Thank you so much for taking the time to post this encouraging reply. It certainly does help to hear about your experiences, and I especially appreciated the story about the three people laughing at the diagnosis of restless legs. I’ve had that happen too, just as I have with the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. So many people, and ones who I would think have enough knowledge to not react this way have made statements indicating that they think this is a made-up condition or diagnosis. I’m glad you set those people straight and educated them. When suffering from lack of sleep it’s sometimes difficult to not be frustrated at lack of understanding of others. I was also interested to hear about your mom also having restless legs as well as you and your sisters. I am an only child, and I believe my father had them also, but there was no firm diagnosis of RLS years ago. He passed away from a heart condition when I was 28 so I’ve been inable to ask him questions about his symptoms. Ultimately though what matters is what works for us to get relief. You’re the second or third person who have mentioned vitamin D, and I am glad of the reminder so that I will ask my doctor about that also. The iron connection & taking more iron hasn’t seemed to give me much relief....interesting that she (the doctor) hasn’t suggested Vitamin D.

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