restless legs

[michele2042]

I just recently started having trouble with restless legs.   Wakes me up in the middle of the night.  At first walking and stretching my legs seem to offer temporary relief but I would soon wake up with it again.   Found a cream, Synovium, that seems to be helping.  It is an awful feeling.  The only positive for me is I'm retired and if I don't get sleep at night I can deal with it.   

[vickysue]

Sometimes I have it happen to me at night.  Getting up and moving around seems to help the cycle for me. Then I am  able to go back to bed and sleep. But if I fight it it  seems to get worse until I give up and get up. I know it is from standing and working  long  hours at  work.  But Thank God it is not every night.

[surveypro2016]

I was diagnosed with RLS but I am not convinced that is what it is. I have the feeling like popcorn popping in my legs from thigh to feet 24/7. I also have excruciating painful muscle cramps in my legs throughout the day and night. It is so bad that I have trouble driving now. I am allergic to Gabopentin so my Dr. is reluctant to try Lyrica or anything in the same drug family. I had anaphyalaxis with Gabopentin. I've been up the past three nights. I am praying I can get some sleep tonight as I am exhausted.

[UGetPaid]

From the sounds of what everyone else is saying, my RLS is probably pretty minor. I've actually never been diagnosed, but did talk to my doctor about it about six months ago while there for a visit on something else.  It isn't anything that wakes me up and it is not every single night (sometimes I have no symptoms for a week or two or even longer).


Mine is just discomfort where I feel the need to lift and drop my legs repeatedly while laying down.  I've never looked at actual remedies other than moving the legs around a bit. My doctor said that he would never prescribe anything for it unless it was pretty severe because the meds he would use to treat it are the same used to treat Parkinson's disease.


One other thing I've found in my case (it could all be in my head) is that I seem to experience it more often and more severely when I actively think about it. Maybe it is just more awareness, but it's kind of like yawning.  If you think about yawning, you're going to do it.  [apologies for any chain reactions I am setting off for you all right now by making that observation]    If I think about RLS, it sometimes seems to bring it on or bring it on more severely.

[brian8713]

Does restless legs happen when you're awake, or only when you're sleeping? Just because sometimes my legs get very jittery and I can't stop moving them around, quite frankly.