1) Tanzanian crooner Mr. Nice, real name Lucas Mkenda, is a Takeu style cro… Read Full Bio ↴1) Tanzanian crooner Mr. Nice, real name Lucas Mkenda, is a Takeu style crooner. His Takeu style comes from the initials of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda respectively. Mr. Nice's music incorporates elements from all three countries. He is currently reported to be the highest paid entertainer in East Africa at 4000 Dollars a show. He went professional in 1999 with the release of his maiden album 'Kidali Po' and towards the end of 2002, he released his second album 'Rafiki', which now dominates the airwaves on Tanzanian radio.
2) Mr. Nice is also a hungarian hip-hop beatmaker.

Restless
Mr. Nice Lyrics

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This month's been crazy
So much to do
Traveling around the world
Been feeling restless lately
So many places
For us to drive to
Recent memories, distant world
Begin to swirl

Your arms fall slowly
You raise them quickly
Hands clasp behind your head
Cross your legs and recline

Take a deep breath
It's been a while
I missed your calls
I've been yearning
And learning how to tell
Time isn't real and neither am I
It's okay to dream and it's okay to cry
Sleep in. again. weekend. no end

So many days passed
I stayed inside
Recent memories, distant world
Begin to swirl
Your arms fall slowly
You raise them quickly

Hands clasp behind your head
Cross your legs and recline

Overall Meaning

The song "Restless" by Mr. Nice talks about the singer's experience of feeling restless due to their busy schedule while traveling around the world. The beginning of the song talks about how much there is to do and how many places there are to drive to, but despite all of this, the singer feels restless. The line "recent memories, distant world begin to swirl" suggests that the singer is in a state of confusion and things may not be as clear as they seem.

In the next part of the song, the singer describes a moment of relaxation where they are with someone who they have missed and yearned for. The line "time isn't real and neither am I" suggests that the singer is struggling to find a sense of reality and perhaps feeling overwhelmed by their busy life. The song ends with the same lines from the beginning, emphasizing the circular nature of the singer's thoughts and feelings.

Overall, "Restless" by Mr. Nice reflects on the paradox of feeling restless while being busy with exciting things and experiencing a sense of confusion and uncertainty amidst the excitement.

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Comments from YouTube:

me_shell

2y↑116

I started taking Magnesium glycinate 325mg, 10mg of Melatonin and sometimes add in a THC/CBD/CBN gummy or tincture. This combo has allowed me to get at least 5-6hrs of rest at night. Prayers to all who suffer, this is an extremely frustrating syndrome!

Alex Neil

@Julie Owen well ya it’s an opioid and an SSRI.. you should taper from that medication

eliana

it certainly is! imelatonin does not wrk for me iron sometimes helps quinine tonic water stops it just taste awful

Julie Owen

@Angela Prater unfortunately, tramadol made things horrible for me when I tried to quit...

JUST 4 TRUTH

Good advice in video and in comment! I have found that Meditation at Bed Time also helps several issues! Clearing the Mind and Releasing the Stress! Prayer!

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Jennifer Daulby

2y↑15

I've had RLS for about 15yrs & can say if I'm on the 4-5th night of this awful syndrome - sometimes it can make you feel suicidal. I take Sifrol on a high dose but over time it has become ineffectual. My Mother & Aunts all had it. Just feels like torture. Best wishes from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤

Gideon 33

My sympathies towards you & fam…I’ve been on this train for 9 years…have you tried a combination of Ropinirole 5mgs and B1 100iu?

Susan Priem

You must go to a reputable doctor. I’ve has it for 53 years. Also watch your diet. Alcohol, sugar, salt, night shade vegetables (can be the worst for you) and anything fermented.

Denise James

2y↑1

Also in Australia. I've had this, but didn't know what it was, since I was a child, I am now 75. My Mum and Grandma also suffered dreadfully with RLS. Grandma had no meds, she passed away in mid 80s. Mum took Sifrol until she passed away at 90 and I have also been on this for years. I am very active, swim and exercise. I find that if I don't take the Sifrol around 6pm I will be up walking half the night. It doesn't stop it though and in the last year I've begun to have it in my arms. I drink a lot of tea although last cup at 3.30. I have had a small issue of low iron but that corrected next blood test. After listening to this Dr I think I will reduce my Sifrol and see what happens. Would hate this to continue to escalate into the future. It isn't pleasant to be walking around on preferably cold tiles, kicking and tensing to try to stop the sensation it is, I agree, sometimes suicidal thoughts with it occurring so often and so fiercely. I also unconsciously move my feet around a lot, my husband tells me, when I am sitting on the sofa or in bed of a morning having a cuppa. Perhaps this is natures way of helping! Good luck with your RLS.

Sour Eggz

2y↑10

I think I have this - maybe less severe - and isn’t constant but I have been in desperate situations needing to move my legs. It probably looks insane as I shuffle about or stretching my legs weirdly… but it can be unbearable. It is like an ache that isn’t painful just like a building up of anxiety.

Ari Gumora

2y↑4

So interesting learning about the iron piece. My doctors have said I had solid iron levels but I’ve had low iron symptoms for a long time including RLS. I didn’t realize brain iron levels can be lower than blood iron levels. I noticed that when I avoid certain foods that make me bloated, my RLS and shortness of breathe start to go away. Maybe it’s because I’m absorbing my nutrients better. Food for thought, pun intended ;)

Michelle Sovereign

3y↑16

I first suffered with this after taking anti nausea medicine. It was hell and 20 yrs ago people in general didn't know what it was. I was later given anti depressants and anti psychotics and the restless legs expanded to restless arms too. This made me suicidal.
I can tell people that a good iron supplement works wonders. Also taking a b12 supplement since that helps with iron. Keep your diet clean as possible and get a walk as often as you can.
I get a flare up when I slack off on iron and b12 and quickly get back on them properly.
My iron tests came back as low and low normal range on different tests months apart.
Magnesium helps too, in a hot bath as salts or as a tablet. ( in addition to iron.and b12.)
Take an iron supplement that's gentle.on the stomach and bowels. Pay extra for.it. It's worth it.

It gets better. Don't feel hopeless. You can get your life back.

Samiyyah El-Amin

Thank you very helpful. What iron pills do you take?

