Well I decided I had better introduce myself since I have made some post. My name is Jan and I live in Michigan. In the past 6 months I have had tons of testing done because I started to have severe abdominal pains. Well first trip to the GP nothing, next to the Gyno he found nothing with the female stuff but suggested I had a bladder diease called Interstitial Cystitis. So off to the Uro and sure enough I got IC, ok so I start taking the drugs they give you but I am still tired all the time and ache all the time so I found a new GP. I explained how I was feeling and to top it off my husband has been complaining of me jerking at night so he suggested RLS. So off to the next doc this one sent me for a sleep test.
Well I had that test last night and what a horrible expience that was. The techs talked all night long and everytime I turned around someone was slamming doors. Then that stupid thing they put in your nose made it so I could hardly breath. Horrible horrible
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Well to make a long story short, the tech came in around 3:00, cuz the big IC bladder was saying get to the bathroom
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, and said you had a rough night. Do you think you will be able to fall back to sleep after you go potty? I said probably not. She said well I got what I need if you want to go home and I said yeah. Then she says but I didn't get your legs jerking. I said probably not since I didn't sleep
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. So home I went, now though they will probably say well nothing showed that you have rls, however, my legs contantly go numb and tingle when in the sitting position, riding in the car, or riding on the back of our motorcycle. Then at night they jerk and I know they do cuz when I wake in the morning the backs of my calfs ache like when you use your muscles too much. I've never had such a horrible night as last night. If it's not worse enough you got all those wires attatched to you, you have to hear someone talking all night and doors slamming. I thought the idea was to sleep.
Ok enough of that all things in a nutshell: I am 39 started having problems with my legs when I was a little girl (remember my mom putting heat pacs on them after play). Started having headaches when I was around 14. Developed arthritis when I was around 18. Can never remember a time where I didn't got potty alot. Last but not least now this.
So I would like to say thank you for being out there and for all your words of wisdom.