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  • I'm having this problem today, I used to have restless leg syndrom every night, but ever since I got on medication it only happens on rare occasions..

  • I have found the cause, and the cure. I have suffered for 30 years. All the way into my arms, and during the day. Eat chicken liver, or venison. Right before bedtime. The brain thinks you are anemic, because of childhood anemia. Eating meat just before bed sends a shot of iron with all the enzymes needed to use it, right when you need it. iron pills are very dangerous. Meat isn't. After all, how long has mankind eaten meat?

  • I'm so sick of doctors who don't have rls giving lame advice. "Better sleep"...duh! if only I could. "no caffennie".. well thats the only thing that gives instant relief. "exercise".. I wish, but when you feel like jello after being in a fight all night exercise leads to injury. I've had this all my life and now its in my whole body. I've tried all the drugs and advice and nothing helps. Hot baths help for awhile but rls returns shortly after.

  • I thought I had this, but now I think I just have too much energy and need to get off my ass and exercise lol

  • Eczema + this = hell

  • Can this be gotten just randomly? Or do you get it when your born? Because just yesterday, my leg started to get this uncontrollable urge to move once in awhile. I'm afraid I might have this syndrome.

  • @supermariolego878 Some people have symptoms on rare occassions. I have severe symptoms all day long. If you feel an unpleasant senation in your leg and it gets better--even if only a few seconds--after moving your leg it is a good possibility you have it.

    Ask your doctor for referral to a sleep center.

    Yes, it some cases it is genetic

  • I have it. It keeps me from sleeping and it makes me feel jittery and antsy all day.

  • MAGNESIUM... transdermal magnesium is great for RLS, just google it!

  • Sometimes when I sit on a chair for longer than 5 minutes, my right leg (usually) starts moving fast (up-down). After seeing that I usually keep doing it until I don`t feel the need anymore. I do it because it relaxes me in a way. Am I sick?

  • "Swindle." See "Confidence trick." See "Con."

    "Racket:"

    "...racket is used to describe a business (or syndicate) that is based on the example of the protection racket and indicates a belief that it is engaged in the sale of a solution to a problem that the institution itself creates or perpetuates, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage...." [wikipedia]

  • I was on a medication that gave me extreme restlessness and he wouldn't take me off of the medicine so I ended up in a mental hospital over it. When I came off the drug the restlessness went away after putting up with it for almost a whole year. I was then given a medication that made me throw up in mental hospital for 3 months and they said I had to keep taking it. I am now off the medication but it gave me M.E and wrecked my immune system I can only do a 5 min walk every 2 days.

  • Try magnesium, this is needed to help the muscles relax. Make sure you have a good supply of vitamins/minerals in your diet by eating lots of fruit and veggies and get some exercise each day - a brisk walk is enough. this works.

  • I have RSL and after 2 years of horror with it my doctor gave me MIRAPEX. It works about 98% of the time. I need to take it about 45 mintures before sleep.

  • i have that problem

  • someone help, do you think i might have RLS? im 15 and i am constantly bouncing my legs up and down in class or at home, especially when im sitting. During late afternoon/night i get really bad deep pain im my quads and calves and they wont go away unless i start shaking my legs. I also get twitches in my legs when im still.

  • @MissBrodieMac It sounds familiar. I haven't had it for years now, but when I did I always felt I wanted to either kick something, or punch my legs hard - anything to get rid of that feeling, the constant need to move my legs, then move them again after a couple of seconds. Something that helped a little for me was lying on my front, so that might be worth a try. I suffered for years, then when I was pregnant it was even worse and was horrible in the evenings as well as the night-time.

