Does anyone have experience with plmd?

I have no such experience, but I can think of why the limb movements happen. It is, to me, an indication of restlessness and underlying anxiety that keeps you from entering successive stages of sleep. IOW, you are stressed and your system is 'aroused' sufficiently, even while attempting to sleep, that your unconscious mind is just hanging onto sleep with its bared teeth. Also, if your heart is stressed with low blood supply, it feels different in some people and that can be a signal to your sympathetic nervous system to keep you alert, anxious, aroused, wanting to enter into full-blown fight-or-flight response...including strange dreams and thrashing limbs.
That is to say that your body is doing precisely what it thinks it needs to do to save you, even while you're in bed and asleep. Meaning 'perfectly natural and understandable'.

The comment from "mbixler" is correct: it is a neurological disorder, not a psychological disorder.
"Gloaming" confesses in their opening sentence: "I have no such experience", better allow for those who have this terrible disorder to. comment on it.

I have suffered from leg spasms leading to jerks for several years, and treated by neurology as restless leg syndrome. I have had nerve conduction testing, several types of medications, physical therapy, and injections to no avail. In 2024, I saw a Mayo Sleep Specialist who truly listened to me, and said I had Periodic Limb Movement Disorder or PLMD. Buprenorphine subloxene was prescribed which kept the legs jerks at bay, mostly, until early part of this year. Dr. Tashman asked me to see a neurologist for further studies, and I wrote to the Mayo neurology to schedule a MRI. I had spinal fusion L5-S1 December 2014, which the lumbars above the hardware are "stacking" on L4 and L5. I also have a "C" scoliosis curvature, which compounds the nightly leg jerks. I feel I have a compressed nerve or herniated disc pressing onto a nerve. Last MRI was 2023, with a spinal cord stimulator inserted, which the test was incomplete due to the laborious time the MRI took (methodically time-sensitive and uncomfortable conditions)Any thoughts?

I have suffered from leg spasms leading to jerks for several years, and treated by neurology as restless leg syndrome. I have had nerve conduction testing, several types of medications, physical therapy, and injections to no avail. In 2024, I saw a Mayo Sleep Specialist who truly listened to me, and said I had Periodic Limb Movement Disorder or PLMD. Buprenorphine subloxene was prescribed which kept the legs jerks at bay, mostly, until early part of this year. Dr. Tashman asked me to see a neurologist for further studies, and I wrote to the Mayo neurology to schedule a MRI. I had spinal fusion L5-S1 December 2014, which the lumbars above the hardware are "stacking" on L4 and L5. I also have a "C" scoliosis curvature, which compounds the nightly leg jerks. I feel I have a compressed nerve or herniated disc pressing onto a nerve. Last MRI was 2023, with a spinal cord stimulator inserted, which the test was incomplete due to the laborious time the MRI took (methodically time-sensitive and uncomfortable conditions)Any thoughts?

I have suffered from leg spasms leading to jerks for several years, and treated by neurology as restless leg syndrome. I have had nerve conduction testing, several types of medications, physical therapy, and injections to no avail. In 2024, I saw a Mayo Sleep Specialist who truly listened to me, and said I had Periodic Limb Movement Disorder or PLMD. Buprenorphine subloxene was prescribed which kept the legs jerks at bay, mostly, until early part of this year. Dr. Tashman asked me to see a neurologist for further studies, and I wrote to the Mayo neurology to schedule a MRI. I had spinal fusion L5-S1 December 2014, which the lumbars above the hardware are "stacking" on L4 and L5. I also have a "C" scoliosis curvature, which compounds the nightly leg jerks. I feel I have a compressed nerve or herniated disc pressing onto a nerve. Last MRI was 2023, with a spinal cord stimulator inserted, which the test was incomplete due to the laborious time the MRI took (methodically time-sensitive and uncomfortable conditions)Any thoughts?

A 2019 MRI revealed subluxation at C1/T7 and I was diagnosed with cervical myelopathy and had urgent surgery, C4/T4 decompression and fusion. After a couple of moths I was plagued by leg jerks at night. I was treated by my neurologist with baclofen at first with increasing dosage and then tizanidine was added. Jerking till present. I did not want a baclofen pump. My neurologist offered to write me a script for marijuana to see if it would help which I declined. Then he said I may want to explore sublingual delivery of cbd oil. I did and I’m so glad I did. It was the only remedy that had a somewhat immediate reaction and made evening relax time and sleep so much more bearable. Eventually, after increasing dosages they were still present, but just not as bad. I needed to explore further and find someone who was an expert on treating this symptom. After being turned down for an appointment with Mayo, I pushed my doctor to identify some experts in the Chicago area that may be able to help me. Luckily I was able to see a spine specialist downtown who diagnosed me as having nocturnal myoclonus. She put me on clonazepam which has changed my life. I’ve never slept better since my surgery and continue to do so. And I don’t use cbd oil any longer. Baclofen usage is being methodically reduced, too. While baclofen and tizanidine help with spasticity, I needed an anti-seizure medication is the way it was explained to me. The cause was spinal cord scarring from my 2019 surgery. Hope my story helps and good luck.

I have suffered from leg spasms leading to jerks for several years, and treated by neurology as restless leg syndrome. I have had nerve conduction testing, several types of medications, physical therapy, and injections to no avail. In 2024, I saw a Mayo Sleep Specialist who truly listened to me, and said I had Periodic Limb Movement Disorder or PLMD. Buprenorphine subloxene was prescribed which kept the legs jerks at bay, mostly, until early part of this year. Dr. Tashman asked me to see a neurologist for further studies, and I wrote to the Mayo neurology to schedule a MRI. I had spinal fusion L5-S1 December 2014, which the lumbars above the hardware are "stacking" on L4 and L5. I also have a "C" scoliosis curvature, which compounds the nightly leg jerks. I feel I have a compressed nerve or herniated disc pressing onto a nerve. Last MRI was 2023, with a spinal cord stimulator inserted, which the test was incomplete due to the laborious time the MRI took (methodically time-sensitive and uncomfortable conditions)Any thoughts?