FaerieDust

2y↑21

Currently up at 1:30 AM suffering from a particularly bad "episode". I feel it in my legs, arms, up my back, and even in the face - it's an absolutely hellish experience. It hasn't been quite this bad in a long time, I think I'd forgotten just how painful it could get. Bleh.

Veronica Lucas

It’s 3am n I’m still up coz of rls. I’ve taken Sifrol tablet, iron, magnesium tablet and 2 osteomol as there’s pain in knee as well. When I walk around it goes away, but when I slide down it comes back. I’ve soaked 4 times tonight but still pain n restless sensation keeps going back. My eyes are sleepy but my legs won’t let me sleep. It’s frustrating.

Eduardo Mendez

3y↑44

I experience it this syndrome since I was a kid, it was very desperate, anxiety, I remember to pour cold water in a tub and stay inside for at least 30 minutes. As time passed by I experienced randomly but since this pandemic started I started experiencing every day, my sleeping habits change drastically.

Inese Vitola

2y↑1

@A. Alberts ohh, will try it, thanks

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Betty Eadie

3y↑76

This is the best way I can describe what it feels like. The feeling of "losing your stomach" when going down,forward on a ferris wheel. That sensation that may make some ppl quiver as they feel their stomach feel quivery on the ferris wheel ,going down. THAT is the sensation in the legs. If anyone can relate to that "losing the stomach sensation" If anyone else can relate to this analogy please share

Kieontay Williams

I feel that it makes you feel like you want to scream

Truie Bandy

@Louie Andrada I do the same thing!

AndehX

YES! Absolutely! This is how it feels for me, and it's by far the best description i've read. I was describing it feeling like an adrenaline rush, that forces you to tense your legs, but this feeling in your stomach when you're you on a ferris wheel is definitely more accurate.

Zeather

Yes, it’s a similar feeling to the rushing, tickling sensation of falling but it lasts so long that it builds up to be unbearable.

LinzToMySoul

Omg yes! Perfect analogy.

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Haley Pirio

3y↑15

The intensity of the sensation varies a lot. When it's bad for me, it feels as if my body is trying to turn itself inside out. Like intense anxious energy is rampaging under my skin. It's the build-up of a shiver that stretches on, never actually shivering. You need to move your legs or body in the same vein as needing to sneeze or shiver.

Glo818

2y↑10

My husband bought me a weighted blanket. I fold it about 4 times and place it in my legs at night. It helps reduce the feeling for me by at least 50%. Not all the way but for me anything that can help, I will use.

Ashley Taylor Fredrickson

Wow that's AMAZING I can't wait 2try it I'm so desperate for anything that can help!

Mikel The Man

3y↑58

I get it in both arms and legs at same time and this description of not being able to to describe the feeling has kept me from seeing a doctor for it. I’ve mentioned it years ago and doctor brushed it off so I just let it go . I go long periods without issue but than it’s just exhausting when it does hit. After seeing this video I may speak to my doctor if episodes begin to occur more frequently again. Thanks for info

Sejal Shah

@Samina Iftikhar Thanks Samina for the idea!!💕💜🙏

Samina Iftikhar

2y↑2

Use hot water

Samina Iftikhar

2y↑3

One simple thing just add three cloves in a quarter cup of water at and drink it in the morning don’t eat cloves just drink water you will amazed by the result

KingUgly DaGoonie

2y↑1

Yea I get it in my arms as well smh.

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Jaana Holder

2y↑4

Thank you for this talk...I wonder why magnesium wasn't mentioned?...it definitely helps...I take it internally before bed and also topically as a gel which really helps...RSL is horrible...I hope everyone finds relief from this strange condition 💚

Tara Diane

2y↑2

This video is EXCELLENT and he's right in line with my own doctor. I'm 46, experienced my first RLS symptoms when I was barely a teen, and it increased when I started needing allergy meds and anti-anxiety meds. I'm now on Gabapentin and it's managed with that. This is an excellent video to share with family etc if you need help experiencing what you're dealing with, or even if RLS is just new to you and you want more info. Everything I would have wanted him to touch on, he did. Very well done!

GnomeGardeners

3y↑18

I’ve noticed my symptoms are triggered by caffeine, anxiety and inactivity. It is an unintentional, rhythmic movement involving lower back, hip, knees and ankles - almost like bicycling. Walking and massage helps and my electric blanket. I have noticed this since a teen and am now post menopausal and still have it. As long as I don’t get a muscle cramp, I am generally able to fall back to sleep even with the continued involuntary movement.

Eduardo Mendez

3y↑3

In my case my feet are very hot, I used ice cold pad and rise up my legs for 30 minutes but it is very difficult go to sleep, every day I start falling asleep around 4 in the morning but since I need to wake at 7 it is very painful

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yvonnegougelet

2y↑5

I have had this since I was 16. Over 20 years. I have found sugar to be a HUGE trigger. If I eat any type of sweets later in the day, especially dessert, my RLS is really bad.

I found that tonic water, black organic cherry juice and medical grade cbd oil all help alleviate this. Along with cutting g back on sugar.

I will try to take iron supplies again, as well as est more iron rich foods.

Lucy Smith

2y↑16

Literally experiencing this right now. And his description of what it feels like is exactly right. Hard to describe, no pain, but im getting this nerve ache all over my legs. This is the second night it has happened and its keeping me from having a good sleep. I do find taking Tylenol helps get rid of it, but I don't want to take that every night. Im 24 years old. I did take this week off of working out because I was sick (working out starts again tonight 5x a week). The fact that I want to walk around to relieve pain is right.. I swear I have this.. I just don't want this forever :'(

Side note: I noticed this after I had take out fried rice at a viet pho place. Probably has MSG in it.. I googled MSG, and it can cause numbing or pain or tickly feelings in your body... can last up to 72 hours. I noticed it right after I ate the fried rice. Took a nap, the feeling went away.. later that night i had it again for leftovers, and right away i got the feeling again...........

Sherrie Haynes

@Sigrid Moehlis
Thank you so much!!!

Sigrid Moehlis

2y↑1

@Sherrie Haynes same to you🙏😘

Sherrie Haynes

2y↑1

@Sigrid Moehlis
I understand, brain fog is usually my every day for some reason! Of course it could be because of the crap going on in my life! I pray you will have better days and much love to you!