  • Is Rls like tourettes? Im wondering since both have to do with dopamine levels

  • @MegaPascal31 no lol. it's different for those who have it, but is comparable to having tiny pins in every cell of your leg trying to desperately burst out... impossible to sleep

  • can someone plz reply me? im 14 year old i eat well my parents doesnt have rls but i get a lot of these things they dont get better with movement i get tingling but it disapers quickly i dont feel pain and sleep well sometimes i wake up earlier than usual but i dont move my legs while sleeping but im really scared when i feel this shit plz someone reply me i can be also in cars trunks and airplanes perfectly fine

  • @starnjuy

    well as he said, it gets much worst as you get older. Remember they are researching medications. So, just try to ignore it, and eventually there should be a cure.

  • Nice interview. Ive learned something from it. And by the way I like the mood of this DR.

  • i have rls and i think it gets worse than ever. i have it since i was a kid, but now at 21 it has affected my arms. before i just have the urge to move my legs and squeeze my muscles for temporary relief but now i have extreme jerky legs every night, esp. whenever im just about to doze off. in three days ill be traveling on an airplane and i know it's gonna be like hell ='(

  • I only have the urge to move my legs, no sensations or anything

  • im suffering from it right now and it's so frustrating.

    i know the main reason why i have it is im anemic,

    taking iron supplements during the day has reduced attacks.

  • my friends complain about it

  • I have this. I didn't know it had a name. I thought my leg was just tired or something. I usually just lay back in a chair and put my leg on a chair. I really want to move it, but I try not to move it for as long as I can and then it goes away and I feel good. ^_^

  • @MsChickyLoca

    Same... I hope I dont have this shit!

  • i have it i got it like 2 weeks after i had my son it sucks so bad i hate it 

  • i used to have restless leg syndrom until i was like 13r 14 idk why i grew out of it but its way better now :p, this one time i actualy had to go to the hospital because my legs wouldnt stop moving!

  • i have this

    its annoying >X( o wish it could go away :(

  • I am so grateful to hear a doctor show compassion and understanding. The name Restless Legs Syndrome itself has given ammunition to comedians and cynics who take the silly name to mean it must be some made-up disease. I suffer from 3-5 attacks per day, and my whole life is affected. This is true for so many of us who dread airline flights or being trapped in the middle row of a theater. The mocking or dismissal of RLS by insensitive or uneducated people just serves to garner them a laugh, while

  • I m age 20,I sleep 10 hrs a day and I suffer from it..wat shall I do..I cant keep my legs calm even when I m awake..I tend to move my toes n ankle...and u know how it feels..

  • I got to this video trying to find a cure for RLS. It is the most painful and tiring thing it could ever happened to someone. It all depends on how bad a person gets it. Literally, both legs can go wild, like if it was that someone picks them up and throw them on any direction from your body. It is HORRIBLE AND IT DOESN'T GETS ANY BETTER. Got prescription drugs but is not helping. For does people that had it and know is gone, can anyone tell me how they made it go away?Was it alternative meds?

  • I have it and i've had it for years. i used to be very active and i ended up with a problem with my atendons so i had to stop runing for a while and for me the less i was runing the more i was pacing. Eventually i would start feeling these weird sensations in my legs then it started to become painfull. I didn't know i had it till recently but i seem to feel better when i work out it feels really nice to my legs.

  • I read on wikipedia that some describe their RLS as uncomfortable, "antsy", electrical, creeping, painful, itching, pins and needles, pulling, creepy-crawly, ants inside the legs, numbness. I can't go as far as my RLS being itchy or painful but I could tell you that it is very uncomfortable. When I lay in bed I have to move my feet from side to side to calm it. Lately, while i'm moving my feet, I notice my legs feel some type of pause. I can't it explain it but it feels weird.

  • i have it and i cant stand it

  • Only those people who REALLY have this kind of problem can only understand this

  • i aso have it. whenever it attacks, i just let my sister massage the affected area or let it stretched a bit to relieve the sensation. but my doctor gave me gabapentin.

  • i have that too, just found out, actually i had it since i was lil kid...7 oor so. was watchin family guy or smthn and i foun out about it there, and google is the way to go after. funny feeling it only comes when i cant fall asleep....like if im not tired or if i had a nap during the day and only if im thinking about it....like now... :P

    but yeah cant rly describe the feeling, its nit painful just like this bold sensation and the need to move :D

    funny shit i tell ya.

