Interesting. I’ve never heard RLS or PLMD described this way, only that it feels like pins and needles or as if you have too much feeling or ‘energy’ in legs/arms, in which case you are forced to move or have uncontrolled movement. Do you have that too at times or just the numbness?
My legs will go numb when I walk for more than 15 minutes, but I’m told it’s an entirely different issue, perhaps spinal/poor circulation?
Yes, sometimes they tingle, then burn. It may be a spinal/poor circulation deal - mine go numb while walking too - mainly my thighs though. I just try to get through it and don’t worry about it much.
HOWEVER.... now this may sound absolutely crazy - but when the rls commercial comes on tv, I have to either change the channel or leave the room - it makes me think about it too much to where I think it is coming on when it isn’t.
This sounds like a miserable disorder to have. I don’t know anyone who has this or at least I haven’t heard anyone say that they do. If it were not for the ads on TV for Requip I would never have heard of this.
As we age we all will develop something. In the last 2 years I have been allergic to every prescription drug that has been prescribed for me. Add that to the previous ones that I already knew about and the list is long. I figure that I will probably die from something simple and preventable because I can’t take anything that would cure it.
I certainly hope that something comes along to cure your RLS.