Sigrid Moehlis

2y↑1

@Sherrie Haynes I gained so much weight on it! I am on a high dose of libedopa/ Garbetopa/ brain fog not able to process , Having trouble at work! 😥

Sherrie Haynes

@Magne Furuholmen
The Dr put me on seroquil, 1 hour before bed and I take 2 1/2 pills, 100 mg, also gabapentin 1 hrs before bed and it helps a lot!!

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Nella Fitzgerald

2y↑6

Sometimes it hurts and I wish that was talked about more. It seems like it’s often made light of. It’s more than just being restless. I feel pain. Both in my arms and legs

Lazlo

When I force myself to not move my legs, I feel a repeated peaking where there is an intense urge to move the legs, then it fades, then it peaks, and the cycle continues. After fighting through it, I finally can go to sleep. I also pump my feet and often go to sleep while constantly moving my feet. Once I fall asleep, then it seems I'm okay. I've had this off and on since I was a teenager and now in my 50s.

KARLA Crawley

3y↑185

I don’t “feel” anything, I just can’t not move. I can’t stop myself, almost like a reflex.

C Ziv

I’m the opposite! The sensation in my legs, well, language fails me, but it’s TORTURE. I make a conscious effort to hold still because I don’t want to disturb my partner. I have severe insomnia (to the point of hallucinating) and aeb my sleep study, during which I never entered REM sleep.

Jaden

iron deficiency is linked to restless leg syndrome so try iron supplements

Linda O’Hanraha-hanrahan

I’ve had it my entire life and I’m 52. If I’m sleeping by myself it doesn’t bother me. They’ll shake them for hours and eventually fall asleep. If my husband comes to bed while I’m still awake it’s only an issue because it can keep him awake. One bonus-I’ve got the legs of a runner and I haven’t run since…like ever.

Ritesh Gadhavi

Wait Karla Crawley do u find it hard to sleep

Snails

My wife said I sometime put one of my knee up, and then keep it up while I'm sleep. Not the whole leg, but just the knee. Like, you bend your knee up while lay on your back while your foot still on the floor. My thigh and foot still on the bed, I just put up the knee. Then I balancing it, swinging left or right and balance it up again. All that while sleeping.

She feel the swing when it happens. She think I'm keep up all night, but no I'm sleeping. then she tried to put it down to my side or straighten my leg, but I'll just get it up again. I never know it until my wife said it.

All I know is when I'm doing nothing, like sitting, I just like to move my leg. Movement like doing double pedal for drummer. I guess I'm on the soft symptoms. Not the extremely torturing ones. Also, no, I haven't get it checked since it isn't disturbing me, yet. I don't know if it is a RLS for real, since no doctor sentence it for me.

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J S

2y↑1

I’m 47 and have had RLS at least since high school. I describe it as a tickling sensation in the muscles. Mostly in the hamstrings, quads and glutes. Sometimes I feel it in my back and my arms. There nights it takes me almost 3 hours to be able to sleep.

Tara Steines

3y↑67

I’ve found my anti-anxiety meds caused a lot of restless leg. I think that acidic foods also provoke it as well. Makes me want to chop my legs off some nights. Horrible 🤯

King Solo

@Dragonfly I have beat my legs into bruises. I’m not kidding. Where it’s hard to walk the next day.

Dragonfly

2y↑1

@King Solo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, I tried that, but maybe I didnt dare to hit myself toooooooo hard. Do you hit your thigh area only...bcs I feel like its the entire leg.Its funny how many of us feel like chopping the legs off, and most likely from the thigh down!!!🤣🤣🤣

Deborah Meyers

Sorry to hear it's bad Tara I have it bad too xx

John Citizen

Been taking 1g (or a small scoop) of Taurine just before bed mixed in water. It is a muscle relaxant. It does help.

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sirlordcomic

3y↑6

Very useful video. Thanks. I get it every night to a greater or lesser extent. It’s particularly bad in the soles of my feet and in the palms of my hands. The best way I can describe it is as if something is crawling beneath your skin. It comes on as soon as I start to get tired and can be very unpleasant. When I move my feet or put pressure on the skin it stops.

akeleven

3y↑7

For me RLS is like an achy itchy feeling along nerves. I was first diagnosed in college and prescribed quinine, which made a mess out of my stomach. At the time I thought it was because of drinking gallons of iced tea while studying. I was getting a lot of exercise walking to classes.
Glad to hear the discussion especially that common over the counter drugs exasperate the problem.

Margaret Perry

2y↑2

Thank you for the information. I use magnesium, up to 1500 mg nightly and before long car rides, airplane trips, movies etc. it works a lot of the time, but there is often nothing that stops the rls. Calcium has been mentioned to me as a possible treatment, but I’m sceptical. I did once use the medication that is now not considered a good option, luckily it put me to sleep day and night, so I didn’t persist with it. Can you comment on the use of magnesium and calcium?

Meg Hopkins

3y↑16

It feels as if you were kneeling down and your legs went dead . As you stand up your legs feel like this just before they get better.
My daughter described it like this and I agree.

C AA

3y↑3

yes

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Sales North America

3y↑32

Wow.. Very impressed. Very few doctors understand the whole picture and how to treat issues ethically. This guy seems like the real deal! This video helped me understand my particular RSL case and also helped me figure out how to fix it. Great video.

Janet Tempest

Same for me it does run in families my sister had it and thyroid Diabities. We need blood test for B12 active. Very few medical people understand this not researched enough. What a brilliant Doctor well done for your honesty 🙏😇🙏

Inese Vitola

2y↑1

Can’t fix it, all my life, I am scared to go anywhere or fly longer than hour. Taking ramipex, don’t help anymore . Just exhausting

Erica Schneider

3y↑7

Dr. Berkowski is so knowledgeable. He is definitely on top of his game. Great in depth explanation. Very impressive.

