it used to, and for anyone who wants to sort out their questions before an appointment.Volume 50 of 52 in the book series on restless legs syndrome, part 'Questions and Answers'. Every volume can be read on its own.