Hello all. I'm new here, and I've been reading/scanning a lot of the previous comments from everyone.
My experience is RLS for the last 4 years or so. I got on Requip a few months ago, taking up to 4 mg per night as needed. I have it in both legs, sometimes even in my arms and face. It physically exhausts me and I usually end up calling off work the next day. Thanks Bill Clinton for the FMLA or I'd have -0- leave time and be out lots of pay.
I think I've experienced "sleep paralysis" sometimes because of RLS. There are mornings I wake up after having a bout and I literally can't move. I can THINK about moving, I can TELL myself to get up, but my body absolutely will NOT move. I need more info on that condition.
I also have Fibromyalgia, which seems to sort of be tied into RLS. Diagnosed with Fibro in 1997.
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I swear this RLS has happened because of the computer age: we sit all day long at a computer so our body doesn't get any exercise, then at night our legs are "restless" and need some activity, so they take it upon themselves to "exercise" by shaking all night. If it were only so simple.
Anyway - I'm reading as much info as I can from all of you and it's terrific to be part of a group that understands this incredible malfunction of the body!! I get these "yea, sure" looks from my boss when I call off work from having RLS the night before. I need to print some of this stuff and show them - people don't believe this thing can be so debilitating!!
I have lots of ailments, but if I could get rid of JUST ONE, this would be it.
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