Re: Mild/Severe/Itch/Newspaper article 25 years ago. ;)

February 26, 1999

June wrote:

" Sometimes I wonder if what some of us suffer is really RLS, because

what I have can't be distracted by the amount of attention I give it. "

*****

MILD/SEVERE

'I think':

There are just mild forms and those not so mild and then the really

severe ones. I just know that when my legs are really bothering me, I

can't sit still for a second. There is no way I could distract myself by

'concentrating' on anything. Whether it is the computer, a movie or

ANYTHING! (Standing (sometimes walking in place) in a REALLY hot shower

with the water hitting on my back and running down my legs is the only

thing that seems to help.) The RLS attack somehow effects the chemicals

in my brain and puts me in a 'nervous frenzy'. I can't concentrate.

ITCH

It also effects the nerve endings on my skin. Sometimes this is in the

form of an intense itch that only VERY hard scratching will help. This

usually happens right before a bad attack. There is not ANY product on

the market that will relieve this. This is an 'itch from within'. Other

times the skin feels like I'm wearing a shirt made out of horses hair.

(the tail!) These folks with the 'mild' forms don't have the slightest

clue what 'mine' is really like.

I'm just grateful I didn't see the suggested solutions by people with

mild cases when I first joined this group. I would have thought I was

in the wrong place for sure!

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

I am just VERY GRATEFUL for the medical profession FINALLY recognizing

this ailment! I first read about it in a newspaper column in the

1960's. The syndicated doctor " Dr. Lamb " wrote about it and described

it and called it Restless Leg Syndrome. I spent the next 25 years trying

to 'tell' doctors what I had and what it was called. (Got nowhere with

that!!)

That's all! Sorry it is so long.

Anne Nevil from Georgia

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