How do you say it?

[rthom]

What is the acceptable way of saying WED to a worse degree? I try to be PC but find myself tripping over my tongue--trying not to offend or hurt feelings. Ideas?

[badnights]

Not sure what you mean.
There are clinically accepted terms: intermittent RLS, moderate RLS, severe RLS.

Unfortunately, the severity is only defined in terms of frequency - something silly like having symptoms more than twice per week is called severe.

There is currently no measure I know of that measures

• intensity of sensation,
• amount of body affected, or
• amount of time during a typical day that is taken up with feeling those sensations,

all of which are just as important aspects of severity as frequency. Whether daily or once-per-month RLS, those other aspects of severtiy also vary among people (and over time for one person), and we currently have no formal way of describing them. I wish someone would try to develop a formal measure for those three aspects of severity.

[rthom]

makes sense to me, but this is helpful.