Restless leg syndrome?

[Phentex]

There was a thread in GD the other day with some really interesting information. I heard about RLS and ADD connection years ago and it does not surprise me at all. I do not suffer from it severely but when I do, it can be the most annoying thing in the world. I have to get out of bed and move or I just toss and kick and wake up my husband.

I have never figured out why it happens to me and none of the things in the articles I read explain the connection for me OTHER than I know my mother had it.

Do you ever experience it? What have you tried to ease it?

[seabeyond]

1. i do. i have for a lifetime. i shake foot to get to sleep.

but what is really odd, is the last year or so, it has gone to my arms periodically.

is is very frustrating.

i will to leg exercises to get it out of the legs. tightening muscles repeatedly. that seems to help.

i did not see the article from gd you are talking about.

[Phentex]

4. OP was saying his wife suffers terribly and insurance won't cover the expensive

medication. Lots of people gave information about supplements, such as magnesium, and other ideas. The thread was really about insurance so I didn't weigh in there. But it did make me search the web a little and many articles mention ADD.

Do you notice it more at night? I sometimes just get it while I'm sitting. Worse time is at the movies or a school event. I just want to cut my legs off!

[seabeyond]

5. like crawlies inside the leg. i hear ya.

mostly at night. mostly late to bed. a long day.

it is the arms that are bugging me. i cant just shake, like foot. but really manageable doing tightening leg muscle exercise. like i said. it is mostly at extreme exhaustion, so the very frustrating is i do not go to exercise, just lake there shaking them cause all i want to do is go to sleep.

[Lilyhoney]

2. I have it.

It seems to come and go with no identifiable trigger. It was awful when I was pregnant. I have tried baths, massage and just riding it out. I don't know if any relatives have it, but I do think my four year old has it.

There have been threads here on DU where people call bullshit on the condition. I for one know it exists. Sorry you have to experience it, it is quite unpleasant.

Lilyhoney

[Phentex]

3. My husband said he had never heard of it until...

he met me. I wondered if he really understood what I was talking about. Then they started playing commercials about it on tv and I think he accepted that I wasn't just crazy.

The symptoms can be different for different people. I don't have the pain some get. I just get the almost cramping feeling and the need to move my legs. It's a weird sensation.

[seabeyond]

6. i am the only with parents, two brothers, nieces and nephews, sons. so, i do not see it

as a family thing.

add, adhd, type fuzzy brain behavior runs in a line of family.

[DavidG_WI]

7. Is this the same thing as

a nervous twitch? Because I can't sit for more then about 2 minutes without bouncing my leg, 99% of the time I don't even know I'm doing it. Everyone thinks I'm nervous, when I'm doing it, but I'm not, I can't not do it, if I don't have at least one leg going then tension in the muscles will build in one of them till it starts to hurt, even causing it to cramp up on me.

Though for it to happen in bed is rare, it's like a once every 2-3 months thing where while I'm in bed that for no reason at all and no real warning my leg will just randomly kick.

Side notes: a girlfriend of mine used to hate it, till she realized what it could do for her since I can easily bounce over 300Lbs on my leg, as I and a friend tried to figure out what could physically stop it if I couldn't, we ran out of weights... And my leg didn't stop.

[Phentex]

8. I never thought of harnessing it!

But the random kick is one way to describe it.

I don't have the bouncy foot/leg as much as I used to but I noticed my son does this, too. You don't even know you're doing it until someone asks you to stop.