Restless legs and arms syndrome
Posted on June 18th, 2007 in Personal | 59 Comments »
Some nights I cannot sleep because my arms and legs feel like its pulsating and it drives me nuts. I cannot describe the feeling to be honest, but pulsating is probably the closest to it. I guess another way to describe it is the feeling of being tied in a knot, or as if there were ants crawling up and down my arms. Regardless of what it feels like, the point is, it drives me nuts. I can not sleep and I have to get up and do jumping jacks or sits up in the middle of the night. Or sometimes I just twitch back and forth to make it go away.
It normally keeps me up for like 30 minutes then I can go back to sleep. In those thirty minutes it feels like hell. It almost feels like I want to just rip my arm or my leg off and toss it against the wall. I am having it right now, thats why I stopped sleeping and went to write in my blog.
I know there is a condition known as RLS and there is a drug for it, but I am not a doctor so I am not going to diagnose myself. If I was rich, or had good health insurance, I could go get it checked out. But even then its hard to figure out because it happens erratically. And drives me nuts!! 
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RLS DOES drive you nuts. Totally. You don’t have to be rich to diagnose it, though. Simple criteria:
1. Do you have weird, uncomfortable, and or painful sensations in legs, arms, or even another body part?
2. Does it occur when at rest?
3. Does it go away with movement?
4. Is it worse in the evening?
If yes to all, bingo. Check out sites like rls.org or rlshelp.org or wemove.org. rls.org has a pretty good forum where you can read about what other people do – incuding a section on dealing with it without using pharmaceuticals.
Oh, I’ve got it. Had it since I was a teenager. I can commiserate with you. . .
I never knew I had RLS until I saw the commercial. I went to see a neurologist, but he was very hesitant to diagnose me with RLS. I know that’s what I have. I have all the symptons. Does anyone know of alternative medicine, besides Requip? I find Requip is too strong for me and makes me feel weird
hey I thought i was the only one in this world with this problem. So im lucky to see alot of people that have the same problem. I was wondering if anyone could help me with curing this thing and what should i call this if i were to ask a doctor. I never had this until a year ago, i might have some reasons why i have this but i dont think it caused it. i just want to figure a way to get rid of it because im sick of not sleeping for days. Please if someone could help me that would make things a little better. thanks
Some people say its just in my head and a doctor said it was tets, which isnt even close to right. I have these weird feelings in my arms and legs,it feels like it right where my arms bend and my legs bend, so behind my elbows and knee caps. But the only way i knew how to explain the feeling was my nerves were hurting, which i think was the wrong way to try and explain to other people. But its not really pain. Its a constant thing but it increases when im upset or angry and its driving me crazy. I tap or shake my foot all the time cause i have to keep my legs going, its worse now in my legs than in my arms but when these feelings first started it was worse in my arms…Any ideas on what to do or what this may be???
Thanks….
I do not have RLS, to the best of my own knowledge, but every once and a while I get this feeling in my shoulder shockets and it is very hard to describe. It starts as a small "entity" in my shoulder and tingly as a son of a B***H, as it grows in intensity. Then it moves down my arm to my elbow and then goes back to a small tingle begging to be moved, just to biuld up to a crecendo moving to my elbow again until I move it, my arm that is, but as soon as I get comfy again, in any position, it starts up again. I have found, and this may help others with this, that at the first signs of it to stretch the crap out of your arms and a few push-ups never hurt, but this is only a small relief sense the last few times I have had symtems it has not work like before like your body learns the trick. Now I am a 28 year old male, so this next part may only work for males, but I have found that ejaculating, whether self enduced or w/a partner, has never failed me, at least. I am still searching for better remidies, so let me know if you have one.
