It’s OK. Fight some ignorance. It seems to have gotten deep recently.
Not only are you an asshole, but if you weren’t a guest, and therefore unable to do a search, you’d be able to see that you aren’t evan an original or interesting asshole. Better assholes than yourself have cast aspersions on other people’s medical condition on this board.
No, I don’t have RLS.
Thank you, OneCentStamp.
To answer lobstermobster’s question, no, it’s not psychosomatic.
Ok, then I’m done talking to you.
Absolutely it does. This is just the first cite that popped up when I googled “restless legs families”. Reportedly, my father may have had it as well.
As far as “catching” it from seeing the commercials as a certain “guest” has suggested… I developed symptoms nearly 25 years ago and never had a name for them until I stumbled across it on the internet many years later. One of those 'AHA!!!" moments for me, as I realized I was reading a verbatim description of something that had plagued me for over a decade.
This is just some food for thought.
Hmm, looks like I have Please Eat My Balls, You Holier Than Thou Slaptard Syndrome. Do they make a pill for that?
No, but we have a banning creme you can apply topically. Take it immediately, and then go troll somewhere else.
The thing is, if you’ve never experienced it, it does sound a little silly. If you have experienced it, then once you hear the name for it, you know immediately what it refers to.
Years ago I got a pamphlet about it from a doctor. It mentioned a few extreme cases that made me feel like my experience of it was not so bad. Things like pacing all night long, or in one case, a woman who was ready to cut her legs off to make it go away.
The bad thing about it is that the more tired you are, the worse it gets.
When I was a little kid my mother used to ask me to rub the backs of her knees to try and ease it. I’ve had it my whole life, and I knew the name of it 15 years ago.
It sounds bizarre to anyone who has never experienced it. It feels hellish to those of us who have. Fortunately for me iit doesn’t happen too often, but when it does… and the WORST is when it spreads to my arms, which it does sometimes. Never as severely, but enough to suck. Then I’m thrashing all over the bed. Good thing I sleep alone, I might hurt someone.
Actually, I agree with you, that a lot of people take things and make them into the most popular disease of the day, and suddenly everyone has them.
Some of us are just grateful to have a name for it. I haven’t mentioned it to my doctor, and don’t intend to, because by no means is it serious enough in my case. And the “home” remedies work.
I can also tell you how freakin grateful I was to read about early sleep paralysis right here on Cecil’s page…it became much less scary to know lots of other people suffer it too.
Haven’t asked my doctor about that, either.
I just…have a really hard time criticizing what other people feel. God knows I’ve been guilty of it as much as the next person.
Oh well. I’m not trying to convince anyone it really happens. If you ever meet my SO, he can tell you, it’s bothered me for as long as he’s known me. : shrug :
Stoid, the arm thing sounds positively dreadful, and I am glad I don’t have that problem.
I agree, it does sound silly. But we are such a judgemental and holier-than-fuck-thou species - “If it didn’t happen to me, it sure as hell didn’t happen to you”.
And yes, I’ve been guilty of it too. But several things happened in my life that made me inclined to believe it more. I don’t argue with people who aren’t even willing to listen, though.
Interesting, but for people that have it, they know it’s genuine. It’s like someone once said, if you don’t know whether you’ve ever had an orgasm, then you haven’t.
Thank you. That was just really sad.
But a really good banning line!
Interesting reading.
Re the whole flap with the RLS commercials - I see those in two lights.
One is the “we’ve got a medication and have found a potentially profitable market for it so we’ll advertise and get lots of patients to ask for it and our sales will skyrocket” which is a pervasive issue with a lot of different drugs. Scummy, really.
The other aspect is: RLS happens to be one of those conditions that is not well known, even among the medical profession; those docs who have heard of it often don’t know appropriate treatments. A lot of sufferers either think nobody will believe them, they tell their doctors who tell them it’s all in their minds, they’re misdiagnosed (I was tentatively diagnosed with Morton’s Neuroma in both feet for years) or what have you. From that aspect, the commercials are really beneficial in that they give a name to something the sufferers have never been able to explain.
FWIW - if one does need to go for pharmaceutical help, the dopamine agonists (Requip, Mirapex, others) are pretty much the gold standard for treatment and were for several years - off-label - even before they received FDA approval as RLS treatments. There are, however, still doctors who try to push quinine (leg cramps, useless for RLS), clonazepam (habit forming, does nothing for the twitches but maybe helps you sleep despite them, can leave you zoned out the next day), and other options of varying usefulness.
When was that?
I went to see a neurologist about it (actually, I went for something else, but got a twofer special) and he prescribed something for it. It didn’t work. He told me to up the dosage. Didn’t work. Up it again. After a while it occurred to me that I was taking a fist full of neurological pills every night for no reason. That struck me as a Bad Idea.
That was just about ten years ago.
The hell? You banned him for hurting people’s feelings? In the Pit?
I just looked through some of his other posts, he’s pretty insulting in a lot of places. I don’t want someone here who’s predominantly here to bitch and moan at us, and I’m pretty sure that’s been Board policy since Day 1.
Yeah, to me it seemed as if he was violating Rule 1. Not allowed even in the Pit.