This! ☹️

I will attest on behalf of my wife.

Turn signals seem to be against the law in WNC.

Only those who lack a brain would believe in such fantasies...

Autoimmune sufferer, I completely feel this. OP is absolutely right - there are days you simply. Can. Not. Function. and "mood" and "attitude" have NOTHING to do with what is physically happening, and yet people... and that's all I'm going to say. People.

even while they're fighting your care.

Because cats are magical creatures worthy of worship. But seriously their purr is at s vibration believed to have calming properties, this is why a cat in pain or under stress will sometimes purr.

My husband has had this and been medicated for it for ten years. He felt like a drug addict when begging the neurologist on multiple occasions to give him enough medicine to be able to control it. His GP refused to change his meds for several years stating that other people have it worse than him and he shouldn't complain about only sleeping two or three hours a night. I myself didn't fully appreciate what he went through until.... I started to develop restless legs too. I'm in those early days where it's sporadic. It seems to get worse with time.

I tried explaining to my doctor what it felt like, and the best I could come up with is this: My body is relaxed on the couch, but my legs are trying to take me out for a marathon run...

I had it for 12 years. Started taking potassium supplement for another reason and 3 days later restless legs were fine. Only comes back if I forget my supplements for more than 3 days.

Cos kitty kat is magical :)

I found that putting your feet under cold running water helps a lot. I've read it somewhere and when I tried it & it worked, I almost cried with relief. I completely agree -- RLS is absolutely maddening.

Yeah it's really no joke, at its worst I used to lie in bed punching my legs over and over again until the sensation stopped. At one point I took a meat tenderiser to them. I went through a period of life where my thighs were constantly bruised black and blue because the only thing that stopped the sensation was just pummelling them into submission. It's really awful.

I occasionally have RLS. It's impossible to get to sleep until it subsides. Sure wish I knew what I could do to prevent it in the first place. Sure would LOVE to have a kitty to purr for me. I used to have one. I always slept better when she was right there next to me, just below my pillow. Was almost like a child being comforted by a teddy bear, right next to them.

Really! I thought that restless leg syndrome was that your legs ached or were in pain when not moving; and this sounds like what I thought Tourette’s was. Interesting. I learned something new today.

It's the love that does it.

It's because your brain registers the activity and 'forgets' to make you move your legs because it is distracted. My uncle has the same problem and has a rubics cube on his bedside table. My aunt says she would rather hear the clicking in the night than have a foot up her jacksy

After many years I am slowly starting to grow out of it. It is infuriating and impossible to describe. I can feel every nerve in my leg screaming ate to move it. And I kick hubby in his sleep:(

Biorhythm magic.

My mom has this and suffers a lot from it.

RLS sucks

It's the lack of sleep that gets me. Auditory and visual hallucinations are a very real thing.

Sometimes my restless legs get so bad that it involves my entire body, my arms, everything. My doctor said I was on the lowest dose of Requip so she increased my dosage and so far it’s controlling it for now, that is until it needs to be increased again because the body tremors are coming back.

I have PLMD (Periodic Limb Movement Disorder) which is like RLS on steroids. Not only in the legs, but the arms and torso as well. It is an absolute nightmare. Took years to find a doctor that was a specialist and could finally provide relief. That relief? Methadone. Every night. But for almost 10 years now, most nights are decent.

I have this (apparently it's fairly common in ND people). It's horrid. A weighted blanket does help me but it might not work for everyone.

I don't even know I'm doing it..

Mine has been so bad in the last couple of weeks that I’ve been close to tears. The other night I was so tired I couldn’t keep my open, which should be great when you’re trying to sleep, but every time my eyes would close my arms and legs would spasm, and I had this awful tingling, crawling sensation in my legs, arms and neck. I finally essentially passed out from tiredness at five in the morning. F*ck RLS!

My late husband struggled with RLS his entire adult life. It drove him bonkers, and often, it did me too!

Yep. I can't travel; unless I could afford a hotel room on the plane.

