"Restless leg syndrome"

Yep. It can be really bothersome actually; people who have it may have great difficulty falling asleep. The diagnosis is easy: Are there creepy, crawly feelings in your legs that go away when you move them? These feelings are annoying and sometimes painful. It is more common in older people, in people who have iron deficiency/anemia, and in people who have kidney failure with dialysis.

Some people are miserable for years before they are diagnosed. Once they are prescribed effective medication, however, relief is quick. This is also true of other sleep disorders. My professor used to complain that even doctors are uninformed about sleep disorders and let patients go decades without treatment that would vastly improve their quality of life, but that is a somewhat different discussion....

I too find RLS to be a load of crap. If you got the urge to move, go for a *bleeping* run then.

Well, these people do get up and walk around. That eases the feelings. But when they stop, the feelings return. The issue is this: If they walk (or run) around all night, they won't get any sleep. And this is the issue -- RLS leads to insomnia, which leads to chronic fatigue.

Is there anything that is not a desease anymore.

You no longer have a short attention span you have ADHD.

You no longer are odd but you have asperger's syndrome.

You no longer are a bad kid but you have oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder?

When will it end?

RLS keeps me awake at night wrote:

I too find RLS to be a load of crap. If you got the urge to move, go for a *bleeping* run then.

For a while i thought i actually had this, then it occurred to me that the symptoms only occur when i either take 2 days off, or run REALLY slow. So, i have mixed feeling about the validity of this "disease".

RLS can be a TERRIBLE feeling -- a literally crawling, tickling feeling in your legs. I notice that it tends to afflict me when I'm doing high mileage (20+ miles a day) and not eating enough.

all three of those conditions you noted are very real. the problem is that many of them are overdiagnosed by pushy people (parents usually) telling doctors to find something wrong with them so they can receive special accommodations. it's the exploitation of the system that's messed up - the conditions are real.

Catholic boy wrote:

Is there anything that is not a desease anymore.

You no longer have a short attention span you have ADHD.

You no longer are odd but you have asperger's syndrome.

You no longer are a bad kid but you have oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder?

When will it end?

The Church says being gay is a disease. Does that mean I'm sick?

cuz I feel fine.

It is a precursor of Parkinson's.

Parkinson's get relief from Requip.

She's got the jimmy-legs.

I was diagnosed with Restless Leg Syndrome.

Its a bunch of bullshit.

All I did was change my diet, and my sleep habits, and everything took care of itself.

Do not take medicine for it if they offer it, or prescribe it. They are just trying to make money.

Do what I did. Change your diet, and your sleep schedule.

The only reason this is happening is because you are not getting to the last stages of sleep, so your body is not paralyzed.

It is not the other way around as they would have you believe.

I don't know if I would call it a disease per se, but it's definitely real. In fact, I'm experiencing it right now. It tends to happen when I'm training hard... Maybe I become anemic. The thing is, though, while moving does help, it doesn't make the sensation disappear entirely. It's really bad when I'm at work and worse when I'm trying to sleep and I get it. Sometimes I get it for no other reason than I know I'm not really able to move my legs; in a long car trip or sitting at a cramped desk (like at work).

This is where Estelle sleeps, she has the jimmy leg.

When I would get it, I would just tighted my leg muscles and keep them that way until they became on the verge of cramping. That would make it generally go away. Tires the muscle out.

While restless legs are not bullcrap, I would't put it up as a disease.

When my mileage exceeds 60 mpw, I get it wicked: wakes me up in the night, gotta go stretch, walk around, etc. Immediate remedy: I go for a jog, or run my legs under cold water. But the real remedy is pretty simple: more magnesium + calcium in the diet.

That said, if I were an old guy--and not a runner (i.e., w/o obvious remedy)--I could see it driving someone nuts.

Oh it's real alright.

http://www.dcmsonline.org/jax-medicine/2001journals/March2001/RLS.htm

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/od/sleepapnea/a/central.htm

I've suffer from centeral sleap apnea for 10 years now and recent polysomnography reports show RLS and PLMS(periodic limb movements of sleep) have increased in frequency in the last 2 years. Although I had manifested some signs over the years it was deemed minor. Since the last tests I took Mirapex for a while but the rare(5-15%) side effect of hallucination forced me to abandon it.I actually caught myself unpeeling a virtual(hallucinated) orange seemingly in midair and tried to stuff a grape (marble? round object?) back in my mouth while it was rolling(I thought) along my chin. Needless to say we are looking at a less powerful solution to my problem.

in the words of Chris Rock: "Do you go to sleep at night? And wake up in the morning?" Then we got a pill for you. It's medical garbage.

wineturtle wrote:

Central.fixed

Oh it's real alright.

http://www.dcmsonline.org/jax-medicine/2001journals/March2001/RLS.htmhttp://sleepdisorders.about.com/od/sleepapnea/a/central.htm

I've suffer from central sleap apnea for 10 years now and recent polysomnography reports show RLS and PLMS(periodic limb movements of sleep) have increased in frequency in the last 2 years. Although I had manifested some signs over the years it was deemed minor. Since the last tests I took Mirapex for a while but the rare(5-15%) side effect of hallucination forced me to abandon it.I actually caught myself unpeeling a virtual(hallucinated) orange seemingly in midair and tried to stuff a grape (marble? round object?) back in my mouth while it was rolling(I thought) along my chin. Needless to say we are looking at a less powerful solution to my problem.

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My whole family has RLS, although I don't have it bad at all. All the time when I am sitting still I have to keep a leg, preferably the left, moving, or else it gets tingly, and starts hurting after a few minutes. According to others it even moves when I am sleeping.

That said, I definitely would not call it a "disease" or "syndrome". I usually just tell people I can't really stop my leg and I'm weird like that.

It is definitely real though. I would say it's probably like OCD, where lots of people have a little of it, and it majorly affects a few people.