Thank god for Belinda. God bless this woman - such a wealth of information on health, vitamins, skin care, RLS - she just knows it all. This woman is completely awesome. I connected up with her a few years ago when my middle son was getting married. I was all stressed out before the wedding and set-up an appointment for a massage. Believe I went to Belinda for 4 sessions during that time. Just loved her...she is the one that got me started on taking Fish Oil supplements...Just yesterday someone at work asked me why I take fish oil and for the life of me couldn't remember WHY I started only know HOW I started - Belinda.
I also don't know why I set-up another series of sessions with her in February of this year. I'm sure it was because of stress again (was DEEP into my gambling)...Whatever it was that got me there again was a total blessing. I know Belinda and her wealth of knowledge saved me from something that was well on the way of eventually absolutely destroying me.
How the subject of RLS came up between the two of us I don't recall...What I do recall is talking about my RLS and how this med "Mirapex" I was taking was great. She jokingly said..."So did you become a sex addict, a gambler, or a compulsive shopper?!?!" I was just in shock....
"What - did - you - just - say????"
She proceeded to tell me that, "Yeah, its some of the possible side effects - haven't you seen the commercials for it?" I watch very little TV.
It all immediately made sense in that very moment - there was no contemplating about whether there was a connection to my gambling and the drug. IT WAS THE CONNECTION. Before hearing this I had thought - don't know what I thought as I didn't understand WHY I kept going to the casino, WHY I couldn't stop, WHY I was so obsessed with it, WHY I was letting something like going to the casino destroy me when all through the years I fought so hard to get to the point in my life where I was. I thought it was just me. I thought maybe because I was always SO responsible during the years I was raising my sons that since the youngest had just turned 19…I thought it was just maybe a mid life crisis.
I left Belinda that day with a new set of orders for my RLS ..."Order 'Calm' off the Internet - cheaper than the health food stores" and to use lavender oil on my legs, "get some calcium tabs, eat a banana before bed with a glass of milk..." When I went to give her a tip she looked at me with sympathy and gestured to keep it. I told her - "No take it - I'll just be putting it into a slot machine." I went straight to the health food store (wasn't going to wait for it), purchased calcium tabs…then it was off to the casino.
The next day…while doing a search on the Internet… low and behold I wasn't the only one effected by this drug...I wasn't the only one who was a "gambling Mirapex victim." Found out the side effect was serious enough there were law suits going on about it. Later to find out that the lawsuits going on had to do with the fact THIS side effect was kept hidden from the consumers. I flushed the 14 pills down the toilet I had just picked up - remember looking at the bottle thinking "this is why??" I called my doctors office - left message with his assistant to tell him what happened to me. Excitedly told my boyfriend, my family, my friends..."Can you believe that it was a prescribed drug I've been taking that caused me this insanity?!"
I thought my nightmare was finally over.
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