Can You Get Restless Arms Like Restless Legs

Yes it can affect your arms.

Can you get restless arms like restless legs. Can restless leg move to arms. Yes on top of resltless leg i have restless arm its horrible both of them i stretch my arms or legs to the point it hurts just to get some release from it at one time i asked my dr what could be prescribed he said its treated with parkinsons meds which will make u hallucinate what i use on my legs is pressure med socks never thought of it but i should try and use it on. Some people have the symptoms of restless legs syndrome occasionally while others have them every day.

For this reason restless arm and legs are a real problem while sleeping. The symptoms can vary from mild to severe. RLS definitely can affect the arms Restless legs syndrome - Wikipedia.

Okay clear something up for my hypochondriac self. Interestingly it is much harder for me to get rid of it from my elbows and I use different techniques to tackle it there rather than in my legs. Internal Medicine 14 years experience.

I do get it mainly in my legs but also get it badly sometimes in my elbows. It more specifically targets the pain and discomfort of nerves in the arms legs hands and feet areas whose functions are served by the peripheral nervous system. To our knowledge this is the first case of restless legs syndrome with arm restlessness as the initial symptom in an otherwise neurologically normal person.

Answer 1 of 4. Just to clarify if symptoms ONLY occur in the arms this is a different matter. It was only during periods of relaxation that the sharp tingling burning sensations welled.

Its okay CP restless arms are part and parcel of RLSRLMD for many of us. Intriguingly the discomfort was only in his arms. Restless arms due to an extension to the upper limbs are commonly observed in severe RLS patients especially in case of augmentation syndrome.