I have this and it`s not fun. With the husband in Iraq I no longer have my middle of the night person to rub my legs. Thank god my doctor takes pity and gives me some realllly good drugs to help. As funny as it sounds ( and I know it does ) it is real.

"About 80 percent of people with RLS also have a more common condition. It is periodic limb movement disorder, which involve involuntary leg jerking or twitching movements during sleep."

My father in law has this and uses Klonopin to help him sleep. It sounds very bothersome.

I wonder if amputees with RLS still experience the symptoms? That would have to suck. Of course, not having a leg would suck, too. There are always bionic legs, I guess. You'd have to be pretty careful if you have RLS and a bionic leg.

I'm an Agitated Knee Bouncer -- is that similar?

She's got the Jimmy legs.

my leg wants to kick your ass

Reading the headline I thougt I had this problem but upon reading the article I see I don't.

I always find myself shaking my leg or my foot when I'm sitting down, it almost appears to be a nervous twitch but I'm not nervous because it's just something I constantly do.

It's not a borthersome problem or anything but I'm curious if anyone has this problem?

Hm, I think I've experienced this. When you're about to fall asleep and you just dozed off, and then your leg jerks violently enough to wake you up.

I've scared the piss out of both myself and my roommate before like that.

Well played, RandyJohnson.

Warchild

The tiny font is what made your post hilarious.

I'm sure I have RLS. Sometimes I just have to get up and walk around no matter what I'm doing or how tired I am.

I have this as well. It can be very annoying.

I find smoking a joint helps tremendously.

So I see my dad reading a book and say, "What are you reading?" This was when he gave me a 15 min. talk on RLS, he is a MD. This is also the last time I asked him what he was reading.

Lippsy_Canada


I have this as well. It can be very annoying.

I find smoking a joint helps tremendously.

Insta-cure for anything.

I have this, though never diagnosed. It comes and goes and sometimes stays for weeks at a time. I've had a few sleepless nights because of it. I was very scared at first thinking that it might be the onset of MS or something like that. After reading up on my symptoms I self diagnosed it as this. Oddly enough, when I am having a bout that lasts a few weeks alcohol seems to be the best remedy (I guess it really does dull the nervous system). I can imagine any doctors out there cringing right now.

I also have RLS,drives me absolutely crazy. Mineral supplements and totally cutting caffeine have given me some relief,but more often than not - you'll find me up and pacing around in the middle of the night.

AcadianSidhe:

I find smoking a joint helps tremendously.

Insta-cure for anything.

Cancer? Hooray!

Maybe this is why my gf kicked me in the nuts while she was sleeping.

"RESTLESS leg syndrome is not something you get after listening to "These Boots Are Made for Walking," the 1960s pop classic Lee Hazelwood wrote for Nancy Sinatra."

Shoot me in the face now. What a HORRIBLE beginning to an article.


Furthermore, I have known people that have had similar symptoms. Pretty sad, really.

a prescribed cure for this is cabergoline. it has...unusual side affects

www.cabergoline.com

you may laugh, but trials for this drug were stopped cos the spouse couldnt handle it any more

And all this time I thought my leg was posessed by demons.

I do actually have this. Its bordering on parkinsons.. every time I lay down my left leg twitches... it drives you mad.

Sometimes I just run up to people and bite them for no reason.

I don't think this is the same thing though.

I think that this may be a catch-all syndrome for a number of different symptoms. My experience is that just as I am drifting off to sleep my calf will have an uncontrollable spasm that hurts a little, but not very much. Usually when I am having trouble with this it will happen 5-10 times before I can finally get to sleep. It will usually occur on consecutive nights, sometimes lasting a couple of weeks, and then go away for awhile (the last time I had trouble was last July I think).

I suffer more from WFTCS. That's "Wrestle For The Covers Syndrome".

2004-03-07 02:01:47 PM kronicfeld

I can relate. I have Restless Penis Syndrome.

Let me guess, the symptoms go away by rubbing it?

i thought it was 'jake-leg'

mtman900

I agree. Half of the opening paragraph was wasted on a stupid joke, the other half was wasted trying to explain the stupid joke.

In other news, acid use appears to be on the rise.

THEY'RE CRAWLING ON ME! THEY'RE UNDER MY SKIN!