I have restless arms at night and have felt like cutting them off at times I have found that instead of trying to fight off the feeling just a little thoughtfulness has made It go away. The second I feel it come on I wrap my arms in these ice packs I bought at walgeeens which I think are ankle ice wraps but they work perfect , and then I type on the computer for a few minutes and I’m all set to go to bed . Don’t try to fight it because you will lose every time. Just look at it as some alone time and don’t get stressed about it because that will make it worse. Also playing a little playstation helps if typing isn’t your thing
I was driven crazy by restless leg – and later, restless arm movement.(I have other neurologicl/spinal problems) The only thing that helped was taking (over the counter)iron tablets – which I stopped taking when it solved the problem. Since it is now the middle of the night as I write this and I am ready to chop my arm off, I guess it is time to start back on the iron! Hope this helps some of you!
I also have these problems legs and arms. And it’s the reason im up rite now. I’m fed up with not getting any sleep. I used to be able to get rid of it by doing isometric muscle contractions while I lay in bed that helped for a bit now it doesn’t. I been Getting up in the middle of the night to do jumping jacks and push-ups and it’s keeping my wife up now. It gets so bad I wish I didn’t need arms or legs I’d hack them off. I am awaiting a doctors appointment to to get med’s to deal with this crap. I’ll keep you posted on how it works for now I’m waiting on a percocet to do it’s magic so I can go back to sleep.
I have this, it kicks in in my right legs and right arm just as I’m about to go to sleep. It comes in interval of about a minute, them I have to jerk my arm and legs and the cycle begins again, no chance of sleep.
Last night I tried rubbing tiger balm over my leg and lower arm and it seemed to dull the sensation enough to get off to sleep
i also experience these sensations in my arms and legs to the point where i cant sleep at night! my dr put me on mirapex.25mg 1 in the morning and 2 about 2hours before bed and it has worked great! i also tried requip but could not take it because it made me sick!
I have just had spinal surgery( vert/disc, compression of a nerve root,pain down arm )surgery has been a huge relief, but can’t lye still enough in bed at night for more than a minute without wanting to constantly move arms & legs around.very frustrating & debilatating.I wonder if it is neurological based? If I come across a resolution I will post it.
i had the creepy feeling in my legs, but now mainly the arms. same symptoms usually before i go to bed. i feel like cutting them off!!! i have my girl friend massege my arms and that helps a little. i’ve noticed when i am stressed out is when it is the worst. whe i feel stress free i tend not to get the creepy feelings in my arms. is there an over the couter drug for this?
I have found that Benadryl, warm baths or ice, and some muscle cremes do help if you want over the counter or home remedies. Also some docs prescribe sleep aids or there are OTC sleep aids, but personally these just make me drowsy and allow the tingling to continue. I have found that I’m Iron deficient but not low enough to be anemic. My doctors have disagreed on whether someone must be anemic before Iron deficiency can cause symptoms, but I’m trying Iron supplements anyway to see what happens.
My Doc had me on Requip, which seemed to work for a couple of weeks. It made me feel sick a lot, but I still continued to take it anyway. After a few weeks I noticed rate was faster than normal and that the restlessness in my arms and legs lasted ALL DAY LONG. Now I have very little strength in my hands and I can feel my arms, legs, hands, and feet pulsate all day long. My fingers feel like they are twitching, but it doesn’t look like they are. My feet are the same way. THIS IS HELL!!! I’m going to try and take some iron pills, but as for right now I’m taking Tylenol #3 with codeine that I have left over from my last E.R. visit, to get some sleep. It’ doesn’t seem like I can get any creams or rubs to take the edge off long enough to get to sleep. Ice or cold packs work. . . until they start to warm back up or melt. I’m also worried about the connection between RLS and Parkinson’s.
I meant to say: "After a few weeks I noticed that my heart rate had become faster than normal and that the restlessness in my arms and legs lasted ALL DAY LONG."
I recently began having restless arm syndrome and looked in our "Nutrition For
Natural Healing" book written by Dr. Balch who is also a nutritionist. He said magnesium is a very important mineral because it relaxes the muscles and suggests taking 1,000 MG magnesium per day along with your calcium. He stresses that Calcium makes the muscles work, and magnesium makes them relax. Try it.
