I'm a 22 year old male and suffer pretty damn badly with RLS. I don't suffer from RLS in the day at all, only when i'm trying to get to sleep.
I find the syptoms are accelerated when i'm very tired, and are certainaly worse when i have stayed up later then i should.
I've recently stopped smoking cannabis, and only since then has the RLS returned. I've smoked cannabis everyday for around 6 years, and during that time have only suffered RLS during very short periods of abstinence.
I'm now really struggling with it, i'm sleeping badly and waking up tired!
I have found excersize helps with my RLS, but even after vigorous excersize i can still suffer symptons although never as severe.
I'm interested to see how many of the RLS sufferers do actually complete a couple of hours of physical activity each day. I'm a computer programer, so my job generally inbvloves sitting down and i'm sure this has a severe effect on my RLS.
I'm going to go and see my doctor about this as soon as i can, as i can't count the number of times i've been kept awake since giving up the weed!
Anyway, i've already recieved loads and loads of advice from this wounderful message board so i don't have too many questions to ask. Regardless, i thought i'd leave a post with my random thoughts on in case anyone wanted to comment
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Take it easy,
Chris