/just call me Ms. Insensitivity

kronicfeld beat me to the obvious pun... restless penis syndrome...



"Drop dead legs" by Van Halen playing in my head

However, if you feel the need to rest upon a desk or table leg and twitch your epileptic ass all over the place, I will stab your leg with my pen.

oh man i have the periodic one. its farkin awful. i remember i got it once when i was a kid in a hotel room with my parents and they were getting mad at me cuz i couldnt lay still. i told them my legs felt weird but they told me to shut up and go to sleep.

I have this a lot, in my Right Leg. I have constant numbness in my leg from about the thigh down to my toes. Then there is the constant pinching in that one leg. I can't stretch it no matter what. I went to physio and the physiotherapist said she had never seen such tight leg muscles in her whole career. I am afraid to drive, because my leg is constantly numb. I have had multitude of tests done over the last couple of years. Oh ya, I had cancer, Burkitts Lymphoma when I was 5, I am 22 now. Ever since I was about 17 or so, I have been having these problems. I cracked my pelvis, lke 3 months after I was cured in the same leg. I have not been medicated for over a year now, because nothing works. Morphine, Celebrex, Toradol.... etc..
Well back to watching Mr. Nice Guy =)

Mark me down for RDS. (you figure it out)

I'm bothered by Third Leg Syndrome. Lots of odd looks.

I have this too. When I went to an acupressurist, he suggested to me that the source of the problem may not be the legs, but a pinched nerve in the lower back. Hope that helps.

The article suffers from TMI syndrome on the music anthology of the Nancy Sinatra songs.
RESTLESS leg syndrome is not something you get after listening to "These Boots Are Made for Walking," the 1960s pop classic Lee Hazelwood wrote for Nancy Sinatra

There's also symptoms of 'Don't know percentages syndrome'
10 to 15 of every 100 people
2 in 100

Furthermore, Did anyone notice the article went from Journalism to a chat room conversation?

/I just can't stop dancing...

2004-03-07 01:50:41 PM MisterLegato

I always find myself shaking my leg or my foot when I'm sitting down, it almost appears to be a nervous twitch but I'm not nervous because it's just something I constantly do.

It's not a borthersome problem or anything but I'm curious if anyone has this problem?

Yes. My girlfriend and I both do the same thing.

/...kinky?

Are you ready, boots?
Start walkin'

I have this... I'd like to biatch and moan about how much it sucks, but I'll take it over cancer.

Sex clears it up. I'm not kidding.

I have a mild case of this, it comes and goes.

Absolute worst is having to ask the technician who is giving you an MRI if you can move your legs in between scans because they just feel weird if they aren't moving.

Reading these posts got this song stuck in my head.

She's got legs, she knows how to use them.

/ZZ Top

you mean like that guy who sits behind me on flights and in the movies who won't stop kicking the back of my goddamned seat!?!

(dnrtfa)

I've got restless third-leg syndrome.

Whoop, there it is!

Good one F-14Tomcat

This is not painful it is just enough to drive you crazy. It`s like something shocking the nerves in your legs.

I agree it does sometimes feel as if it comes from the lower back. When I have a spell of it there is no sleeping, you have to get up and pace. A hot bath helps but only while you in it, as soon as you get out it starts again.

I also find a drug called Ultram helps.

yep. this sucks. my mom always called it 'crazy legs', and sure enough, i got it too.

you are just about to fall asleep, and you realize your legs are moving accross the sheets for some reason. repeat 234243 times. sometimes its very hard to get to sleep.

ill try the Ultram thing. i have a stash somewhere.

In the alternative medical field it's not a mystery. It's a food allergy. More money is to be made by selling a pill so it's doubtful the allopathic community will figure it out. They'll keep shilling snake oil.

I kick in my sleep. Violently. It's at the point where I can't sleep in the same bed with other people.

I have this myself, but thankfully it seems to be a mild case. I had no idea what it was until I just now read the article and linked websites. I always thought it was a problem with my legs, and I could never accurately describe the feeling to anyone to get beyond their giving me a "Yeah, you're crazy..." look.

It only comes on once or twice a week for me, usually for no more than a few hours, although once it came on during a 16 hour drive to South Carolina... I'm very sorry to hear that there are those who get this all the time. Well at least now I think a lot of us know what it is, and can watch for treatments or a cure.

