Restless Legs Syndrome???
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Restless Legs Syndrome???
| Fri, 06-10-2005 - 12:42pm |
Okay, I was up until 2am last night massaging my presumably NT 6 yo dd legs to get her to sleep. This has happened on several occasions and seems worse when she is overly tired. Also, she said started this thing where if she bumps her right foot on something she has to bump her left foot in the same way to feel balanced (OCD??!!!). Does anyone have any experience with restless legs and if so any remedies you could share would be greatly appeciated. I'm beginning to think my gene pool disallows NT's but we're relatively intelligent and not bad looking(trying to find the positives). Thanks, Vicky

Well I don't really know what restless leg syndrome is but my 7yr old dd has had leg pain for yrs that wakes her at night or keeps her from falling asleep. I've found it usually stems from a misalignment of her pelvis and a chiropractic adjustment takes care of it.
Samantha
Does she take any allergy medication? I get restless legs when I take certain allergy and cold meds. It took me a while to figure out what was causing it, and I really hated the feeling. I had a lot of restless rights last allergy season due to it.
On another note....I'm just a lurker with a question about OCD, since you're the first one I've seen mention it in a child on one of these boards. My 2.75 year old daughter is driving me to read a lot info about a lot things lately, and OCD is definitely one of them. She's pretty spirited and really bright and has some behaviors that I can't seem to figure out. Some of them are classic OCD, like need to touch every post in a guardrail along a trail, or always go through the zoo along the same path. Other's are just odd. She often spends significant portions of the day playing "baby puppy" and refusing to answer to anything but "baby puppy" (This has been going on for more than 3 months).
So, I was wondering if your daughter had any other behaviors that you think of as OCD and how long they've going on. I hope you don't mind me asking. I'm just starting to wonder if I need to have early intervention testing and looking for any info I can find.
Thanks in advance.
Mary
Mary,
I gave her Benedryl last week and it made the restless legs thing intensify. I'm starting to think that the snack cake I let her eat before bed might have been the culprit. Generally I don't let my kids eat anything sugary at least 2 hours before bed but on this night I gave in and paid for it.
On the OCD question, she just started showing signs of this. My younger brother has been dx with OCD and I am quite sure I have it. In fact, I used to do the same thing as my daughter: if I clicked my teeth together on the right I had to tap my toe on my left foot. I remember it made me crazy but if I didn't do it I felt like I would explode. Somehow that particular balancing thing went away but now that I'm in my thirties my OCD has reappeared in the form of moving furniture. I constantly rearrange the furniture in my house. There is a great release I get and satisfaction after rearranging furniture. It drives my husband crazy and is not great on my back.
As far as the pretending to be a puppy thing, I have heard that subject discussed on this board(I think) but I can't recall the full discussion. You might want to start a new thread and see if someone has experienced this.
My AS son is very particular about taking the same paths or routes, whether it be driving to school or just the way he takes to get to his classroom. Good luck and I hope someone can help you with your other question. Vicky
The other thing that causes me to have restless legs is talking too many days off from working out, especially if I've been training hard for some reason. However, I know that if I give Kivrin a sweet treat at night she'll be up until midnight talking to herself about it. On my husband's last birthday we gave her a sliver of chocolate cake after dinner. She was awake for hours talking about how much she likes birthday cake. We listened to her on the monitor and giggled to ourselves while swearing "NO MORE CHOCOLATE CAKE!" She's hypoglycemic and it was her first ever.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. My husband has some OCD tendencies too, and that's why I started to wonder about Kivrin originally. I did some repetitive coping things when I was a kid too, but I really think it was just coping behavior. My parents were young and my dad wasn't always so, um, stable...I found ways to make things more pallettable. Kivrin is really sensitive, especially to crowds, so I thought some of her eccentricities were just her own coping mechanisms. She's my first, so I don't really have a clue.
I will start another thread and ask about her behaviors. Thanks. A friend of mine from another board already suggested that some of her behaviors sounded like AS so that's why I started lurking here a bit.
Thanks again.
Mary