Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) Discussion Board

Hi Chelsea - I also posted a longer reply to the 12 year old with RLS PLMD. Check there. I would love to chat more with you also. I have a chiro friend who thinks there's a homeopathic remedy. I'm too scared to try something like that with my kid. You will find out so much from your sleep study. We ...

Hi - I'm in Minnesota and we've been doctoring with pediatric sleep specialist Dr. Gerald Rosen - Children's Hosp. St. Paul. He's published many times in the Journal of Pediatric Medicine on verious issues involving sleep disorders and RLS. My son had his sleep study 1/21 and his PLM's were over 20 ...

I've learned that RLS will be diagnosed with 5 per hour.

My son was just diagnodes after a sleep study. He has an average of 20 per hour.

My 7 y.o. was also just diagnosed with RLS. He went in for a sleep study and was found to have PLMD 20 times per hour on average. Typically a RLS diagnosis would be made with 5 times per hour limb movements. It shocked us. We know he was tired beyond his control but with 11 hours of sleep we couldn'...