I just experienced this for the first time in my life tonight, which like a lot of posters is the reason I am up right now writing this. Like most people it starts for me as a weak little tickle and builds up to this unbearable sensation behind the elbow. I truly thought I was going insane, and really wanted to break my elbows to make it go away.I have a past history of other sleep disorders associated with narcolepsy like Hypnagogic Hallucinations and Sleep Paralysis, and as awful and terrifying as they are, I’ll take them any day over this b.s. This is absolutely terrible and I can’t take it anymore, and it’s only my first night! I’m going to browse remedies till it passes, and then i’m seeing a sleep doctor.
Yes it’s 4:21 am and here I am looking up about this over whelming feeling to put pressure on my arms and legs so this horrible feeling goes away and lets me sleep. Lately it is really bad , every night.I just had a quadruple by-pass in 2006 and then had 2 seperate cervical discectomies and fusions done this year, so I feel like even though I have survived these big hits on my health I can’t get back to being healthy without quality sleep. The one comment above mentioned magnesium and calcium and after my heart surgery my Dr. put me on it for awhile but then stopped it. Wish I could remember if I had this nerve feeling then?? So I think I will try that and I will let you know in a few weeks if it helps or not.
another sleepless night! I can:t stand this much more. I can;t controll my arms there is no pain i can not describe how it feels, only to say it wakes me up and keeps me up. I don;t know what to do about it. Help!!!!
I am so glad that I am not alone out there. I have the same problem as everyone on here. I think I am going to get some iron supplements tomorrow and see if that will help.
hey,I have suffered with this for over 25 years,and I can tell you that doctors really don’t know what to do.Most times we seem to explain ourselves to doctors in ways that they do not understand therefore suffering there misunderstanding and diagnosis so we go on suffering and desperate to find a way to stop this crazy feeling that invades us.I can tell you that trough out my life I have smoked weed to help with this and it worked.10 years a go I had an accident that left me on morphine and some other pills.While I was on the pain medication I did not have the sensations in my arms and legs,but a month ago I stopped taking all of my meds and what would you know here I am again with this crazy muscle feeling in my arms and legs.I always wondered if others suffered like me and it is a relief to find out that there is.I don’t think that smoking weed is right and I won’t go and do it but it did work.I’m hopping that my doctor can help me without having to go trough hell with meds but in all honesty narcotic was the only thing that has ever worked for me to stop this.good luck to all of you and if I find a remedie I will share with you.
I have the same feeling that starts in my chest and moves down my left arm. It is very frustrating when you are trying to go to sleep and you feel like you have to just shake your arm. I am getting it more frequently now and more during the day. Are there foods that are high in magnesium?
I have the same feeling that starts in my chest and moves down my left arm. It is very frustrating when you are trying to go to sleep and you feel like you have to just shake your arm. I am getting it more frequently now and more during the day. Are there foods that are high in magnesium?
This just started happening to me, and I suspected it might have something to do with the calcium supplement I take an hour before going to bed. I suffer from TMD (temporomandibular disorder) and wear a mouth splint, but I was still waking up with sinus pain because of the jaw clenching. My TMJ doctor suggested I take calcium before bed, but now I wake up in the middle of the night with my left arm feeling creepy crawly. I usually have to put it in a weird position or squish it with my body to get the creepy sensation to abate. I’m going to stop taking the calcium at night or else load up on magnesium!
Man I know how all you guys feel. I’m up right now because of it and cant even fall asleep with my poor girlfriend…being only 18 i remeber this happenein briefly in my youth but within the past couple of months it has gotten worse. I’m into meditation and spiritualtiy and while they arent 100 percent effective practing meditations before bed do seem to help somewhat. My meditation guru also has suggested that fried foods and fatty acids are abid role considered they block blood flow and artieries. Also I will say this the mind is very powerful there has been a time or two where Ive willed myself to not experience it as crazy as it sounds, the more you dwell on it the worse it gets..but like i said I still suffer from it both in my legs and arms and its ridiculous…Vicodins do help them infact since i havent been able to see a doctor i have been self medicating myself..dangerous and very bad i know but the vicodins and any kind of pain reliver actually do pretty much make you sleepy and totally rid yourself of the feeling.Perhaps that isnt the saftest route but losing sleep isnt health either…also for any of you who are willing to try anything to help..which im sure you all are do yourselfs all a favor and practice alittle meditation and find a teacher or someone who knows of the practice called "raiki" like the word rake but with and "e" sound at the end..supposedly according to my guru this may greatly relieft the body of the indescriable feeling..if anyone else has any more ideas on how to help keep posting em
have "rls" since I was a kid. It went away for a long time. I had a baby no to long ago and it came back, recently with full force. I am going to try the iron pills change m diet to more green veggies and drink about 10x more water that I have been drinking. I will get back to you, hopefully with positive results. As for the drugs, save them til you have, with full throttle, done everything else possible, like eating more greens, iron, magnisium…etc, to your diet. Sure pills might solve this problem, but they will create another.
