[united1000]

I have fought this off and on since I was a kid. Yes, as a teenager I even had it. As I got older I fight it a lot more often. It is absolutely awful to go to bed so tired and you can't lay still. It is also very hard to try and describe the feeling to those who have never had it before. You want to scream. I've watched many movies in the middle of the night because of it.

[IdahoNative]

Cooling the legs/feet helps - the colder the better. I love North Idaho winters because when the restless legs starts in, a barefoot stroll around the cold cement floor in the unheated garage for a couple of minutes usually takes care of it and then I can go back to bed and actually lay still long enough to get some sleep.

[Marie]

I know exactly how you feel. The sensation isn't exactly pain, but it will drive you to cut off limbs. After five or six nights in a row, I'm ready to shoot myself. (I take a lot of sleeping pills. I've got a cocktail that would probably kill a lesser mortal that sometimes gets me to sleep. That, and I tape a LOT of TV for those all-nighters for when even the cocktail doesn't work.)