Restless Leg Syndrome aka "Jumpy Legs"

lots of bananas

Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, like Restless Leg Syndrome only less severe. Apparently.

yeah, i walk every day, but it only helps for an hour or two afterwards. i've been doing a little yoga too... same thing.

Reading this thread is making my calf muscles twitch like crazy and my ankles feel funny - yes, thinking about it makes it worse.

*well she is an old wife.

I used to find it frightening, but now I just find it irritating. It also seems to affect my whole body, but prodominantly my legs.

After that I'd be afraid of a ghost attack, and I'd clutch the pillow as tight to my head as possible, and put the nose of my stuffed animal (Mr. Rabbit) in my ear, so goblins couldn't whisper to me.

I don't know if I ever slept before the age of 13.

S'pose I should go to the doctor up by Jed.

I think he's making this up/the most of it

-- remy (rem...), December 20th, 2005 12:14 AM. (x Jeremy) (link)

whoa! i got this all the time as a kid and have had it once in a while as an adult (not related to drinking, honestly.) it is crazy.

no restless leg issues though. my mom has it though - it's a neuralgia-type of thing. she changed her diet (to MS diet - low sat fat, no gluten, dairy, legumes, eggs, yeast) and has a (doctor-prescribed) nap every afternoon, so it + the pain doesn't happen very often.

fuck! i think i have this.
i had the worst freaking night. right after i fell asleep i woke up with this crap. i thought i was going crazy or something. i remember this happening to me before but it's been awhile. i hope it goes away again for a long time

i have this only in my left leg. Stretching the leg in weird ways helps for a short while

it's just anxiety, isn't it? I get it sometimes, too, but then I take a sleeping pill and it's all better.

it sux! i haven’t had it in a long time. but i just moved into new apt. so i've been doing all kinds of work, going up and down stairs, lifting shit and painting. so i was totally exhausted and it hit me. i was up until 3 a.m. dead tired but couldn’t get to sleep.

i would usually try smoking some pot but i didn't has any

it's not anxiety, it probably mostly comes from not moving around enough during the day. quinine really helps. have a glass of tonic water, or even a gin and tonic ;) , before bed.

xpost, maybe it doesn't come from not moving your legs enough then!

it's a pretty weird thing.
but any excuse to drink a G & T is all right by me

That seems more like you had depleted your muscle reserves and wd have benefitted from some metallic salts or something. Eat a banana next time and see what happens!

According to this poorly written local paper from Oregon:

"Restless Leg Syndrome: Medical Marijuana Patients’ Say it Works"
Dr. Phil Leveque Salem-News.com

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician and Toxicologist.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - There may be 10 million RLS patients in the U.S. This will be good news to them. I was one of the first doctors to sign up patients for Oregon’s medical marijuana permits. I had patients number 13 and 14.

Through the five years I was able to work before the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners revoked my license, I had between 4 and 6 thousand patients. I never did count them because I saw patients in at least twenty places from the coast to Bend and Klamath Falls in Eastern Oregon.

Why I had to travel all over the state is not a mystery. Other doctors were afraid of their own shadows and big brother to do this. However, eventually 2,200 doctors did shake off their paranoia and finally joined the club. Hoorah.

The original medical marijuana bill in California in 1998 required the following disease entities to get a “permit”: cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, and arthritis.

This was a rather loose list but it did give the doctor the option of recommending it for “any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.” This gave California doctors wide latitude for issuing permits.

Dr. Tod Mikiyuria found after interviewing and/or reviewing about 30,000 patient charts that marijuana was effective for about 200 separate medical entities.

It is difficult for most physicians to believe it could be effective for such a wide variety of conditions, and I as a Professor of Pharmacology took in all this with a grain of salt till I started seeing affected patients. It was one surprise after another. I got over the idea that the patients might be faking it to get a permit because it cost about $150 dollars to go through my clinics and the state charged $100 dollars for the permit. Would the patients fake it if it still cost $250 dollars? I doubt it.

When the first patient came in with “restless leg syndrome” I was bemused for a while. What’s going on here, I said to myself.

I knew that quadriplegics, paraplegics, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy patients had legs that jumped around and marijuana gave them relief. All these seemed to be treated poorly with valium-like drugs and the doses were high enough to be strongly sedative and extremely addicting. It didn’t take many doctor “smarts” to figure out if the restless leg patient said marijuana works, it must be so.

According to T.V. news programs, about 10 million patients have restless legs. Marijuana is a nice, safe, effective medicine. The big problem is that only in eleven states can the patients get a permit to use marijuana legally.

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR DR. LEVEQUE? Email: newsr✧✧✧@salem-n✧✧✧.c✧✧ or simply write a comment at the bottom of the page. You do not have to use your real name if you are not comfortable doing so. We will do our best to have your questions addressed in upcoming segments.

According to T.V. news programs, about 10 million patients have restless legs.

Why the hell do I know this kind of thing is related to myoclonic jerks? (I wish I didn't remember useless words and facts like that and more useful things instead, like the name of my new boss)

Sleep makes me into a big myoclonic jerk. I kicked my dog all unawares last night in my sleep.

ugh

this only happens to me now on nights that i haven't been riding all day. i genuinely need 6-8 hours of exercise or else i'm antsy pants

I had this really bad last week after drinking a small glass of wine before bed. I dozed off and woke up about 30 minutes later and could not get back to sleep. I ended up getting up and reading the webs for an hour before going back to sleep.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j6gI7CHYRrU

i get this bad but ONLY when I take tylenol PM

My wife seems to have this but only when she's asleep. There are times I think she's actually sleepwalking on her side.

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