According to the NIH, what I have is not RLS, but PLMS :
"PLMS is characterized by involuntary
leg twitching or jerking movements during sleep that typically occur
every 15 to 40 seconds,
sometimes throughout the night. The
symptoms cause repeated awakening and severely disrupted sleep. Although
many individuals
with RLS also develop PLMS, most
people with PLMS do not experience RLS. People who have PLMS and do not
have RLS or another
cause for the PLMS may be diagnosed
with periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD). PLMD may be a variant of
RLS and thus respond
to similar treatments." http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/restless_legs/detail_restless_legs.htm
Although, in my case, it causes repeated awakening and severely disrupted sleep in Mike, not me, and a king-size bed will take care of that.
Apparently the only way to really diagnose it is to go through a sleep study, which might be kind of fun and interesting, but since it's not life-threatening, I can't see any reason to bother. Mike might not agree.
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