Tzumer

I have severe restless leg syndrome and this has helped me so far: going for walks daily, iron, B vitamins, cold showers, magnesium, wim hof method, ashwagandha, weighted blanket, cooling my legs, stretching and massages, meditation, improving Co2 tolerance to overall reduce stress levels and improve sleep, exercise, sunbathing, don't sit for longer than 30 minutes (get up and move and stretch), if you consume caffeine then only drink it in the first 3 hours after waking up and not past that, remove ALL lights 2 hours before sleep to increase melatonin production (only very dim lights are okay), brainwave entrainment device (can put the brain into a calm state by altering brainwaves), a segmented sleep schedule can also help a lot

AndehX

I sometimes get an extremely uncomfortable urge to stretch my right leg when im lying down at night, and I've always wondered what it is. It only ever happens at night when im lying in bed too, which is why I think it may be mild RLS. I'm fairly sure I have an iron deficiency and I do also drink coffee late at night too. It's really a hard sensation to describe. It's not painful or anything, infact I'd describe it more as a sensation of over-excitement that a child, or a dog may feel when you see them freak out uncontrollably. It feels more like an adrenaline rush that I get specifically behind my right kneecap. It's an uncontrollable feeling to stretch and tense my leg. It doesn't usually stop me from falling asleep, and it's always gone by the morning.

Meg

I've suffered since I was a preteen and my father did also. As an adult I got diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy and have read that there is a correlation between the two disorders. Mine comes on when I get sleepy and then keeps me awake. It is like a restless pain in legs. It is miserable, absolutely miserable.

Macee Johnston

2y↑3

I’ve suffered for about 5 years and it always happens in my feet rather than my legs. Cannabis always gave me immediate relief, but I am a newly sober alcoholic in recover and I gave up all intoxicants. Back to the suffering in my feet again 😩

Janet Tempest

Great video doctor brilliant 🤩 thank you learned such a lot restless legs does run in family’s my sister had same and thyroid and low iron. We need more research into this and diet. You are what you eat 🙏😇🙏

Maggie Jacobs

2y↑3

This happens to me when my body wants me to sleep (being tired combined with sitting still) but I try to stay awake. If I stay "relaxing" but resist sleeping, eventually it reaches a point where it takes revenge and doesn't let me sleep when I finally try. Remedy for me is staying active or sleeping once I feel tired.

Carolyn Grasso

2y↑1

I think this describes what brings it on for me, too, at least some of the time. This is why I dread airplane flights longer than a couple hours. Basically any time my body wants to sleep and I don’t get to go to bed. It’s not really pain for me as much as just not being able to NOT move my legs. If I don’t move them, it builds up to where I have to move them.
Great video from an extremely knowledgeable physician.

Kirstine Hviid

This helped med a lot. Thank you. I was on the wrong medicin I can see now. My RLS got worse and suddenly started early. I never got my iron levels looked at...

uppasana

3y↑4

Answered all my questions 🙏 thank you for the detailed discussion of RLS.

Stealth_

3y↑4

Glad I found this. I have restless WRIST syndrome. Get it very very minutely in my legs, but oh boy my wrists suffer. I have the constant urge to shake my wrists, an uncontrollable spasm so to speak. Feels like my wrists are constantly itching/tingling/forced to move. I only get it at night and briefly after waking up. Doesn't happen all month, maybe only a week out of a calender month. Wouldn't wish this syndrome on anyone. I'm a 32 year old male and it's reduced me to tears with how frustrating and sleep deprived it makes you. A very underrated disorder, if you don't have it, count your blessings.

John C

3y↑8

If you simply cannot sleep with RLS, one tip i've used and found great is to kneel beside the bed, and lay your torso down on the bed as usual. You'll need an understanding partner of course because it looks weird, and a high bed isn't ideal either, but when your RLS is really fizzing, sleeping in a kneeling position is really great. At very least, it gets you into "sleep mode" and you can climb into bed then and sleep uninhibited. Try it...

Jennifer Daulby

2y↑1

I love your description of 'fizzing' sensation - very accurate! Best wishes from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤

KristinaG3

3y↑6

I literally followed what my doctor said & took 2 magnesium pills and about 15 mins later I felt sleepy & the spasms and throbbing fuzzy feeling in my feet went away!! This was day 1 so hoping this continues bc this is new to me and so annoying. Falling asleep is always difficult 😞 p.s I also stretched my legs and massaged a lil.

KristinaG3

2y↑4

Just an update: the magnesium worked. It’s been over a months and I stopped taking it for a few days to see if I still would get the restless leg and I didn’t. I’m still going to continue it and then maybe take it twice a week to maintain.

KristinaG3

3y↑2

@D Hi, I’m sorry yo hear you’re going through all that 😔 I’m glad it worked to provide you a little comfort. I’m going to continue for 2 more months & the see what my dr. Recommends. There’s night I forget & have no issues but I’m hoping later on the magnesium in my daily vitamin supplement is suffice. At least to manage any discomfort. Hope & pray things go well for you.

D

3y↑2

@KristinaG3 hey there, I took the magnesium and my RLS was gone in about 10 minutes. I so happy. This is not sustainable though because I am in kidney failure and on night time peritoneal dialysis and since kidneys process magnesium so my nurse suggested a fistula/chest cath. I go in tomorrow to discuss further. Thank you so much for your advice and follow up. It has motivated me to do something about the problem other than suffer.

KristinaG3

@D How did it work out?

KristinaG3

3y↑1

@Mariusz Bryla A lot of great info!! Thank you for sharing. The magnesium chelated from Walmart is working well for me so I’ll continue because it’s cheap. I did add the calcium citrate & D3 because I started seeing a dietitian and the recommended. I’m excited to get on a healthier path. I did see that “CALM” at Amazon had great ratings.

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Sheila Rodgers

2y↑8

After paying close attention to my body over the years. I’ve found that eating after 7:30 p.m. always triggers restless legs and keeps me tossing and turning until 5 or so in the morning. I only get RL if I eat after 7:30 p.m. I don’t understand it but that’s my conclusion. I’m up right now with RL because I ate after 7:30 tonight 😩😩😩😩😩😩. This really sucks.

Daph G

3y↑6

With me I feel a disturbing tickling inside of my bones, inside of my chest and legs. I've had it since I was little and it's so annoying when you don't know how to fix it. Yesterday I tried getting up and jumping around, thankfully that helped.

Puddle

2y↑1

I had the same thing-- like bugs crawling under my skin. You might want to get your iron levels checked... low iron levels are known to cause rls. The itchy feeling basically went away after my iron was restored.

