Home remedies · Sleep, nerves & head
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Get up and walk a few steps, stretch the calves, shower cold or warm. Drop caffeine and alcohol in the evening and keep regular bedtimes.
The urge to move the legs eases with movement — that is the hallmark. So what helps is moving, not keeping still.
This is relief for the evening, not treatment. Iron deficiency is one of the few tangible causes and can be measured.
If it wrecks sleep for weeks, it belongs in a conversation — along with ferritin and the medicines you take.
Get seen at once: the sudden, worst headache of your life, headache with fever and a stiff neck, with weakness, speech or vision trouble. Likewise dizziness with double vision or an unsteady gait. Sleeplessness over weeks with loss of drive is something to discuss, not to endure.