Welcome to our RLS (Restless Legs Syndrome) Support Group
INFORMATION ON OUR NEXT MEETING
The Montecito
Center (NEW LOCATION)
12341 Montecito Road, Rossmoor, CA 90720
For more information on the new location
Click the link to view the minutes of our last meeting.
Refreshments
will be served.
For more
information, contact Susan Schlichting,
So. California RLS Support Group Leader,
at (310) 792-2952 or email susan@rlsgroups.org
RLS PATIENT LETTERS AND MEDICAL REPLIES SECTION
Read letters from RLS patients
describing their problems and replies from an RLS medical expert.
Click
the pages below to read the letters and replies.
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Important: To receive a response
to your email letter, please use complete sentences with correct spelling (use
your spellchecker), punctuation and grammar. Avoid abbreviations (do not use Dr or doc instead of doctor or yrs instead
of years), incomplete words and do not use ALL CAPS or no capitals
(like i instead of I or for the first word of a sentence). Email letters that
do not follow these rules will not be read and will not receive a response.
EXPERT MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS FOR RLS
Need help for your RLS?
If you live
near southern California, Dr. Mark Buchfuhrer,
is available for consultations for both pediatric and adult RLS
patients. Dr. Buchfuhrer is a sleep and RLS specialist who has
co-authored several books and articles on RLS, has performed many research
studies on RLS and has lectured around the country.
If you wish to
see him for a consultation in his office, contact his office at the address
below:
Mark J.
Buchfuhrer, M.D.
11480 Brookshire Avenue, Suite 108
Downey, CA 90241
Tel: 562-904-1101
RLS MEDICAL ALERT CARDS
Download a free pintable copy (in Microsoft Word) of our RLS Medical Alert Card (updated 8/14/14)
Or in a PDF file
These cards contain a list of all the drugs that make RLS worse and alternative drugs that are "RLS Friendly".
You should print extra cards and give one to all of your doctors to avoid them from prescribing drugs that will trigger your RLS.
Information about this card and how to order a hard
copy of the card
RLS TREATMENT PAGE
The RLS/PLMD Treatment Page - Comprehensive Review of drugs
used to treat RLS and PLMD. This page contains all the drugs and
different therapies used to treat RLS and PLMD and goes over them in detail.
If you want to search
our site for any information please type it in the box below then click the
"search" button.
OTHER INTERESTING RLS LINKS
Overview of the
diagnosis & treatment of RLS List
of other names used by patients to describe RLS
RLS Books
RLS
news and events Links
to other sleep disorders and RLS websites
Minutes of our last & all
previous meetings View
pictures of our old meetings
Info on the RLS Foundation, Inc. Coping with RLS Picture Page RLS Poems
For an updated version of underwater pictures, click this
link