Grido21

3y↑1

YES that the sorta sensation I have with my legs same I had when I was a kids I would hit my legs or try to stretch

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Elizabeth Butler

You are both very responsible doctors you've said nothing to alarm anybody. Thanks for this informative video.

Lesley Swan

3y↑7

A very informative interview. Thank you. As a chronic sufferer of both rls and plm it is great to hear someone so informative even if there isn't any magic bullets.

Sally Shipwreck

2y↑1

Best description I heard was spiders crawling under skin! It also makes me anxious because I know it won't stop. I'm on pramipexole now and want to get off, I've cut the dose in half but am concerned about rebound on quitting. On initial complaint no one tested iron level and I was started on .5 mg pill, highest dose for this condition. I'm so sick of doctors who don't pay attention! Might try acupuncture.

Gideon 33

3y↑6

Thank you…It’s a sensation that feels like a slow low & gradually increasing electric current. For me, it started with a simple fall causing Sciatica, shortly after this, RLS literally kicked in. I’m a witness to this correlation. Eight years of taking Ropiniroles, from 1mg to now 4mg. I find the only other remedy is movement, or sleeping in the bathtub. Is there a corrective surgery for Sciatica? It is after all, the longest nerve in the body.

Gideon 33

2y↑1

@JP H Iron deficiency could be the cause for you…perhaps your body isn’t absorbing it efficiently…I Tried it…but, & hope it works for you. Vitamin B1 (100 iu) in the mornings & Ropinirole 3mg 1 hour before I even hit the sack. The problem with RLS is that it causes sleep deprivation & I end up falling a sleep while standing up & in the middle of any physical interaction. Very best!

JP H

2y↑1

@Gideon 33 Thank you - I picked up an iron supplement a few days ago and last night was much better. After reading your desciption of slow current, I was considering buying digital TENS unit to stimulate my calf muscles before bed - not sure yet tho. Thanks for the response

Gideon 33

@JP H have you tried Vitamin B1 100mg? It takes the edge off…but just a bit.

JP H

2y↑1

very good analogy - It best describes how my RLS feels. "It’s a sensation that feels like a slow low & gradually increasing electric current."

🦋AriesSweety🦋

3y↑4

Iv had this problem since I was 17 and pregnant with my first baby. That's when it first started. I'm 43, I can go around 3 or 4 months without issue but then BOOM itll hit me one night and once it starts itll hang around for a week or 2 every single night and then just as it came, it goes away. Till a few months and it happens all over again. It's pretty painful for me sometime in the sense that its SUCH an uncomfortable feeling I have to tense my leg or arm muscles and move them. I'll get up walk around a bit ,then try to get back in bed and nope, it happens again and its like this all night long. I'll be just absolutely exhausted during the day. I am anemic so maybe that's the reason for my RLS however, I havnt always had problems with anemia yet have always had RLS symptoms. I don't take my iron pills as I should so I'm taking them right now because this is just absolutely unbearable now. I'm sick and literally tired of this RLS.

317 stitches

3y↑2

I had restless leg as early as 12 years old. I didn’t know back then that there was a name for it. I find that when I’m on my feet doing yard work, gardening etc. OMG! You were talking about a weighted blanket. Never heard of that but I would ask my husband to throw his leg on mine when I went to bed. It almost felt like he could stop the sensations in my legs. I am responding to this video at around 5 am. I’ve had no sleep again. I am getting depressed because I’ve had this restless leg most of my life. Every job that I’ve had since 16, I’ve had to stand.

heba30003

I had this syndrome my entire life. I'm in my 30's now. It's pretty severe on me. It's very annoying of course but it bothers me mostly because if no one seem to be able to sleep well in bed with me :( and this is a problem. I do experience this issue when I'm awake as well, in planes mostly but it's related to how tired I feel. If I'm tired and I fall asleep but something wakes me up, after that I just cannot control my legs anymore. It gets wild. And it's worse when is someone in bed with me, especially because the other person usually keeps waking me up when he moves. So it's mostly related to my brain being tired and unable to rest. Same goes for the airplanes when I have long flights, I feel tired and sleepy but I cannot rest. :(

PS: I have this every single night since I remember (from childhood), I'm not northern or western European and I don't have iron deficiency (actually..my iron levels are over the board quite a lot), I don't take any types of medication, I don't have other health conditions, I don't smoke or drink alcohol :(

Julie Owen

2y↑1

Wow, so sorry it's absolutely a horrible condition...

Kat k

3y↑4

I promise you... you will know 100% if you have restless leg syndrome, no need to wonder if you've experienced it. It makes for absolutely hellish nights causing awful sleep deprivation. I am chronically hypokalemic, hypomagnesemia, and hyponatremia, per decades of bloodtests, and heavy supplementation of these electrolytes usually helps, but not always. Interesting about the iron. I'm often low in folate. I wonder how that might affect restless legs.

Kajsa Pinnerup

3y↑2

Yes,low in B9 does affect your rls.

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Virginia McClure

2y↑1

I get restless leg frequently, usually associated with squirming with gas, need for BM or urination without sensing the need or urge. It resolves, sometimes after several hours of squirming, after a BM. Magnesium supplements help w regularity.

Sam Izdat

For me it is a tickle deep in my calf muscles and just above my knees. It feels like my legs want to get up and run around the block.

gareth williams

12+yrs n counting, my relief is a fan on full speed. Got it after 2 fusions on my foot. Feels like my ankle is going to break, 20+ day's with about 12ish hours of actual sleep

Anaconda eunectes

It hits me the worst during dialysis. I've had to cut a few sessions short because of it. It's pure torture!

B

2y↑8

It feels like nerves being fired over and over to move… Tingles. IMO it is painful. I guess the best thing I can compare it to is imagine a light shocking that just makes your muscle spasm.. over and over and over again in your legs. Yeah we control the movement but it’s to alleviate the nerve shock signals basically is what it feels like.

Carmen Palenske

This is the best description for how my restless legs feel.

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Anna Ha

3y↑6

I have a different theory about rls.
I have experienced it after heavy leg workout due to muscle tightness. During pregnancy as the weight shifts legs get tight as well to keep the body / pelvis balanced. Tight leg & glute muscles = rls. My solution to this is deep whole leg massage, including claves and front of lower legs, quads, harmstrings, glutes and above glutes.
It makes sense that stress & anxiety can trigger it because when we are stressed or anxious we tighten up.