reading skyler’s comments. have you had your vitamin d level tested, blood test is for vitamin d level. had weakness in arms and legs and they buzzed and jumped all day long. vitamin d level was seriously low. dr. put me on 50000 iu vitamin d is helping greatly.
i too am suffering!! ive suffered with restless legs for years and never knew what it was until my mom mentioned she had it. recently ive had a back operation on a slipped disc and was prescribed strong painkillers but over the last 3-4 weeks ive started getting restless arms!! some nights im awake at 3am crying on the side of the bed wanting to cut my arms off for causing me such misery!! im so tired, i was just going to try and get 40 winks on the sofa but that creepy feeling showed up so ive decided against it. creepy is a good description but also it feels like little rat feet running up my tendons. i wake sometimes with my hands in claws, this cant go on, am going to try magnesium and have just orders some sleepy time tea.
Hi. I am so pleased I found this site, I thought I was imagining all my symptons, I think I need to go see my doctor now, enough is enough. It affects my whole body from my neck to my toes! Its hard to describe, it’s like an itchy sensation but from the inside, I need to stretch and then that’s not enough and my muscles feel alive all the time! This is only affecting me when I get into bed, it’s not everynight, I would say about 4 times a week, enough tho eh? My head/brain is tired, my body isn’t! Help!!!!!!!
im in the same boat, my mother has always had it too . i only had it in my legs since i was a teenager but now that im 42 i just started having it in my arms and chest and i thought to myself surel y this isnt the same problem as my legs but the internet confirms it. im miserable, i took iron in the past for my legs and that helped but nothing seems to help my arms and chest including magnesium . abenadrl and calicium both cause my symptoms. i just rock myself on the couch until i fall asleep sitting up. sometimes its for 3 hours. and then i get to sleep 3 hours before i get up.
I’m 33 and RLS (and arms) has started to afflict me on a daily basis at night. I have not as of yet done anything about it, but I sense it is getting worse. Right now I can still go to the couch, twitch for a couple minutes, and get a good night’s sleep…but staying still in bed all night with my girlfriend? Good luck…it’s 4:53 am and I’m up for the day. Good thing I’m a lawyer and I actually can use the extra time at work lol. I haven’t tried any remedies yet but I know the feeling like you have to twitch.
Hi
Im 51 and have (RLS) and arms and this effects me every night. It has got to the stage that I no longer go to bed with hubby because he works and is not getting the sleep with me jerking about all over the place. So I stay up all nite until he has gone to work and then i try and sleep.
I was given requip by my dr which worked for a while and then made me violently sick, so I no longer take them. Been referred to a nero surgeon who has done an eeg and Im now awaiting results.
Hi I am 34 I have been having restless leg for a while now and it has gotten worse. the only way I can explain it, is that it starts out like a small ball of energy and continues to get bigger the more i try to contain the twicthing it moves up into my arms and chest. i can’t sleep and i toss and turn until i can’t take it anymore, then i get out of bed and try to do some stretches that never helps I cry until I pass out from exhaustion. i went to the doctor and he says that i have an enlarged thyroid but it is functioning properly. I have been having palpatations very frequently and I am very scared. they want to do an ultra sound of my heart and give me a halter monitor. i was have the palpatations so much but they are slowing down now. I am scared and don’t feel very good. I have been sleeping alot with the meds they gave me but am in fear that if i stop the meds it will go back to the same thing and i hate that feeling. i feel like the lone ranger and was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem and if they can give me some solution the doctors maybe missing
When this starts up at night I take trazdone and stay up about 1/2 an hour then go to bed and I can make it through the rest of the night.
i ws just lettin everyone know that if your doctor ever tries to put you on butalb don’t ever accept it it gives you restless legs and arms so bad you just want to cut off you legs and arms.you really don’t know what to do it really sucks.
