Hamstrings or Ligaments

[Guest guest]

Jill, Connie and all who commented,

First, UPS has finally picked up that package. Now I have 7-9 working days

to wait for my Thumper Minipro2 and I can't wait.

Jill, yours should be arriving any day now. Be sure to let me (us) know

how it feels if you can stay away from it long enough to type another

letter. And I want DETAILS!!!!.

Connie, my sides are still hurting from laughing at the Mad Snow Shoveler

and the President's collection. Where in the world do you get these jokes?

Thanks for all the pros & cons about the mental aspect and the different

kinds of RLS. Mine is the inherited kind, and I've discovered recently

that it's from my fathers side of the family. My brother has it, two of

his children, and three of their children. Three of my four daughters have

it, and three (so far) of their children have it.

Yes Jill, I do remember you mentioning about the muscles involved in rls.

Do any of you remember me asking you to sit with legs out straight, and

push your head down with your hands (chin pressed to chest) , between your

legs. Push your head as far down until the ligaments, Hamstrings ( whatever

they are) are pulling and hurting. You can feel them pulling from the back

of your neck all the way through your back and down the back of the legs,

behind your knees, on down to your feet. Well these (strings or whatever)

hurt when they are tight. Now magnify that ten times. I don't know if

they are connected to my rls in any way or not, but sometimes they are

tight like this (without the demonstration). I told you how I had to hold

my husband around the waist and how he had to drag me to the bathroom,

because I couldn't use my legs, the ligaments were soo tight. The only

thing I could do to loosen these strings was to lift my legs up over my

head and straighten them out as much as possible, (hurts like all get out)

but it stretches and loosens them. I went to a doctor for this and he gave

me almost the same exercises to loosen them that I was doing anyway. I

didn't mention the RLS to him, because I didn't know if it had anything to

do with it, and besides every doctor I did mention it to at that time just

wouldn't answer me. This doesn't happen often, thank God, because it will

make you cry.

By the way Jill, I got an email today from a lady with RLS that saw the

letter I wrote in to the Senior Site over a year ago, the same one you saw

(didn't know it was still there) She recognized my symptoms, I told her

about this support group, so I'm hoping she will connect with us. I told

her how friendly and helpful everyone is. Her name is . I don't think

we have a in our group.

Well, enough said for now, Lots of love.

June 64, Delaware

[Guest guest]

June, thanks for writing about the ligaments. I too have inherited RLS,

though I wonder if a back injury when I was 25 may have aggravated

things. My hamstrings tighten up exactly as you describe, though it

sounds like yours are more painful and debilitating than mine. There is

also a muscle or ligament in my outer thighs and one in my feet that

tighten up. Amazingly, the Tension Tamer tea that JIll and others

recommended really works for me. I drink it and my legs relax. Thank God,

the only other thing that ever worked was Sinemet, and I got the rebound

effect from that.

Kate, Minnesota-USA, 41 yrs.

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