  • i have rls and i have this weird sensation too excatly like wanting to streatch but only wrks for a while...and at night i have to constantly pound my leg on the bed to sleep.. =[ sux so bad...also my arm gets that sensation to and now is during the day...

  • I've had it constantly for the last couple of days. It's like the sensation that you need to stretch your legs, yet no amount of stretching relieves it. Very frustrating :(

  • @Jinmane

    same with me

  • What would be described as severe? I'm 13 and I just HAVE to pace... I pace around 2-7 hours a day. But I noticed that when my feet and/or my legs vibrate it goes away. I get maybe 2-6 hours of sleep each night and feel like I'm going to pass out in school... So is that mild or severe?

  • I have it in my left leg

    I constantly have to move it, or cross it over my right one, I makes me feel like I'm going mad if I don't move it at all

  • i have RLS too.. but not that severe. when i stop moving my legs, i feel uneasy, like it tells me not to stop.. i can't hold my legs still even for 5mins..

  • hahhaah i didnt even know that this shit existed until 5 minutes ago...my dad always asks me if i have to go to the bathroom and legit gets mad at me when i shake my legs i cant control it i dont get any weird feeling i just cant control my legs shaking and i hav terrible sleeping habits it usually takes me about 3 to 4 hours to fall asleep can any one recommend what i do cuz i dont want to go to the doctors for this

  • I've heard Mirapex works well.

  • I'm 13 and i'm pretty sure I have RLS. It started when I was 7 but back then it was very mild. About 2-3 days a week, I will experiance it in school. It torture. Really, it is. I have to pretend to drop my pencil and and pick it up, or ask to go to my locker, or the washroom. Or I will get up to use the pencil sharpener. I will do anything to get up and move around. It only happenes in my feet. Moving my feet helps but only for 1 second then it comes back. Plese,can anyone help me

  • @RuneFinity44 i dont now if i have RLS but when my legs cant stand sitting in one place i just hit it and hit it till it stops, ino if it works for u

  • I'm 13 and i'm pretty sure I have Restless leg syndrome. I've had it sence I was 7. It wasn't as bad back then but I find it's getting worse as I get older. I'm always tierd at school. One night I was up to around 5:45am because I couldn't stop moving my leg. About 2-3 days of the week I experiance it in school and I have to ask to use the washroom or go to the pencil sharpener just to get up and move. It's terrible :( If anyone can help me, or has advice, plese message me It would help alot.

  • @RuneFinity44 when my leg cant stand sitting in one place i think of one thing..terrible...pain. by hitting m leg it actually stops it for a while

  • I seem to have it very mild. Usually if i stretch it it will help.

  • yea that kinda works i just tried it

  • @lezsmokehaze420 - Some of my family members have had success with Mirapex. I need to go talk to my GP about my RLS.

  • i have severe RLS, i was prescribed to Neurontin, and it works wonders

  • once in a while i feel a shock that make mii lags move and sometimes when i go to bed i willl shake

  • I have it, I've had it since I was 4 years old.

  • i have it... and i am constatly moving in my sleep.... and it the pain gets so bad i will lay there and cry. i have tried a few hometreatments and nothing is working

  • @tristansmother2 I haven't been diagnosed with it.. but i know i have it... if i dont move my legs it makes me scream... it's terrible. could be worse though... could have restless bowel syndrome HAHAH!!

  • @tristansmother2 do you still have it?

  • @tristansmother2 "This month in the journal Sleep Science, Brazilian researchers speculate that masturbation may calm restless leg syndrome. [...] Drugs that increase dopamine have been shown to reduce RLS symptoms, but an orgasm, which provides a natural dose of dopamine, may help too. The researchers only mention possible benefits for men, but if any of you ladies suffer from RLS, there's no harm in performing a one-woman scientific study." Not a joke from my side

  • @tristansmother2 Try getting really tight compression stockings, knee high and cut the toes open so your toes are free. Hope this helps you sleep.