I have RLS as well. It drives me nuts. I get up and walk around and sit on the side of the tub with warm/hot water running over my legs. It seems to help. MY cat leaves the bed due to me moving around too much. I need to borrow your kitty.

I had it two times as a side effect of medication for maybe half an hour ..it was already nerve-wracking.

RLS makes it hard to sleep. Lack of sleep makes RLS worse.

I had this for a couple of months. Can that be- does anybody have an explanation for me?

distraction most likely. i dont have RLS but i am a very fidgety person, my leg constantly shakes when i sit (even when driving sometimes) but at night my cat sleeps next to me too, and petting him helps.

My guess (just a guess) regarding the cat is it has something to do with distracting the brain. Hiccups are also involuntary and many of the various remedies that some people swear by boil down to doing something that causes the brain to focus elsewhere. Works a little bit for certain other body functions / actions. Like when a grandkid has to go pee "right now!" but their sibling is in the toilet so they are whining about how bad they have to go. Then a Disney movie or something else they like comes on screen and ten minutes later there are staring at it, their sibling is out of the bathroom and you have to remind them that they have to go pee. "Oh yeah!" lol

OMG, I have this, and it drives me crazy at times. Only solution is to sit on the kitchen counter and swing my legs like a child in a tall chair for about an hour.

This. I have it and it is horrible. I take medication that helps a little, but the side effects are almost as bad.

Anyone who STILL believes vaccines cause autism should be sterilized

❌ The wages are stagnant even though corporations report record profits. ✅ The wages are stagnant BECAUSE corporations report record profits.

And then people say "You're just lazy, try harder."

Ignored by successive governments worldwide, actions substituted by lipservice, sorry kids you inherit a burnt out husk

I first read it like, 🧅 are good for workers...🤦🏽‍♂️

Another thing is that people act like it’s so easy to just stop seeking validation or worrying about what others think of you. It’s. Not. F*****g. Easy

I like this :) it’s like - if we wanted to prove the sky was blue, how would we go about doing that? We’d run an experiment (say, a bunch of people looking at the sky and recording what colour they see). Then we’d share the details (guess what, everyone saw blue!) and come to a conclusion (the sky is probably blue). And there would still be people fighting it and saying “why would you blindly trust science like that you idiots” and all sorts of cringy stuff. Maybe someday we’ll find out the sky is actually Blorange and we just don’t have the eye receptors to see Blorange. Stay open-minded and always be willing to learn and change your mind! Blorange is still Blorange whether you believe in it or not.

Why is it depressing that there's no "meaning" to life? We create our own meaning.

I honestly called it a unicorn fish because I forgot the name

Yes, one can always tell people who've never been in the higher tax bracket - they worry about being worse off if they get a raise.

Most of us are don't have an interesting enough life to be spied on all the time. What will they see, honestly?

And OCD isn't just organizing your room ten times a day. I have frequent problems like when I twitch one foot I must twitch the other, and I also try to avoid certain words like "just". Also I don't ever want to clean my room because I know where everything is, even though it's messy.

“How do you think your premiums work?” “That’s different!” 🤔

I get these sometimes, particularly from dreams. One I remember was when I was around 10, I had a dream where I walk into my backyard. There was a table full of items. I reach into an open shoebox, and pull out a business card for a shoe store. I remember as a kid I found the dream to be weird, and that dream stuck with me for awhile. I would occasionally remember it. A few years later, there was a major earthquake. There was an inspector going through our house check for damages, so we had to move stuff out of the house. I was bored, so I was walking the house, and I went into the backyard. Déjà vu. Really freaked me out. Apparently that shoebox was originally stored in my dad's closet for years, from his old job he hadn't worked for a decade.

There are always (unnecessary) trends, and not all of them need to keep away from gluten? And when they cheat/change the diet people start to wonder? Or just the ordinary story of haters, "I'm not celiac, so neigher are you!" or "No one was celiac when I was little, so there can't be no advancement in healtcare/understanding of the human body after 1960!", or, "everybode have problem with gluten, man up"... 🤷‍♂️