I have it.

"Jumpy Leg" as my wife calls it. I'll lay in bed and my left leg will convulse wildly like a huge electric shock is going through it. I feel it coming on and can prevent it with my mind, but the feeling builds up until I just say fark it and let it go for a good couple of kicks.

It's sounds funny, but trust me, it's no fun if you're the one with it.

I have this. I was prescribed mirapex (a parkinson's disease medication) which has fixed everything. I highly recommend mentioning this drug to your doctor if you think you have it. Most doctor's haven't heard of it, but will be more than willing to research it and bit and then probably prescribe it.

It's a pain in the ass everytime I go to the doctor though. Hardly any of the doctors I go to have ever heard of restless leg syndrome or mirapex. But thats what I get for going to Student Health.

I'm sorrier.

I have had RLS my whole life - I find Requip (1mg at bedtime) works fine. Not much in the side-effect department, which is good, except every now and again I get some real wild dreams. Oh wow.

I read the RLS research place thing had a study that made it seem like the place in your brain that produces dopamine isn't getting the iron in the blood. Not that iron is low, just that it isn't getting where it supposed to. I know my iron levels are fine, I got the lab results to prove. Now if they can only secure enough funding to find a farking cure.

....another case study here

... THC has fully relieved my RLS.

No BS!

I get this when I try to sleep on long haul flights. Weird, and rather annoying.

I had some friends of mine back in high school who used to abuse the motion-sickness medicine "Dramamine". They used to complain that they'd be all zoned out in the land of mind movies, then as the drug would be reaching a climax, their legs would begin to twitch.

I wonder if it is related in anyway to RLS./?

I thought the whole headline was a pun.

Expected at least one poster to advise walking around with it was better than sleeping around with it.

Lippsy_Canada,
I have RLS too, and yep, you're right. It's about the only thing that makes me feel better. After 2 neurologists, a few different drugs, a spinal tap (the worst f-ing thing ever - they thought it might be MS, so the tap was to rule that out), I've quit going to the docs and figured I just have to live with it. And the "herbal supplements" help greatly.

WOW! Good to know I'm not the only one with this. Thanks for all the remedy suggestions everybody. I take 1/2mg to 1mg of Clonazepam (generic for Klonopin)before bed. 1/2 helps, 1mg knocks me out. I have it EVERY FARKING NIGHT! Plus on long flights. Hard to understand how annoying it is unless you have it... good luck to all.

I guess I could have a mild case, too. For a while I was ruling it out because it isn't constant, but if it comes and goes, then...It's possible. Sometimes I just can't stop twitching my foot, leg or knee, and I've had those godawful sudden twitches just as I'm falling asleep, too.

Just recently I had a very strange one where both legs jerked at the same time, curling up towards my belly, but staying the same distance apart, and bent at the same angles at the knee, as they'd been before. Wtf?

I'm certain that everyone reading these comments that actually has this is laughing along with some of these comments as I am. The nervous leg shaking that you see everyone doing while sitting down is not the same thing - nor are the sudden involuntary jerking movements.

The best descriptions that I have seen here are those talking about the 'weird feeling' when sitting still. The problem lies in the inability to keep your legs still. While it sucks and is more 'creepy' than anything else, it doesn't really hurt - and moving your leg makes it go away for another few seconds.

More like fingernails on the chalkboard or such. I have never complained about it as simply moving my leg has gotten to be second nature after 30 years. I can see now how it has affected my sleep, but I can think of a hundred other disorders that are a lot worse.

I've got this too, and it's incredibly annoying. I lose sleep probably three nights a week because of it. Sometimes the only way I can get it to stop is to go through a set of excercises and totally wear out every muscle group in my legs. Then it's just a matter of falling asleep before the fatigue wears off and it starts again.

I've taken iron supplements, and that seems to help a bit. I suppose I should see my doctor, but I don't like the new guy I'm stuck with on my company's new medical plan. He always just pulls out his palm pilot, looks something up, and then writes a prescription that the pharmacy has to call me up about later to tell me it doesn't exist.

I've got this as well and you can put me in the THC relief group. People may think I/we are kidding, but taking a couple of tokes relieves this instantly.