I am a first time sufferer and feeling it terribly behind the elbow. I feel like I need to keep snapping my arms straight to get any relief, but I also realize I am under a great deal of stress. We are currently closing our business due to the awesome economy and the planets being aligned. As weird as it sounds, among the hustle of closing our shop and wrapping up loose ends we have neglected our routine life and its leaving me feeling out of sorts. Does anyone think that stress and lack of coitus have anything to do with it? Or just being in limbo emotionally could be a big factor?
so I have been up reading all of these post trying to figure out what is wrong with me and I am having the same problems as the rest of you in my left arm. I have been trying to sleep for like past 2 hours and cannot and more than likely my arm will wake me up at 9 in the morning again. I cant take it!!.
I get the light tingling feeling and my arm begins to pulsate and it feels heavy and restless. This is really a pain in the butt to deal with when you are trying to sleep.
Another thing is that my mom has been diagnosed with RLS so im pretty sure its hereditary and I need some kinda of medicine.
lease help. does any one out there get the feelings described but in their tummy?I just can’t sit or lay still when I’m tired because of it, laying on the sofa at the end of the day is a thing of the past and its this awful ‘butterflies’ in my tummy sensation thats the problem. was prescribed a very low dose of anti-depressant ,it solved it for a while but think my body has become ‘used’ to it now and doesnt have as much effect. No one else mentions the butterfly, itchty tummy but I have to move my legs or whole body to alleviate it.
I have had restless leg since I had lower back surgery in 1978, after I had 4 neck surgeries, along came restless arm!! I find that when it attacks, and it does quite often, I have ice packs in the freezer, I apply directly to the area that is itching so badly, it freezes, and it goes to sleep for a few hours. I take Mirapex 1.5mg twice a day, that helps with the restless leg, however, everything they have tried for restless arm has not worked, until I found that ice does work!!
I have the same all these people have, what should i do? My doctor told me that is the nerve caused me because i have problems in one of my disc. I do not know really what is the cause of these weird feeling in my legs and arms.
Please i need help.
i am going to go crazy…..actually, i thought i was going crazy, wanting to shove a knife in my arm. i have been trying to sleep for about 4 hours, but i cant because my arm is being all creepy crawly. i have tried everything short of meds to stop it but it wont go away. i have a 2 year old that i cant even play with anymore because im so sleepy from the mere 3 hours of sleep i get per night. please help!!!!!
Wow! I didn’t know there were so many people with the same problem I have. I have heard people say they have rls, but not the kind that we all have where your arms, legs, body cannot keep still. If I try to stay as still as possible, it is even worse, the jerking is much more severe. One doctor prescribed lorazapan, but it doesn’t help.. I was given another medicine which I had to take three times a day, every day. First of all, I didn’t sleep the entire night for the two nights I did take it and, secondly, I don’t want to have to take meds for it everyday. I would like to find something that would ease them when it is happening. If anyone finds something that helps, I wish you would e-mail me. I am 72 years old and have enough other aches and pains. I can deal with them, but not with this. Tonight is about the third time this week and it is getting more often. Someone told me that it is caused by a lack of potassium. I don’t know. Good luck to all of us
Caffeine had that effect on me. I would wake up at 1 or 3 AM. It would take an hour for the effect to wear off. Forget the drugs — and lay off caffeine after 12:00 Noon.
