Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

If you do read the literature, you will learn that the most defining feature of the syndrome is discomfort relieved by movement . It is classified as a MOVEMENT DISORDER . RLS is a disorder that is defined by unpleasant sensations in the limbs (most usually the legs, but occasionally the arms ...

Essential Diagnostic Criteria
According to the 2003 report from the workshop,[1] four criteria are essential to the diagnosis of RLS:

An urge to move the legs. The urge is usually accompanied or caused by uncomfortable and unpleasant sensations in the legs.
The urge to move and unpleasant ...

Excrutiating pain and genital and or facial symptoms are not part of the restless leg syndrome. These symptoms (excrutiating pain/facial/genital), no matter how they are induced or sustained, no matter what the person's pain tolerence, would preclude, ie. rule out, a diagnosis of RLS.

Diagnostics ...

My original post was in response to someone who was seeking advice.
Since the person was seeking advice, I responded with advice.

No one is compelled to follow my advice. No one is compelled to follow anyone's advice. If there is coercion involved, it would not be called advice, it would be called ...

I don't know where this board is located. But, it is 12:51 p.m. EST where I am located, not 10:51 p.m.

All I can say is that I was responding to someone seeking advice. What I wrote is my heart felt best advice. It isn't angry. It isn't crazy. It isn't any more judgemental than anyone else's advice. Of course it involves a decision on my part, based on my own negative experiences. That is how ...

It has been my experience that doctors and medications almost always make whatever is wrong with you far worse. And, it doesn't matter what is wrong with you, mental or physical. If they do manage to remove something that needs to be removed, like a gall bladder say, they put you through absolute ...

Buy a leg message machine for $100. Use it every night. Works great. No side effects.

Believe me, I wouldn't bother to wrap both of my legs from the hip to the foot and then cover myself in magnets every night for years and years if I just had a half hour of twitching before bed. I know exactly what it's like to experience severe restless leg symptoms every night, all night, and ...

Can a brain injury trigger RLS? Obviously.

Northern Russia is not considered Northern European. That classification refers to people from Great Britain, Scandinavia, Greenland, the Netherlands ie. Celtic/Viking stock. It's refers to countries north and west of Germany.

"Can't live a productive life" with RLS because of daytime symptoms? Wow, sounds like you really are a very, very special and unique case.
I never knew RLS was actually a matter of survival. Please, do keep fighting the good fight. I'd hate to lose one of my fellow comrades in twitching for the lack ...

Yes Anne, I will take note of the fact that some people have Restless Leg Syndrome of the "genitals and face" and it's fairly obvious that there may be some problem with iron in the brain of some sufferers. Thank you for your informative reply.

All of these populations have conditions that cause a diminishment of the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood and/or the build up of toxins in the blood. Many people also complain that they have much worse RLS after exercise. That is certainly my experience. As we know, aerobic exercise causes a ...

Get a leg massage machine. It's the only thing that works. Or even better, get someone who will faithfully massage your legs every night for 20 minutes. Either one.