Guest guest Posted March 28, 1999 Report Share Posted March 28, 1999 Jeanne, This is SO interesting! You've hit on something here for me. When I was about 5, I had chicken pox and measles at the same time. My only memory of it is lying on the couch with my back turned to the tv because the fear then was measles and tv were a bad combination - could cause blindness, if I am remembering correctly. My mother has told me that I was a very sick child. I don't know in relation to that illness when my rls started - but my earliest memories of my legs are of them hurting and aching and waking up my mother for HELP. So it seems like my legs have always done this. Also, in 1982, I developed a serious eye syndrome which to this day I am still treated for and it nearly blinded me. I have never connected my eye problems to the chicken pox/measles. Could be.....nor the rls...could be there,too..... Lynn Ga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 1999 Report Share Posted March 28, 1999 Jeanne, This is SO interesting! You've hit on something here for me. When I was about 5, I had chicken pox and measles at the same time. My only memory of it is lying on the couch with my back turned to the tv because the fear then was measles and tv were a bad combination - could cause blindness, if I am remembering correctly. My mother has told me that I was a very sick child. I don't know in relation to that illness when my rls started - but my earliest memories of my legs are of them hurting and aching and waking up my mother for HELP. So it seems like my legs have always done this. Also, in 1982, I developed a serious eye syndrome which to this day I am still treated for and it nearly blinded me. I have never connected my eye problems to the chicken pox/measles. Could be.....nor the rls...could be there,too..... Lynn Ga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 1999 Report Share Posted March 29, 1999 My 1 cent: Most children get chickenpocks, the people who get shingles ( I had to look that up, only knew it as Herpes Zoster )get it when their immune is low, like people with hiv virus, after another disease, after antibiotics , older people when their chicken pocks antibodies wear off. I had c.p. never shingles, but boy, do I have rls from childhood...Marleen P.S. Today I got a grandson, he is the most handsome boy I ever laid eyes on, exept for his father, who is my son, and Jasper ( the baby) looks like a clone (?) of his dad, so much alike,I am confused all day, brings back memories...M Jeanne Robbins wrote: > All the thoughts that have lately appeared about inherited RLS, > trauma induced RLS, trauma stopping RLS etc has set me to thinking > (and that can be a dangerous though sometimes hysterical > experience). For instance I, like millions of other children, suffered > through the chicken pox when I was about 6 years old. Later, when I > was about 11 I came down with a bad case of shingles (MAN, was that > ever painful). I know that the virus that causes chicken pox also > causes shingles since the virus never leaves the body but remains > dormant (they think it is probably in the roots of nerves near the > spinal cord). Get that, near the spinal cord??? Now I wonder if that > same blasted virus, lurking in the roots of the nerves could have > anything to do with our suffering with > RLS........................ After all, just about everyone has had > chicken pox so has that virus in their bodies. Can it be that most > people have systems that suppress the virus enough so that it can't > cause anymore trouble? Not everyone gets shingles and not everyone > gets RLS. Maybe I'm just " blowing in the wind " . Cheers!! Jeanne and > Mr. Biggles in Poultney VT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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