Re: RLS: when legs move YOU!

January 12, 1999

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm - i hadn't heard about the rls/plmd difference quite

explained this way......are you saying that at night when in bed and

sleeping that the leg movements are involuntary and thus plmd but when

awake the leg movements are voluntary since its possible (but unlikely)

that we can control and surpress the movements and therefore rls -

????????????????

JACK

dazed and confused in snowy western nys

At 09:49 AM 1/12/99 -0700, you wrote:

>

>June...

>When your legs move on their own...that's another whole ball game.

>With strictly RLS, you have VOLUNTARY leg movements. Granted, you would go

>freaking nuts if you didn't move your legs, but the movement is something

>you do on purpose. My understanding (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm

>wrong *smile* ) is that when the legs move YOU, it's another problem, like

>PLMD (Periodic Leg Movement Disorder). I don't profess to have a clue of

>how to respond to that one.

>

>Hang in there, with me, June. You and I always come around to an

>understanding, sooner or later.

>Has your Thumper arrived?

>Jill

>

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January 13, 1999

June and Jill,

I'm just like June -- if I do not move my legs, they move on their own. Such

as when I am trying, trying so hard to concentrate on something and determined

not to move my legs, they jerk anyway. Sometimes I wonder if I caused the

movement or if it was completely involuntary. I know that I have involuntary

jerks when I am asleep, but sometimes when I am awake it's hard to tell the

difference. Make sense, Jill??? Generally, I have some amount of success

with concentration in keeping an RLS attack from starting, but none whatsoever

after it has started. My legs are going to jerk whether I move on purpose or

not!!

Blessings, Charlene/48/Nashville

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