Ruth Loewen

3y↑2

I have that too, and this video finally clarified for me that it is not RLS. I suspected that for many years, but couldn't find any mention anywhere of the kind of cramping I have, so finally thought it must be RLS. Now I know it is a whole different problem -- in the muscle, as he says, not in the brain like RLS. So now I need to find info on this type of cramping.

dollie horaney

He addresses that as muscle cramping

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Joyce Sudlow

3y↑74

My rls is my legs start kicking while I’m relaxing into sleep I end up crying on knees n elbows trying to sleep is exhausting even when on ropirole I still get it I try stretching hamstrings or lying on stomach at least you can’t kick much on your stomach and almost impossible to fall asleep it steals your sleep quality beyond belief.

Joyce Sudlow

@donatus Collins merci no parlez vous francai?!

Kathy Breen

I too just started ropinirole but still need my sinemet for legs. But ropinirole puts me to sleep with sinemet.

Alan Judd

@Thomas Smith Are You Shore about that Tom ?,,,

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Ashley J

2y↑5

I’m experiencing this in my final trimester of pregnancy, I think. Getting my legs rubbed seems to be the best remedy.

Sally Shipwreck

@T H Search YT for: Restless Legs Syndrome Relief (RLS) - Ask Doctor Jo. Series of exercises - also use of roller bar: like a rolling pin with knobs. I had one and felt so desperate I tried it - sort of short circuits things.

T H

I massage my wife's legs with oil and it seems to help. but what helps even more if i help her stretch her legs while she is laying on her back

Yasmine

3y↑42

it’s actually so painful, my triggers are moving my ankle around. it’s from my ankle to my calf sometimes it reaches my wrist and arms. it is painful for me to the point where i’m crying at 4 am. I can’t not move them just because i’m so desperate to relieve the pain

317 stitches

3y↑3

@Big Bank I rock my legs and push my feet against the bottom of my bed frame. I can’t take it ! I just want to break down and cry!

Lord Muneer

3y↑2

@Big Bank do you found any cure.... I'm in pain right now... Please please please help me... Please.. ekekeksksieydidiww

Big Bank

3y↑4

@beckyngreene its so painful I stay busy the whole entire day.and the second I go to sleep and get comfortable BAM!!!RLS shoots up my thigh to my hamstrings ankles calves and knee it irritates tingles feels like a million needles in my legs and my legs cannot stop moving at times just to get some comfort I rock my legs or feet/ankle back and forth.smh

beckyngreene

3y↑4

I'm so sorry. I'm getting a taste of this RLS. Its not fun.

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Carmen Palenske

2y↑2

Anyone who has been kept up at night for 4 to 6 hours with restless leg, has had the time and motivation to try out multitudes of remedies. This guy basically has one suggestion. He needs to be more helpful than that. Enough to make someone cry with hopelessness in the middle of the night.
Really hot herbal tea, compression leggings, walking, heating pad, vibrating tools, Magnesium in multiple forms, restless leg pills from the drug store are the basic ones that have worked at various times for me.

Contemplating Cat

2y↑1

When I was about 3 years old, I was sleeping with my mom in her bed one night. I remember her shaking her feet and leg back and forth. I asked her why she kept moving or something like that. She explained to me that shaking 1 or both feet back and forth helped her to fall asleep. I then started copying her at the age of 3 that very night. I'm 33 now. I don't like to sway my feet at night to help sleep because it keeps me awake. I have epilepsy and one of my major triggers (if not the only one really) is lack of sleep. I have very bad insomnia. Sometimes at night I get an urge to move my legs. I cannot fall asleep on my back because I'm afraid of having a seizure in my sleep and choking. So I pretty much have to sleep on my side. I end up turning back and forth every 10-60 minutes or so, trying to get comfortable. After a while my leg and hip areas begin to hurt. It's causing me to stay in bed for up to 12 hours with only getting about 4 hours of sleep that is so broken up that I believe it is causing mental health issues. This all started because I was mimicking something my mom did, and I'm wondering if we teach ourselves these things some way or another and then it becomes a physical problem; mind/matter=reality kind of thing. Nothing seems to help me either. I have tried SO many herbal remedies, I have tried drugs, I have tried alcohol, I have tried hot baths, I have tried all kinds of things and it doesn't seem to help. Even if I do fall asleep, 4 hours later I wake up before the sun comes up and toss and turn another few hours or so. It's really driving me insane and I do not have money, a job, or disability status. I don't know what to do anymore.

dolores inkenbrandt and dawn coppens

3y↑3

Greetings from sunny SW Florida. I have had restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbom disease since birth. Dr Hanson (RIP) finally found a regime of meds to assist me. It is very painful and happens more during stress. Thanks for this. Much appreciated. Blessings to all

dolores inkenbrandt and dawn coppens

@Inese Vitola ropinirole and pramipexole

Inese Vitola

2y↑1

What medication and regime do you use. I am from New Zealand and I tried lots of meds- nothing really works

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Joseph Cosby

It was a miracle pill for me. The first morning after taking it I wept like a baby because I slept all that night I woke up in the same place now I’m having to double my dose a lot

Rock Solid Health

This has been so useful and the best thing I’ve watched on RSL thank you

Tia Yang

Dr. Berkowski, thank you for describing airlines as torture chambers for people with RLS! This is the very first doctor who is able to explain RLS in detail. I've suffered with RLS for 30+ years. My primary doctor just brushed it away when I mentioned it. I'm being told that physical activity relieves RLS but that has not been the case for me; it makes sense now! According to Dr. Berkowski there's a "sweet spot" for activity levels depending on each individual. My activity has been too intense so I have to find that sweet spot. Thanks so much for this video.

Lisa Jackson

I had cupping done on the back of my legs and it really helped. That was 2 years ago and it’s recently started coming back

Janet Schwartz

The sensation of the extremes of this condition is almost like a nerve trapped on your spine.

Carolyn Woolman

3y↑2

Great explanation. It makes you crazy but you described it as well as it is so hard to describe. Makes you crazy to have need to move legs and you are unable to stop it. Really plays big part in sleep. You just have to move your legs.