  • I have this sometimes. The way I deal with it is to get the affected limb as cold as possible. Usually by running the cold tap in the bath over it for a while. It's a drag to have to do it in the middle of the night, but it works for me! Who knows if it IS the cold water. It might just be getting up and doing something! However, it still works. Hope this might be helpful for some people

  • @MrMaggil

    I'll have tio try that thanks alot man

  • I have this but I don't mind. One night I had really badly it was unbelievable so I got up and started doing squats with just that leg, then it was fine :)

  • so you can have it in just one of your legs ?... you're diagnosed with this? .... because I have all these symptoms, but just in my left leg.

  • I only have it in my left leg. Today it bothered me so bad during a test so thats why I "youtubed" it lol. "Tickles" my left leg so bad (indescribable feeling). If I don't move it gets VERY intense lol. The more I think about it the worse it gets. Luckily it doesn't bother me THAT much. I have sporatic episodes maybe a couple times a month.

  • I have RLS, I can't even sleep in the same bed with my girlfriend anymore because i keep her up all night. it seems to be worse on the nights if I have a few beers. anyone know why that may be?

  • i have it :/.... it feels gud on my leg tho :o

    when i sit down i move my heel up and down while it moves my leg really fast

    and im not controlling it :3

  • I have had this since childhood. I remember crying myself to sleep over it as a kid but I only get it intermittedly and with less severity.

    I always keep foot moisuriser next to my bed to massage my feet if I get.

  • I suffer from this when I don't work out my legs. Ever since I began going to the gym it's been happening since...or whenever I do not work out my legs. And it is worse at night. I wake up to tingling feelings and I hate it so much

  • i've been suffereing rls since the age of 20i am now 30.

    Initially it was only in my legs and over time as is typical of familial rls, it has progressed to my arms and torso.

    i must say it is debilitating and horrible to endure.

  • i get this throughout my teen. Hard to sleep, your body's tired but your legs just wanna move lol. Its gone now.

  • I have crohn's disease, fibrosis, and Primary Sclerosing cholangitis and i think this is worse then all of them combined...

  • Restless people need to mediatate to calm their mind/brains. I was restless ALL OVER not just legs but overcome it!

  • I have found that opioid medicine works the best for my RLS.

  • I'm doing much better. I think it has to do with nutrition. I'm taking a supplement that is complete, balanced, and in food form so that it is easily digestible. The change has been huge. I can sleep!

  • I wonder if I have. When I'm sitting down I star to move my legs, or else they're uncomfortable. When I try to sleep I feel a pain along my lower leg. I'm tired all day along because I can't sleep. Hmm. Maybe.

  • i always jig my leg up and down,

    my maths teacher gets pissedoff about it and tells me to get a dr. note, then she will let me do it!!

    grr

  • Sounds stupid, but Ive recently started putting a tight knee support round my knee. Seems to work a treat.

  • I got RLS from taking an SSRI antidepressant--celexa. I have been off the Celexa for 2 yrs. & I seem to be left with permanent RLS. I have to take klonipin every ight to sleep---NEVER take SSRI antidepressants.!!!!!!!!!!!

  • accually the cure is magnessium but these big Pharma companies are emptying your pockets, because magnesium relaxes your muscles natraully Magnesium Glycinate is the best form because it is highly absorbed and doesnt make you use the rest room as much, pregnant women get it because the baby is using magnesium too and the woman is left defeciant.

  • please ask your dr about a medicine called Carb/Levo I don't know what it stands for, that is on my med bottle.. It gets rid of that feeling within 15 minutes.. I can only take it at night, it makes me sleepy but no other side affects.. Moroc99 below said they took Quinnine, The FDA discontinued this in the U.S. because of links to heart attacks and strokes. Hope this helps.

