Restless Leg Syndrome Treatment: What Actually Works

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A woman I’ll call Margaret had been pacing her hallway at two in the morning for three years before she found her way to a neurologist. Her primary care doctor had told her it was probably anxiety. Another doctor had suggested a nighttime antihistamine to help her sleep, which she tried for two weeks and which made everything noticeably worse. The sensation she described was consistent: something beneath the surface of her calves, not quite pain, not quite cramping, closer to an urgent electrical current that demanded she move. She’d get up and walk. The feeling would ease. She’d lie back down. It would return. Night after night after night.

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Restless Leg Syndrome Treatment: What Actually Works