i moved from vancouver bc to waterloo ontario and now i get this same feeling i used to sleep like a rock it is a lot more humid here also the water is badly chlorinated so i have a water softner which uses salt and also a brita arg cant sleep
I have the same thing where if I do too much of anything… too much sleep, too much of not enough sleep, too much activities… anything that would stress me out physically or even mentally, I would have the problem of wanting to jerk my arms and legs. I would also get real shakey and feel like a spaz. It use to get so bad that I had trouble standing, walking, and driving. If I tried to igore the urges, it would become very painfuI. So due to the pain, I was forced to move my limbs. It felt like I was lossing control and my limbs had a mind of their own. I thought I was going nuts. I even had thoughts of wanting to cut off my limbs because of the pain. Then I took some vitamin pills and it helped with the pain and the urges. And then after learning of RLS and what can trigger it, I stopped drinking anything that has caffeine. Now I hardly notice the urges.
Liz, I have RLS (not diagnosed by a doctor yet, as I’ve never talked to them about it…but my dad has it and I have ALL the symptoms), and I get the butterflies, itchy feeling in my stomach. I had it last night in fact, along with the legs. So you are not the only one!
i drove a semi for a living until a few months ago .i would drive until i was fighting sleep then id hit a rest area an crawl back in my bunk knowing id fall right to sleep about ten minuites later id start getting these weird feelings in my arms an legs thats hard to explain . its like a tingling ball of energy running up an down my arms an into my chest .or ants crawling in your veins iwould toss an turn till it was time i had to roll or i would be late then 15 minuitesdown the road id be fighting sleep again im 48 yrs old and ive got back problems and arthiritis my doctor blames everything on pinched nerves in my back he prescribed me a pill called gabepentin theres times i think it helps but theres times it dont i was up till 4 am last night thats how i found this im not glad that others have this because it truly is miserable but it is a relief to know that my minds not going bad ha ha good luck guys if i get a answer ill be back with it
It is a little after 9pm and I am worried about going to bed soon. Worried about sleep? Yes. I am worried because I know that sometime in the night I will be awakened with severe sensations in my right arm that will stress me out. I was in a hot bath @ 4am last night as a last ditch effort to get the suffering to end. The docs have diagnosed me with RLS and gave me a couple of different meds but they did not work or if they did I was not aware because I could not sleep while taking them. they kept me awake, that makes no sense. The sensations start in my hand so I shake and shake it….. them it moves upward to my arm,,,,, It is so severe that I would cry if I thought it would make it better, I actually feel like screaming, but that would just make me more miserable. I walked up and down the stairs last night swinging my arms over my head hoping that getting some better circulation would help. I will try the magnesium approach.
I too have this horrible condition. it is so hard to explain to people. My arms and legs get the sensation and it almost pushes me to the point of suicide. last December the condition got so severe one night i ended up in the hospital screaming and uncontrollable movements until the doctor put me in a sleep induced coma on a ventilator. the ER staff thought I was crazy. It getting worse and from research i find there is no cure.
I have this and use carbidopa-levodopa (SINEMET®) Tablets.
I started using one in the evening, then 2, now 3 and sometimes an extra during the night. They make me drowsy so I have to take a caffien pill when driving. This is the only way I can stand flying on a plane. I take one 1/2 hour before boarding and one as soon as I board and usually am fine for the entire flight. They take about 1/2 to take effect but I don’t think I could live without them. On my insurance plan it doesn’t matter if I get 30, 60, 90 or 120 it’s the same price of $15 for the generic carbidopa-levodopa.
I had all the strange sensations in my legs that everyone is talking about . It started about 3 years ago every so often with the crawling feeling in my legs where you try and message it away. Always late in the evening when I was getting tired and ready to go to sleep. Then it became more frequent till it was every night. Next it started waking me up and it was full blown pain up and down both legs. The only relief was to hit my legs all over. It would keep me up sometimes like an hour and a half. One night was so bad I went on the computer and goggled severe restless leg syndrome. I got onto some website that was a lot like this one but I came up with a remedy that works for me. It’s a crazy thing but for me it really works. I thought it was an insane idea but thought what do I have to lose by giving it a shot. So I went to bed with a small bar of soap between the mattress and the sheet down by my legs. I woke up in the morning and couldn’t believe that I had fallen asleep that quickly. Actually I had to check for the soap because I thought I had dreamed up the whole idea. There was even a doctor on the site who said he had patients that told him they used the soap and for some strange reason it works, he had no idea why it does. I’ve been doing this for about a year and about 3 times I’ve had to change it. If suddenly the pain returns change the soap even if it’s in the middle of the night. No particular soap is needed, I use the small hotel size bar. My son works with a young lady who told him she was tired all the time because of RLS and he shared the soap secret with her. She couldn’t thank him enough, it’s worked for her for the past 6 months. You can google RLS and soap, it does come up. Just give it a try, maybe you’ll be surprised. Pleasant Dreams! I don’t know if it will work for arms.
