Restless legs
26 August 2023 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeMy newly-acquired (within the last ten years or less, I think) restless legs syndrome seems to be a sure-fire alarm clock that prevents me from sitting up late at night (although not from *staying* up late at night...)
Once I get to a certain level of tiredness, if I'm sitting in a chair my knees just go into spasms at frequent intervals and start lifting and bending my legs. It's not entirely involuntary, but about as involuntary as a sneeze; I feel a violent urge to do it, which is temporarily alleviated by the movement, but unfortunately not for long. I have a feeling it is to do with pressure on the underside of my thighs from the edge of the chair, but since I have noticed that it occurs exclusively late at night it seems to have more to do with lack of sleep than with sitting still for too long in ergonomically unsuitable furniture.
It does not, however, seem to happen if I am lying or sprawling on my bed or elsewhere...
[Edit: now that I'm taking note, I realise that it *does* happen when I am lying down, but manifests simply as an unremarkable flexing of the calf muscle rather than a convulsive backwards kick!]
Once I get to a certain level of tiredness, if I'm sitting in a chair my knees just go into spasms at frequent intervals and start lifting and bending my legs. It's not entirely involuntary, but about as involuntary as a sneeze; I feel a violent urge to do it, which is temporarily alleviated by the movement, but unfortunately not for long. I have a feeling it is to do with pressure on the underside of my thighs from the edge of the chair, but since I have noticed that it occurs exclusively late at night it seems to have more to do with lack of sleep than with sitting still for too long in ergonomically unsuitable furniture.
It does not, however, seem to happen if I am lying or sprawling on my bed or elsewhere...
[Edit: now that I'm taking note, I realise that it *does* happen when I am lying down, but manifests simply as an unremarkable flexing of the calf muscle rather than a convulsive backwards kick!]