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After years of suffering, I have only just found out what I suffer from.

Does anyone else suffer this or know of any others that do?

What works for you?

Cheers all

depends, what is it?

It's when one of your legs becomes really well muscled and starts to hit people in the forhead with it's knee or wrap itself around their throats.




EDIT- Oops. sorry. That's wrestlers leg syndrome.

People typically describe the unpleasant sensations of restless legs syndrome as "deep-seated, creeping, crawling, jittery, tingling, burning or aching" feelings in their calves, thighs, feet or arms. Sometimes the sensations seem to defy description. People usually don't describe the condition as a muscle cramp or numbness. Common characteristics of the signs and symptoms include:

Origination during inactivity. The sensation typically begins while you're lying down or sitting for an extended period of time, such as in a car, airplane or movie theater.
Relief by movement. The sensation of RLS lessens if you get up and move. People combat the sensation of restless legs in a number of ways — by stretching, jiggling their legs, pacing the floor, exercising or walking. This compelling desire to move is what gives restless legs syndrome its name.
Worsening of symptoms in the evening. Symptoms typically are less bothersome during the day and are felt primarily at night.
Nighttime leg twitching. RLS is associated with periodic limb movements of sleep (PLMS). Doctors used to call this condition myoclonus, but now they refer to it as PLMS. With PLMS you involuntarily flex and extend your legs while sleeping — without being aware you're doing it — often resulting in a restless night's sleep for your bed partner. Hundreds of these twitching or kicking movements may occur throughout the night. If you have severe RLS, these involuntary kicking movements may also occur while you're awake. PLMS is common in older adults, even without RLS, and doesn't always disrupt sleep. More than four out of five people with RLS also experience PLMS.
Most people with RLS find it difficult to get to sleep or stay asleep. Insomnia may lead to excessive daytime drowsiness, but RLS may prevent you from enjoying a daytime nap.

Although restless legs syndrome doesn't lead to other serious conditions, symptoms can range from bothersome to incapacitating. In fact, it's common for symptoms to fluctuate in severity, and occasionally symptoms disappear for periods of time.

RLS can develop at any age, even during childhood. Many adults who have RLS can recall being told as a child that they had growing pains or can remember parents rubbing their legs to help them fall asleep. The disorder is more common with increasing age.

Oh right. I do that thing that irritates other people sometimes, bouncing a leg up and down, but it's not to elevate any ache or cramp.

sounds unpleasant. must get nasty sat in a live MTT for long periods. When playing I have a habit of crossing my legs at the ankles UNDER my chair. It puts a lot of pressure on my thigh and groin muscles, but I don't notice because I'm concentrating on the game. Sometimes I can hardly drive home because of the pain in my legs.

Yes Adam it is nasty - very hard at night when the "pain" keeps you from sleeping no matter how tired you are.

Playing poker is ok as you can move your legs around and relieve the "pain"

The sleep depravation leads to more problems though, including mood swings.

There are many theories as to what causes this but no definitive answer yet.

Many drugs can be prescribed, but only work for certain people - the list of drugs is endless including Morphene!!

If it's not a result of a side effect to prescribed medication, RLS is usually derived from some sort of anxiety.
Treatment success is often limited. Typically a benzodiazepine will be prescribed. You can also use some psychology sessions to find the source of the anxiety.

I used to get this a lot in my early teens, but just seem to have grown out of it.  I remember it being very annoying.  Hope you find some way of making it more managable.

This is just one of many theories , like alcohol consumption, eating chocolate etc......

Truth is, the cause is not known and neither is a cure.

TY me too.

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suffer from this myself very often, usually the more tired i get the worse the uncomfortableness is, thus stopping me from sleeping.

i was told a few years ago its because i have heavily muscled legs through years of playing football and is due to the increased blood circulation around the muscles.

do any of you other sufferers have big legs?

Paul, a few years ago (well alot of years ago lol) I was told I had shin splints and had a radiotherapy course. It was caused by playing alot of sports - so they said

The "pain" I had then is the same as I have now - so what a waste of time the radiotherapy was.

Hot baths right before bed are supposed to ease the pain.

I have been doing alot of searching the WWW for info on RLS and I am suprised how many people are prescribed morphene for this condition!

also suffered shin splints for 2 years in my mid 20s when i had to rest from all sports to recover.

i wonder if the shin splints are linked?

Ive not seen anything linking it to shin splints.

But it does seem to be hereditary (sp?)

lucky bastards