It’s unfortunate that a Troll/sock brought it up, but it is pretty ridiculous for a virgin to be giving anecdotes on dirty sex talk and the differences between races whereof. Especially without copping to it when giving said opinion.
Borderline personality is real, I’ve seen it.
I don’t know about OCD. Maybe I’m just being generous, but whenever I hear people say “I have slight OCD,” I just take it to mean they check and recheck something a few times just to be sure. It’s not real OCD, but what they’re doing really is OCD on a smaller scale.
And isn’t “chronic fatigue syndrome” just a euphemism for someone who has insomnia?
I think that they are all real. You just said diseases that people convince themselves they have on a scale because a lot of people have a lot of the symptoms of many diseases. I was just glad someone else said it. I work at a veterans hospital and so many come in claiming they have whatever disease the internet told them they have. With that population though they are motivated by drug addiction, neglect, lack of funds. I just wish this medical advertising would lay off and I think we’d see a natural decline in problems people are bothered enough by to seek help.
I appologize for the confusion. I didn’t mean sex talk, necessarily.
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Did you mean Guin and Lobsang, not Lobstermobster? Cause that would make more sense to me.
Do you? Sometimes I just can’t tell with you. You’ve basically come into this thread with seeming accusations of “faker.”
Are we being whooshed?
Her first post related to the pharmaceutical ads for RLS and then she linked to an article discussing how those same companies hype up symptoms and get people all worried. That’s not really the same as “faker”. And your analogy in [post=9183785]post 33[/post] is flawed. If we had commercials and medical people telling us that sneezes were orgasms, you’d get a whole bunch of people who mistakenly think they’ve had an orgasm.
Wilfred Trotter — a neurosurgeon, social psychologist, philosopher of medicine, and chief bottle washer — pretty well documented that there exists a herd mentality that works much like a nuclear reaction. In a recent episode, Dr. House yelled out something in the hospital cafeteria about the mayonnaise being contaminated and within minutes, the staff was inundated by sweaty, nervous patients and visitors complaining of food poisoning symptons. Some people thought the scene was a bit far fetched, but it really wasn’t.
Yeah, sure. I have no doubt that a large segment of the population imagines the disease of the week. That doesn’t mean that the disease isn’t genuine, of course.
And I stand by my analogy. You may wonder if you’d had an orgasm, but if you actually have had one, you’ll know it. If you only suspect you have, then you haven’t.
That’s really a fascinating topic. One has to wonder what evolutionary principle is behind that. And it does make me wonder what percentage of RLS sufferers are “fakers.” The thing is, we may never really know. Since the commercials have come out, there has been an increase in people claiming to have it. Naturally. But who comprises that increase? Surely there are some who only imagine it, and there are probably a few who fake it for attention. But there are doubtless many who said “Wow! It has a name! And there’s a treatment!”
As for Dopers who claim to have it, I don’t see a faker in the bunch. They all relate their experiences in a way that only true sufferers can know.
Ok, now I have to ask. What on Earth is Borderline Personality? Is that when someone almost has a personality but not really?
Link.
Although I am by no means questioning the trollhood of our newly banned, I am curious as to why is familiarity with the board a bannable offense.
After having read a ton of posts telling newbs to lurk for a year or two before daring to post so they get a feel for the tone of the board, and with most of our habitual troll targets being so high profile, one would think it is impossible not to be familiar with the running board issues.
I don’t think it is ok for newbs to jump in firing on all cannons, but I see no issue in them knowing half the in-jokes.
that’s fucked up. Thanks for the link.
I think there is truth to the statement that drug advertisements cause some people to imagine they have symptoms. A year or so ago at a visit to my dentist, he was upset about drug advertising. His 7 year old son was having problems getting to sleep the night before, and told his dad he wanted some of the “blue butterfly medicine”.
I have suffered from what I now know is RLS for almost 40 years. I didn’t know there was a name for it, because when I asked doctors about it I was told various things - it’s shin splints, try vigorious exercise just before bed (really, really bad idea), or my favorite - “it’s all in your head”. I didn’t find out there was a name for it until I was accepted into a drug study for Mirapex.
I have started seeing the ads for Mirapex on TV recently - I don’t watch TV at home but we are required to have the Weather Channel on at work - and I am torn about them. On one hand, I am sure there are people like me who have RLS and never knew there was a name or a treatment for it. On the other hand, I am sure there are people who will talk themselves into a new set of symptoms. Either way, I hope they have insurance because Mirapex is not cheap.
And as for “convincing myself I had it”, I’m afraid it was the other way around. It did the convincing. It just didn’t give me a calling card with a name on it. I frankly don’t give much of a shit if a few Dopers with nothing better to do decide they know how my legs do or don’t feel when I try to go to sleep at night. My doctor (who suffers from RLS himself; it’s one reason he went into neurology) has examined me and listened to my history and believed I had a problem with it enough to accept me into the drug study. After the study, he gave me a script. It helps. That is the sum total of my concern.
lobstermobster, I don’t know if you have RLS or not; I’m not your doctor. I also don’t know your age. My personal experience is that it got much worse when I got into my mid 40’s and began severely impacting my ability to sleep. It has always been a nuisance, but it upgraded itself into a problem when I got older. And as a side benefit, my husband reported that when I did get to sleep I would often kick in my sleep. So the drug has helped us both get a better nights sleep!
I think the title should be modified, warning Newbies not to enter here.
I’m happy to discuss it, but please start a new thread. This one really doesn’t need any more tangents – it’s a bit of a miracle it’s still sort of about RLS.
Apparently not. See below for further explanation.
That’s because the behaviors you describe are not what Restless Leg Syndrome even is, so calling it that would be ridiculous. You haven’t even remotely described the symptoms everyone who actually does suffer from it has posted here. If you had read for comprehension instead of just being a jerk, you might’ve recognized that.
I used to bounce my foot constantly, as well. I, too, was very high energy and fidgety. It was subconscious, but not outside of my control if attention was brought to it. If asked to stop, we can simply stop once we notice we’re doing it.
When I lie on the couch watching television, or in bed all nice and quiet, and suddenly this bizarre sensation starts deep inside my legs and then suddenly they jerk, and I am physically incapable of preventing it, that’s Restless Leg Syndrome. Sometimes it’s just a few random jerks and kicks and it settles down. Other times it’s so disruptive that there’s simply no choice but to get up and walk around. It can actually hurt.
You do not have this. If you did, you wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss those of us who really do.
I’ve had it 35-odd years or so. When I was a kid I would put myself between the mattress and the box springs to force myself to be still and keep from going crazy.
I’ve imagined a simple machine, into which I could place my legs which would shake them free of my need to shake them.
I too believe it is related somehow to circulation.
I’m a believer in the pharmacopeia and its solutions, but I’ve found that 40 deep knee bends before bed will let me fall asleep soundly. (I can feel the blood racing through my legs as I doze off–and it’s sweet)
Flipshod we have different symptoms. For me, just keeping still would be torture. Others here describe it like an itch in the muscle. For me it kinda feels like when you run a finger down the sole of your foot - only the full length of my calf. I move to relieve that feeling. A machine to prevent movement would be tortuous.