| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| kev |
i have had rmd since i was born i never rock while i am awake only when i sleep.at the age of 26 i seen a doctor for shaky hands high blood pressure and back ache i told him about my rocking. i got sent to a neurophysiologist and then on to a sleep study for a week. they found i rocked only in a rem sleep and told this was rare. i am on a drug called melatonin that helps a little. think i will never find a cure?oh and i have both my parents and had no child hood problems. i am however a twin? |
12/3/2009 |
| tj |
i am 19 years old, and i have been rocking myself to sleep for as long as i can remember. i always wondered why, but never knew. i rock myself to sleep every night, unless i am really tired i fall asleep, but my wife says i still wake her up rocking and i dont even know it. i thought about having a sleep study done, but it seems like they cant help me at all anyways, plus im not hurting myself. if anyone know anything let me know. |
10/12/2009 |
| Tim Daniels Jr |
Hello, I am a 30yr old male. I first noticed rocking when i was about 5 or 6, i would sit on the couch and bang my head, it felt good to me. When i would lay down and rock my whole body from side to side ( starts on my right side) I would get hit, yelled at, torchured, and much more worse from my family, so in my teens i tried to stop it, come to find out that i would still move in my sleep (not knowing it), when i got married i told my partner that this was a problem for me and has been since i can remember. I am going monday to start the intake process to have a study done on my rocking. Even now i am sitting here rocking (just caught myself again) generally i dont recognise when i am rocking while sitting awake, or when i sleep on my side. I always thought i was alone in this. Thanks a million for posting on here... i done feel so much alone in this. |
10/3/2009 |
| Wayne |
The Doctor prescribed me clonipin. It works, but is a very addictive narcotic. I had to stop. Seroquel seems to work good. That is non narcotic |
6/11/2009 |
| Wayne |
I bang my head, I rock, I roll My leg, I shake my leg, and I'm 42 years old. My fiance laughs at me |
6/11/2009 |
| Angel |
"ISTHERE ANY DRUGS TO TREAT RMD"
em.. nope. My drug was exhaustion. :-p
"Oh, My god, I have this Problem since childhood, Now I'm 36. Its very embarrasing situation, I like to know if there anything can be done"
work till you drop, and then some more |
5/25/2009 |
| Angel |
Just in-case you are the person, here is the best possible advise you can get regarding the disorder.
I have the disorder. I have had it since the age of 3 and lived through it till 18. I stopped for a short while and start only when extremely stressed.
Stopping myself from rocking was quite possibly the hardest things I did in my life. My trick was to work till I drop. I use to work 15 hours per day in a fast-food restaurant, just to be able to sleep without the energy of doing it. I made sure I was exhausted.
Around 7 - 9 months after I was clear. I must warn you, stress can make you start again. I must mention, I tried to stop for around 6 years before, but, this none of my methods worked, this one however proved to be sucessful.
It's best to talk to your wife about it, as doing this can affect your attitude/perspective and outlook on life.
Don't worry, your not alone, and believe me, stopping it is the hardest thing in the world!
PS: when your stressed, talk to your wife before you start. You will thank me after. Unfortunately I don't have a wife, but my mum helps. :-) |
5/25/2009 |
| Jan |
My husband, age 55, has been doing the body rolling/rocking back and forth his entire life. He suffers from insomnia and has been diagnosed with Restless Leg Syndrome. He has been given a prescription for Clonipine which seems to help only a little. He suffers from high blood pressure and was recently found to have a compression fracture in his back which the doctor believes to be related to the rocking. He comes from a family where there was not much, if any, nuturing , and both of his parents died when he was young - so the article rings very true. If anyone knows of any other medication or cure for the rocking/body rolling, we'd love to hear about them. |
4/6/2009 |
| R L |
I suffer from this condition - it describes my symptoms so flawlessly that I can't imagine it could be anything else. I've suffered from it since early childhood, practically as long as I can remember. It's difficult to face up to it for me even now I'm 27, as my parents always seemed to treat it as if it were my fault, like a kind of indulgence, even a kind of perversion, when I was a child. One of them, usually my dad, would burst into the room and shout at me, most times I would be half asleep and unaware of what I was doing, and this would be quite shocking. I don't know why they didn't try to ask me what was wrong, or take me to see a doctor about it - maybe they did ask a doctor, who presumably told them it would go away naturally. The condition disrupts my sleep every night, I'm sure it must have drastically affected my whole life. What a pity there is no real understanding of it, much less any cure. I have dealt with it as best as I can on my own all these years, after all it doesn't feel bad when you're doing it, so I assume I will continue to deal with in the same way for the rest of my life. |
3/26/2009 |
| RAY D |
ISTHERE ANY DRUGS TO TREAT RMD |
8/3/2008 |
| Dan |
Oh, My god, I have this Problem since childhood, Now I'm 36. Its very embarrasing situation, I like to know if there anything can be done |
6/29/2008 | |