I have this periodically, and I really think for me it’s stress related. I’ve read online that Hawthorn Berry has worked for some people. I picked some up from the vitamin section at our local store but haven’t tried it yet. Just thought I’d let you know though as some of you may want to give it a go.
I was diagnosed with RLS last summer for my legs, put on 1.0mg Mirapex. All was well, ended up having 2 surgeries in August for ruptured discs in lower back. Now my legs are doing great with the Mirapex but now my arms are driving me INSANE. I am going in for another back surgery tomorrow, so hopefully the restless arms will go away. If it doesn’t I truly believe they will have to put me in a white coat. There is no other horrible feeling than dreading going to bed at night because you know what is going to happen within 30 minutes.
It happened to me again last night! In my arms, Sometimes it happens in my legs but mostly my arms these days. I can’t sleep and sometimes have go to work without any sleep. It SUCKS! I went to a concert in MLPS last night and was so tired all the way home, I figured I would fall right to sleep, but nope, was up all night, tossing and turning. I squeeze it, pinch it lay on it, try not to think of it. NOTHING works! I could just cry when this happens, I am going to try iron, which no one ever came back and said it works. I don’t want no crazy drugs from the doctor quite yet. I Feel bad for my boyfriend too…I kept him up a few times. Maybe the doc will give out percocet…now that’d be nice.
THIS SUCKS. This is the most uncomfortable thing I’ve felt in a long time. This it what your body feels like when you’re going through opiate withdrawal. I’ve done it a few times. It came out of nowhere (no drug withadrawal), and is keeping me awake well into the morning. I decided to have a couple hits of pot, and all of the horrible restless feelings went away. I highly recommend it.
Two hits of hits of pot. That’s all it takes.
And Michigan just legalized medicinal marijuana. Hmmm…
Its so good to find out Im not the only person in the world with this problem. I have the RLS with my arms, so I guess you call it RAS!! the only thing that helps me is push-ups untill my arms go weak. I find its best to just get straight up once the feeling starts and just do push-ups, and keep doing them untill I cant hold my own body weight, then get back into bed and lie on my back and relax. I usually fall back asleep and its all good. I would love to be able to just take a pill and that would be that, I think I’ll take a trip to the doctors now I have a name for what is happening to my arms!!! thank you people!
It’s 1 a.m & here I am…This is the most horroble feeling ever..not being able to control the feeling in your own body I cant smoke the pot, wish i could just quit though Noone has come back with the reaults on the iron deficiency eiher it works and they arent waking up at night or its not working. I dont drink caffeine except for coffee in the morning so it cant be that. Ive tried to take hot showers and put on sweats after that, (its for my legs) seems to help but it could be my imagination though. The arm thing is new it used too be just in my legs.Cant take this feeling anymore Im off to the shower!!! Wish me luck.
ok so Im back, I took the iron pill (since I had 1) and less than an hour later it seems to b working, I dont know if its just worn off on its own but the feeling has subsided
I am reading this and finding some comfort to know that i am not the only one with this. I am having the creepy feeling in my left arm and leg. Its not tingily rather it is like just strange not sure how to describe it. But does any one get it only on one side?its only my left side and sometimes i get a headache also that kinda feels creepy and tingly. anyone have this/ could rls affect only one side(left leg and left arm)??? it also seems to be worse if i had a coffee in the morning? sound familiar??