Blighted

My grandma and great-grandma had it, but they didn't know what it was. They just called it "jumping legs". It skipped my mom, but I got it. It feels like a constant buzzing in my arms and legs. I also had really painful growing pains in my legs as a kid, and they say that it's related. Iron, magnesium, and a low dose of gabapentin make it tolerable.

Lorraine Clarke

I recently had 4 different blood tests done. One of them was for anaemia. All 4 blood test are fine. Currently taking Gabapentin not for restless legs but pain for my calf. I have lowered the dose and now I'm gonna updose again. Hopefully it will help. If not back to my GP.

Terri G B

I have bilateral footdrop & other conditions like peripheral neuropathy so I went on Gabapentin 100mg in the morning but I’m up to 4 x 300mg per 24 hours, it really helps but I did 5 days on Lyrica & had to stop as I had a psychotropic break, I was told I can increase it up to 4200mg per day but it is an Epilepsy drug that stops the brain receiving the nerve pain trigger so I wonder what lays ahead as I’m not big one walking as I’m a high falls risk. 8 years 9 months, it does not get any better, you just increase the medication. Good luck everyone. Oh iron - the only thing it did was make my bowel produce as get black but no help at all. Massage does not help my. I understand how people want them amputated as the pain & discomfort never stops, it is 24/7.

Tayong Gweshe

3y↑1

I felt it in my legs it normally eases a bit when I take a bath the min it's hurting tt really helps to easy the tickling

b(aka)sso

I get this just before my periods starts. Sometimes I've cramped my calf muscles in sleep because I'm subconscious trying to stretch my muscles like how you would when you get up after sitting for a while. The cramps are super painful and that's what wakes me up .

Blighted

2y↑1

It happens to me right before my period, too! I think it could be related to hormonal fluctuations.

violet moon

3y↑2

I've felt RLS for many years - I'm 26. I am on anti-depressants but I've had it long before this medication. for me it gets worse the later at night it gets, usually past midnight. alcohol does make it worse. they hit the point on how hard it is to travel on a bus or plane. the only home remedy that that I've found barely noticeable is elevating my legs for a bit. I feel RLS about every night, but im just so used to just moving my legs if i need to. very informative video though thank you!

Payton Pollard

3y↑1

@Mariusz Bryla very informative thanks...the magnesium seems to be helping me to 🙏

Payton Pollard

@violet moon thank you so much .. I'll keep you posted

violet moon

3y↑1

@Payton Pollard talk to your primary care doctor about the depression if its becoming a serious concern. Even if you see a therapist or psychologist first, they will most likely point you towards your primary care doctor to write the prescription if needed. Since making this post I have talked to a doctor about my restless legs. i have started taking 'vitron c - iron plus vitamin c' tablets. its an over the counter vitamin. and that has helped quite a bit. good luck !

Payton Pollard

Hi ...how are you feeling now? I'm 27 and I'm feeling so depressed... having on and off anxiety attacks and the crawling in my leg won't stop

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Dossdoesit2 with Maria

Everything the doctor explained us ehat I go through everyday. I also suffer with restless arms. I remember having it a kid my mom also suffered from it. Two of my brothers suffer from it too. Im not sure if it's everyday like me. Sometimes I could cry sometimes I do.

doacarnage

It kinda feels like you need to pee, an irritating tingling from my toes all the way up to mid torso. It’s most pronounced in my crotch area. I can be exhausted but cannot sleep. Eventually it subsides and I can rest

J. A.

It's so interesting in a car, as he said, if you're the one driving it usually doesn't happen. But if you're a passenger it can happen. That's exactly how it is for me.

Catherine Kitty Kat

Thank you for an excellent talk. I suffer horribly. The only thing that has worked and works fast is the RLS MED that starts with a P. I'm too exhausted to get up and get bottle. It's 5am and zero sleep. I'm researching out of desperation and so glad to come across this video. The med that works brand name MIRAPEX causes severe stomach upset. It's amazing to feel my body get still and go to sleep...but can't take cause will be in crisis all day and night with tummy. Such the nightmare. So tired...sigh. thank you!

Nicholas Espinoza

Great explanation thank u its been yrs since my restless leg acted up your absolutely right its a n nuero symptom never would have thaught

Bangtan Girl

It’s like a reflex. My legs move suddenly and I can’t sit or lay down, I have to stand up and it’s horrible at night or during a journey (car, plane…)

Sugar High 1111

3y↑6

The way I describe it is, when your leg falls asleep.. you have that intense tingle feeling when you move it or touch it? So, not that tingle feeling, but the unbearable sensation that the tingle causes. Like if you keep the leg that's asleep still, not moving it so the tingle doesn't happen, it's the building sensation that you feel. Or when someone is scratching your back, and they just keep scratching in the same spot and it starts to feel really aggitating and makes you squirm.. that feeling, just more intense. And when having an episode, the periods in between the need to move constantly, you just cannot get confortable... like you just walked 10 miles, and you just want to sit, but when you do, it doesnt feel good, it just makes it more apparent.

Sugar High 1111

@Mariusz Bryla Magnesium definitely helps, but like you said, not all supplements help. I've never tried the powder, so I'll pick some up! I recently learned that Iron deficiency can be a cause, so supplements can help. I took one slow release iron and it did help alot. I think I'll just take like 1 a week and try to incorperate more iron rich stuff into my diet.. but It did help when I had my most recent episode.

Sarah Knight

3y↑2

I describe it like this exactly. It also kind of feels like hitting your “funny bone” or like someone is tickling the inside of your leg.

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dan schriver

I don't get violet kicks or anything like that. I just feels like very excessive pins and needles throughout my legs and the only way to slightly get it to calm down is to lay on my stomach and lift one of my knees like I'm climbing a mountain.

Brandon

3y↑1

I’ve had this since I was a kid and never was addressed now it’s so severe. I have many side affects of parasomnias feeling is not just legs but arms hair pulling tik bad daydreaming constantly tired hard time remembering. Intense lucid daydreaming. I don’t have a hard time going to bed because I’m so tired I instantly pass out every morning is intense sleep inertia and confusional arousal

Mariusz Bryla

Hey Brandon, take Magnesium plus Calcium in powder form from the brand name "CALM". Body needs Calcium in order to assimilate Magnesium. And the Magnesium must be in liquid form and organic (natural). I buy the one from CALM brand name. If you try it, let me know if it helped. This one did help me, I suffered 20 or more years. Frequency increased to every night. Unbearable!
All the Best to You Brandon

Love2learn Mitchell

3y↑5

I am post menopausal and have restless leg syndrome, as well as neuropathy. It seems to lessen when I use vitamin B1, potassium and magnesium.

