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Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) manifests as uncomfortable sensations in the legs and an irresistible urge to move them. RLS is classified as a sleep disorder and movement disorder but is better characterized as a neurological sensory disorder.RLS is one of several disorders that can cause exhaustion and daytime sleepiness, which can strongly affect mood, concentration, memory and task performance. Untreated moderate to severe RLS can contribute to depression and anxiety.
More than 80% of people with RLS also experience periodic limb movement of sleep (PLMS). PLMS is characterized by involuntary leg (and sometimes arm) twitching or jerking movements during sleep that typically occur every 15 to 40 seconds, sometimes throughout the night.
Common signs and symptoms of RLS: irresistible urge to move, which is accompanied by uncomfortable sensations in their lower limbs, sensations in their legs are often difficult to define but may be described as aching throbbing, pulling, itching, crawling, or creeping. These sensations less commonly affect the arms, and rarely the chest or head. Although the sensations can occur on just one side of the body, they most often affect both sides. They can also alternate between sides.
Because moving the legs (or other affected parts of the body) relieves the discomfort, people with RLS often keep their legs in motion to minimize or prevent the sensations. They may pace the floor, constantly move their legs while sitting, and toss and turn in bed.
A classic feature of RLS is that the symptoms are worse at night with a distinct symptom-free period in the early morning, allowing for more refreshing sleep at that time. Some people with RLS have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep.
RLS symptoms may vary from day to day, in severity and frequency, and from person to person. In moderately severe cases, symptoms occur only once or twice a week but often result in significant delay of sleep onset, with some disruption of daytime function. In severe cases of RLS, the symptoms occur more than twice a week and result in burdensome interruption of sleep and impairment of daytime function.
People with RLS can sometimes experience remissions—spontaneous improvement over a period of weeks or months before symptoms reappear—usually during the early stages of the disorder. In general, however, symptoms become more severe over time.
People who have both RLS and an associated medical condition tend to develop more severe symptoms rapidly.
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Fact-Sheets/Restless-Legs-Syndrome-Fact-Sheet
What the Initiate of Learning will realize is that not only does Restless Leg Syndrome Intersect with Tardive Dyskinesia, Tardive Dyskinesia intersects with many other movement disorders such as Parkinsons, Tourettes and others.It is not beneficial to assign a single diagnosis based on symptoms when many of those same symptoms are also assigned other diagnoses. It is better to understand how many different diagnoses have the same or similar symptoms, and then try to understand a common connection of causes, as far as can be pieced together from the fragmented information.
When it comes to movement disorders we can be certain the common connection is neurological which is due to an imbalance in the cells due to an imbalance of nutrition and toxins. This is further exacerbated by medications that target symptoms, rather than cause, and in doing so, target one aspect of the human body ecosystem, and in doing so creates further imbalance, and in doing so, uses additional toxins in the process.
