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Originally Posted by rainbow676
Thanks, everyone, for these very interesting posts. My mom has PD and restless legs are one of her symptoms. We ordered benfotiamine and she is going to start it as soon as it arrives.
Zanpar, are you still noticing that benfotiamine helps your restless legs?
I have read that a racing heart is one side effect. Did anyone here experience that?
Thanks again!
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Hi Rainbow.
Yes so far Benfotiamine seems to help my restless leg pretty well. Be sure to ask your doc of course to make sure it's ok for your mom. Keep in mind though that everything ingested will potentially affect your body. I am on a lowered sugar, gluten free diet as well. Sugar depletes Thiamine so my theory is that the high sugar intake that most folks ingest may be at the heart of the Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzeimers problem. I started out on a lowered dose (250 mg) and then increased it over time. I'm taking 500-750mg per day now.