what is it ?

[Guest guest]

To Dr. Levin and / or anyone in the group who can help me with this, I

know this should probably not be of great concern to me, but it prompted

me to think about it when Dr. Levin said " the abnormalities of RLS are

felt to be in the spinal cord and or the brain " . I wish I knew

what the " abnormallities " were, so that I could in some way explain this

to other people. I've had this for most of my 51 years and still feel

" like a

freak " when my body starts thrashing around and all I have for an

explanation is that I have restless legs. THAT is no definition. I

always feel like like I'm trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill,

and worse, I feel like that's what other people think I'm doing. I KNOW,

I KNOW,

don't worry about what other people think. i'd just like to be taken

seriously though. We all know that there is no way to describe the

torture that we go through, but i would just like to be able to say -

This is a disease of " whatever " or this happens because ? . I know this

is really a dumb question altogether, because as far as I know we don't

know any of these answers, but Dr. Levin, if you (or anyone else) have

any answers for me I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Ninette, 51, TN