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I have always been finicky with clothing. Ever since I was a child and my mom would take me shopping for clothes, I was quite tactile and sensory when shopping...

During an exceedingly long trip, I encountered a large, red, ROAD CLOSED sign. As is the way in the U.K., diversion signs had been put up to send us all...

The list of "don'ts" for people with restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a mile long, and for good reason, too. I've lost count of the times I've just broken down...

As a sufferer of restless legs syndrome (RLS), I seem to spend a vast amount of my time trying to insert myself into the normal daytime culture instead of being...

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) medication is the best invention in the whole wide world. It was at least 15 years ago that I was first introduced to pramipexole and then...

"Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!" If my pramipexole pills were yellow and square, I would have gone with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Pill" as a nod to Elton John, but they aren’t; so I went...

I have experienced augmentation very quickly with the first medication my neurologist put me on. It was levodopa, and I have read that it can cause augmentation fairly quickly in...

I have really terrible dysmenorrhea (throbbing or cramping pains in the lower abdomen), so I haven't really ever stopped to check if my restless legs syndrome (RLS) was worse or...

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sleep disorder. It is a neurological condition that can occur at any time of the day but is most common when the body is...

I have been thinking about writing this piece for some time, not for 'smutty' reasons, but purely for the relief that can sometimes be gleaned from it. Let's discuss orgasms...

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If you've read a few of my articles, you'll know that one of my absolute favorite things to do is meet other people with restless legs syndrome (RLS) and get...

In my case, sleep deprivation is an ongoing state of being. That whole "I’ll catch up on the weekend" idea has never seemed to work. The worse it gets, the...

I have been digging into information on micro-napping, also called microsleep; basically, it comes down to having excessive daytime sleepiness due to sleep deprivation. You are alert one moment, and...

When I was 30-something, possibly closer to the (what seemed at the time) big 4-0, I heard the name "restless legs syndrome" (RLS) for the first time. Prior to that...

I was around 9 or 10 when I got both fibromyalgia and restless legs syndrome (RLS). I went from being an active kid to not having much energy. On the...

When you suffer from restless legs syndrome (RLS) you spend a lot of your time trying, but predominantly failing, to be "normal." "Normal" takes many different forms, like that thing...

I have been sleep-deprived for as long as I remember. Not sure if that is saying a whole lot, since sleep deprivation impairs memory. But it is certainly timely, given...

Stigma is a nasty word. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it means, "a strong feeling of disapproval that most people in a society have about something, especially when this is...

Something really interesting happened to me recently. I can look back at it now and laugh, but at the time it was happening, it was anything but funny. I had...