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4. Ask a neurologist about RLS
Thu Nov 30, 2023, 11:36 AM
Nov 2023

My wife has suffered from it for 20 years.

Restless Legs Syndrome has been around forever, but only recently acknowledged as a medical problem. Probably because 90% of victims are women. My wife got it after her first cancer surgery, and it hasn’t gone away. That was 22 years ago. It can be controlled with medication. My wife says that without medication, she would have jumped out of a tenth story window years ago, and without even asking Putin’s help. There is no known treatment or cure.

If you have it, you can’t lay down or even comfortably sit for any period of time, no matter how tired you are. She likens it to a well-designed torture tactic that the Stasi might have dreamed up. I hope for you that what you have is something else.

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