  • urgh, I freaking hate it.

    If I'm not CONTENTLY moving my legs they tingle like mad and at night if I'm not moving them it hurts so bad one time I woke up screaming .__. It totally sucks. Especially at school when people get mad that you're moving your legs so much. Apparently it's "distracting." Stupid right??

    I hope they find a cure soon.

  • They get mad because your moving your leg? That IS stupid.

    Id move them more!!!

  • i fight quite alot, like in karate ect...

    and just before a fight or if someone annoys me i will twitch my right leg up and down, or if there is something my hands are rested on they tap the table. it pisses me off cause i can't stop it without like sitting on my hands.

  • if it gets that bad then cut the leg off.

  • If you have never had RLS, you better keep your trap shut. It is horrid!!

  • I got RLS but i got to admit that was SO LOL

  • I do it subconciously

  • this is a great video,i have suffered this problem for years,i take quinnine tablets and they work,and am told that there none addictive,

  • I get this when I stand in one place for a long time, I feel the need to itch my lower legs.

  • Everything he said is what I am doing right now. I clicked this video out of curiosity. I'm lying down (on Wii) Watching this and moving my legs everwhere coz I feel I have to. (After watching this video) I honestly think I have it. Everything in the video is how I'd describe it, but I don't want to go doctors to be told I might have Parkinsons or something... :/ I'm gonna have to go see a GP :/

  • Glycine and a good high mineral diet

  • yeh im 14 and ive had it since i was about 4, mine is severe since i have the feeling in my hands aswell sometimes, and mine is pretty much continious all the time

  • OVER 9000 VIEWS!

  • I get it every once in a while when I'm laying down it pisses me off so much.

  • so what your really saying is that people with restless leg syndome are good at using a DOUBLE BASS PEDAL!! in drumming lol

  • lmao XD AMG 700BPM AMG AMG AMG AMG

  • @Carpy360 roflmao

  • After my back injury, I found this happened?

    And like the Dr Says it is hard to explain the sensation

    colin.

  • Hi Colin - I just saw my MD today and she said it was RLS - but, similar to you, I have 2 bulging disks in my low back and had epidural injections in Nov/Dec 08 - and this weird thing didn't happen till after that. Have you seen your MD? Could it be from your injury? Mine feels like worms squirming under my muscles - that's the only way I can describe it. Good luck to you.

  • Not to take the piss, but atleast you'll get strong legs.

  • I occassionally have like a seriosly huge twitch when im nearly asleep which actually scares me... but this only happens like once a month..

  • I get that too. It has a strange name. It's to do with when we (as humans) used to live in trees. It's a defence mechanism so that if you feel like you're falling you will wake with a start and be able to brace yourself or catch something. Kinda useless these days I guess. I get it really bad, some times every night for about a month. It's quite un-nerving. Hope this helps.

  • omg i saw this video title and started laughing. but when i watched it i realised that ive got it!! lol damn

  • I have this. It isn't every single night though.

  • To all the people that think this is a fake/joke condition, let me assure you it is not! SWIM suffered from this badly during heroin withdrawal and sleep is physically impossible. The propensity to bounce your legs is utterly unavoidable.

  • Quite an unimaginative name lol.

  • check out all the hypercondriacts below. restless leg syndrome? what a load of crap, its called being fat and lazy, go exercise

  • Nah i use to get this when i was a kid and i was a very healthy and active kid.

    I don't think i've had it in my adult years.

    And it did only happen at night once im lying down in bed, your legs blatantly ache all over for no reason and it pains you to keep them still, you have to move them and eventually you have to get up.

    Its just one of those weird ailments that you ignore. I believe i've had it come back mildly after lying in bed for an hour before actually sleeping.

  • Hardly. I'm an international athlete who trains twice a day and I get it. So the advice of "go exercise" is no help at all.

