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As a young girl, Liz Jones knew there was something wrong with her legs. Every evening, she would experience a "creepy, crawly" sensation that persisted throughout the night. Her legs would jerk involuntarily, making it impossible to fall asleep. She was six when her mother first took her to a...
"It was so hard to find anybody who knew anything about it," Jones says of her experience with restless legs syndrome, or RLS. It wasn't until her mid-40s that a doctor finally diagnosed the condition.
No one knows how widespread RLS really is. Experts estimate that anywhere from three to nine million Americans suffer from the neurological condition that triggers an intense, often irresistible urge to move the legs. The tingling, burning sensation associated with RLS can last for hours and worsens at night, causing...
Patients like Jones say RLS is extremely tricky to describe, which explains why getting a diagnosis can be difficult. The website RLSHelp.org lists more than 100 words and phrases that sufferers use to express how the syndrome feels, ranging from "tortured limbs" to "bugs crawling in my legs at night...
To make matters worse, RLS is not discussed in most medical schools, so the condition is commonly overlooked or mistreated; many doctors question the condition's seriousness. Often, says Jones, RLS patients develop their own coping devices, including alcohol abuse and social isolation. Four years ago, Jones started a support...