Michelle

Yes I am amazed how much it’s helping after only 3 days 💜

katwil89

3y↑6

I have been trying to get off of Ambien, which I have used for years. I switched to otc sleep medicine and I have recently been suffering from restless legs. Now I know why. Thank you! This is an easy fix.

katwil89

@Lynn C Ambien does calm the legs down. My doctor just won’t let me have it anymore. :(

Lynn C

I have the same issue. I started taking Doxylamine it caused my legs to be painful and restless. I went back to ambien.

J. A.

3y↑2

What a great doctor. Wish others were more concerned about long term effects of drugs.

Barbara E-B

Unfortunately, I have been on drugs for most of my life, due to being born 2.5 months early and suffering from various issues because of it. Have also had concussions which adds to the mild CP and other things. I was born with some brain injury and all of this has effects on my life.

alan perry

2y↑1

one thing is true about RLS is movement helps, most times. but i have it so bad that there are times where not even moving helps.

Mary Ellen Richardson

I have said mine feel like Shingles but on the inside. Sometimes if I lie on my back with a pillow under my knees I can fall to sleep, but sleeping on my back often gives me headaches.

V Brewer

3y↑3

I have had RLS almost all of my adult life (senior now), have been taking Ropinirole for about 2 years, really helped me, but I do find I need to take more of it, get my meds adjusted every 8 months or so. I take 1 mg now, but going up to 1.5 mg, Will have to ask my Dr about those other meds that were first line when I see him again.

Renae Jones

I've taken 2mg at nite for many yrs.

James Smith

Hello. I was just wondering if it is possible to recover from restless leg syndrome? Like for some people does it go away?

Cris Baiiar

3y↑1

I legit been thinking all along I was having an anxiety attack! But I’m pretty sure is this!!!

John Harper

3y↑2

Thank you so much Andy and Ms Sweety for the latest update on one of the worst under rated night time diseases...I have a Crazy terrible life with my severe RLS painful suffering. Try some kratom( red bali powder etc.) will help for a few hours but even my tramadol is hardly helping but helped much 1st 7 yrs , think I'll try some Now L-dopa and some easy digestible iron. Weighted blanket help a tiny weeny bit. Requip & others is terrible because of it's augmentation. Leg machine helps a tiny weeny bit. Sleeping with a leg messager helps too. Please, if you have severe RLS and have tried something that worked please let us know...thx. john

Sharon Benn

I THOUGHT RED KRATOM QAS THE ANSWER. BUT, IT MADE IT WORSE AND I WORRY ABOUT LIVER DAMAGE. TRYING TO SLOW DOWN AND GET OFF OF IT. PLEASE BE CAREFIL WITH THE RED KRATOM.

Barbara E-B

3y↑12

My legs just jerk very hard and quickly. During my sleep studies I found out that I have 3 sleep disorders. Onset insomnia, only stages 1&2 sleep levels. My RSL would jerk or kick at least 50 times a hour. Because I only light sleep, I would be woken each time my legs moved. I have it even while awake and still.
My father also had it. He was able to use vitamin E to treat it. I take Imovane for my sleep disorders. Clonazepam is helpful for calming the jerking of my legs.

Barbara E-B

2y↑2

I have asked my doctor to let me come off it because I also take gabapentin for neurological pain but she said no. I am trying to lower my pain meds since I have chronic pain but since they also help RLS maybe I should stick with them. I feel that I take too much medication.

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dollie horaney

3y↑15

I put an absorbine jr (menthol pain relief) patch on my back just above my tailbone and I get almost instant relief.

Chizoba Uchay

3y↑1

@Shannon Lucille so did the patch work?

Shannon Lucille

3y↑2

i am.going to try this.

i find that when i am in a car or a plane and must remain confined, if i wiggle my lower back, the urge to move my legs subsides for as long as i am moving my back

Charleen Cnossen

2y↑1

For me…I “HAVE” to get up when sitting, like when watching a movie. I say, “I need to run around the house!” or I “HAVE” to rock when going to sleep because I CANNOT just lay there still or unaware, I often thump my leg/foot on the bed while sleeping - until my hubby wakes me up! Poor guy! I dread being elderly and confined to a bed and can’t move! This was excellent information for me! My blood iron is 40. Very low. I’ve been working on it. Now I know for sure I needed iron supplements!

🦋AriesSweety🦋

3y↑5

God it's so uncomfortable! I get it in my legs and arms. Might be just one leg or one arm or one leg and an arm, or any variation of the limbs with me. One time I swear i felt it in my neck.

John Citizen

I heard some people use a T.E.N.S machine and it helps. I also heard of others using a vibrating machine to massage the muscles, which they say it helps. I personally been taking 1g just before bed of taurine in water, which is tasteless. It has a mild effect.

Wendy Keown

3y↑2

my RLS is all over my body. It happens during the day when im driving my Transit Bus and at night when i am tired. Had it all my adult life worsening with age...every day and night. Flying is a nightmare for me. I have never been able to take sleep aids.

Barbara Gray

One of best videos on restless legs,I've been like this since I was 40 yr,,I'm 76 now,,I walk at night & kick.... thank you...would taking Biotin cause RSL?

Jacquetta Andersen

3y↑1

I had it in my legs at first then it spreaded to my stomach I wake up out of a dead sleep feeling like I have to my move It wasn’t really that bad but as days go on it gets worse and worse I get no sleep now, I need help what do you guys do for it to go away ?

Jeff Marshburn

Me, all of my nine aunts my father and my Grandmother and most of my cousins all suffer and suffered from this horrible thing. When I am experiencing this it sometimes makes me want to cut off my arms and legs. I do not drink alcohol anymore but when I did I did not feel rls.

Pine Three

2y↑1

It’s bad
It also makes my feet very sensitive to touch. To anything.
When it’s happening if anything touches my foot, my leg immediately jerks back or away. That can include blankets or socks to.
It’s like if you went to touch someone’s foot that’s super ticklish and they jerk it away. Same scenario really.