living with my symptoms

My system started about 10 years ago and would come and go. This year has been a daily, on going, rough time. I would take ibuprofen, put icy hot on my legs and wrap my legs wirh a heating blanket. Sometimes this would work... I diagnosed my self due to my symptoms not knowing that many suffered with it as well. Family members would say I had poor circulation and I needed to exercise but that made it worse. I spoke with my GP and she said pretty much the same thing and I needed to eat a banana a day for potassium. That didn't work. I finally was telling a family member about it and they said there is medicine out there that helps. I went back to my GP and told her about the medication and I had a couple family members who suffered the same thing and she finally gave me a prescription for Requip which does help 99% of the time. Puts me to sleep and hate that sometimes so I try to take it at night. I wish there was something other than a prescription that would help!!