“What do you mean ‘restless leg syndrome’?”
Attempts to describe the feeling of RLS:
Irrepressible bodily desire to move the legs
Restlessness
Treatment?
Movement (relief lasts the duration of movement)
Patience
Patience
Patience (relief lasts the duration of patience)
Symptoms, though they can occur at any time, most often occur just before one falls asleep.
Symptoms:
Irrepressible bodily desire to move the legs
Legs, having acquired both consciousness and freedom from blind submission to outside authority, which desire to exercise their will
Restlessness
Side effects:
Hopelessness
Submission to the newly personified legs’ authority
Loss of sleep
Hopelessness
Anger
Hopelessness, hopelessness, hopelessness
What roommates can expect:
After one day: nothing
After two days: mention of symptoms
After four days: mention of hopelessness
After seven days: mention of anger..
After eight days: mention of anger.
After nine days: mention of anger
After ten days: late night groans (“Just let me sleep!…”); not to be confused with sleep talking
After two weeks: a blog post discussing RLS
Doctor appointment tomorrow. I have already been given “cardioplus” (a whole food supplement to help with the symptoms).It has helped, but I’m still tired and my symptoms now occur during the day.
I don’t want to take a pharmaceutical.
I imagined RLS would make me stronger. If I could ignore the restless, irrepressible bodily desire to move my legs, I would be stronger. Maybe I am stronger, but I am also tired and now I’m hopeless throughout the day.
I don’t want to take a pharmaceutical.
Two days ago I grabbed the top of an open door and I pulled myself up high enough so that I could place my feet on the doorknob. I didn’t want to step on the doorknob, so I just tapped it with my feet and let myself down. The RLS I was experiencing went away.
And then it came back.