  • Doctors mood is = GOOD :) lol

  • im not sure if i have this?

    but when i was like 7, i told my mum that my legs feel uncomfortable when im trying to sleep, and ive had it on and off since?

    and i went through a year of having it really bad, physically i cant describe it, but mentally i just feel like i have to move my legs? like they feel really heavy and just generaly uncomfortable, also i suffer from m.e, neuropathic pains and depression? dyou recon theres a link??

    nice informative video :)

    x.x.x

  • I realised it wasn't so much a condition but a more like my body's response to the stresses of my appaling modern lifestyle.

    Exercise, a proper diet full of fresh organic veg/ fruit and no processed foods, lots of (bottled) water, no caffeine or added sugar or pop, switching off TV/ computer (especially in evening) instead doing light exercise, yoga, stretching, meditation, listening to music, a bath, an evening stroll or simply quiet quality time with family....

    All these things cured me! :)

  • Bottled water is less clean than tapped water.

  • I put my mp3 player on,then i forget my restless legs, and go to sleep

  • i get a mild form of this...just the itching which is abated by moving...thats bad enough...anyone heard of this on the ricky gervais podcast?

  • It's exactly what i was thinking whilst watching. Karl has it and it makes him kick Suzanne in the night. :|

  • the dumbest illness ive seen. Besides depression... I don't get how sadness or misery can be classed as an illness..

  • Sorry I don't agree - but depression really shouldn't be called "dumb"... It's a lot more than just sadness - it doesn't just go away... I just felt a need to say that :) Restless leg syndrome? Now that does sound a bit silly - though, I'm glad I don't have it

  • People who don't understand psychological imbalances tend to class depression as just 'sadness' when it's much, much more. It's severely debilitating, as can be Restless Leg Syndrome. Perhaps do your research before putting forward an opinion disguised as a fact.

  • dirtylivin07- Until you've been mentality crippled and incapacitated by depression you can never understand how it feels. Keep your mouth shut about things you do not understand child.

  • My mum has this and it entertains me to no end... I feel awful laughing but it IS funny sometimes.

    hahahaah

  • he's describing pins and needles...LOL

    Just get up an walk around a bit

  • No, it's not the same thing. He's correct in that it is actually very hard to describe, but i've experienced both and the worst thing about RLS is that it comes on when you really don't want to get up and walk about, you're just trying to sleep. But you're probably right, best thing to do is walk :-)

  • I dont do it while Im going to bed, but during the day, my mum has to tell me to keep still, but I cant help it lol

  • ive got this, its bad when my foot is on the clutch foot down and my car is in gear, then it bounces bang stalled.

  • i have this, it's annoying/horrible. i can't keep my leg still at all, especially my right one. and when i'm trying to get to sleep i just feel the need to move them all the time. gah. it's weird D:

  • that's just probably your leg falling asleep. i have rls and it's more like a general need to move your leg every so often, whether you've stayed in one place for 12 hours or 12 minutes.

  • Poor Mr. K Dilkington.

  • I was talking to a friend while standing, and my left leg started to go numb like i was trying to fight it by pumping the muscle tense relax tense etc.

  • i have it xD i hate it!

  • haha thats called pins and needles

  • nope, that's something completely different. That's when the blood vessels get blocked, like if you're sitting on your leg. The pain comes from when you stand up and the blood can flow freely again, causing a prickly sensation. RLS happens all the time with no obvious cause.

  • Karl Diiiilllkington!!

  • karl pilkington

  • o i thought i was where the leg just moved on it's own accord

  • I thought that too lmao

  • oh mah gawd! your leg is effing asleep, big whoop! it's called move it out of the odd position its in and get it some blood flow! GEEEZ!

  • Ahh man. . . just had to look down at my keyboard to type. Bloody restless neck syndrome, I tell ya.

  • idiot

  • this is bizarre. i have felt that feeling before... BUT I NEVER THOUGHT I'D NEED DRUGS FOR IT!!

  • i can describe it!!!....its like....AAARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

  • my friend has restless leg syndrome

    he's 12 though

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