Posted on 02/16/2011 9:59:09 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
(Washington, DC) Medical authorities have failed to explain why MSNBC’s Chris Matthews’s leg hasn’t stopped tingling since the evening hours of February 13 during an acceptance speech given by Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
Matthews first reported his condition in an on-air exchange with Keith Olberman about an hour after Obama swept the so-called Potomac primaries in Virginia, Maryland and DC.
According to MSNBC transcripts: “I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.”
matthews-leg-with-electrodes.JPGNBC anchor Brian Williams later joked with Olberman about Matthews’s comment, but it turns out his condition was no joking matter. In fact, Matthews has undergone a battery of tests at John Hopkins University Medical Center in Maryland in an attempt to diagnose what doctors have termed a continuous spasmodic tingle. The condition seems to accelerate with each Obama win.
Although doctors have no conclusive medical explanation, they do note a slight constriction in Matthews’s femoral artery.
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Chrissy needs a catheter.
Sorry to see the Restless Legs Syndrome (nocturnal myoclunus) used as a joke in the title. I have it so severely that it has become disabling and destroyed most of my life. I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
Have you tried melatonin supplements?
They help me get sleep.
A friend of mine suffers from this, as well. I don’t know the name of the medication he takes, but it has been a great relief for him.
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