FALLS

As I somehow lost my previous post regarding Falls I'll repeat but will do in dot points so it's easier to read.

🔹when first diagonised at age 48 I was thirsty for information and came across an American RLS site mentioning Falls

🔹I immediately phoned Mum and asked her if all the broken bones I had as a child, could they have been caused by RLS?

🔹I'd had 12. The worst aged 13 coming out of a double somersault on the trampoline. Double sprain right ankle plaster knee to toes for 3 months.

🔹We decided that no, I fell off a bike, I couldn't run properly, I just fell over blah blah blah

🔹Phew ... that's one symptom I don't have.

🔹Two hours after hanging up from Mum ... I tell. OMG

🔹I have done this everyday of my life sometimes 2/3 times a day. After a stride my knee would click backwards and I'd loose balance. If I was walking I could straighten in time and not fall. I didn't tell anyone because, well ... basically no-one cared. If I was running, jogging, bike riding. No way.

🔹I couldn't participate in the family sport which was tennis. BUT I competed at national level in race walking, national level as a marching girl and state level in netball. I was tall for my age and my role was goal shoot. I just paced the goal arch, got fed the ball and shot the goals. Put me in any other position and I was useless ... I fell over.

🔹Those three sports all require a different type of leg movement. Especially race walking (which altho looks weird, for me it felt natural). When my knee clicked backwards I wouldn't feel it as the knee is already being forced into a backwards push.

🔹Like all RLS symptoms it moved to the left knee as well and the frequency increased

🔹Now? I walk extremely slow and with extreme trepidation.

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You have already got some replies from your other post on this subject.

[nightdancer]

I will look at your other post. BUT, RLS is not muscular, so does not weaken the muscles in the way you are thinking. SLEEP DEPRIVATION can make you shaky and fall, so in that way only RLS could be connected to falls. I think , from reading your posts, you are way over thinking this. We do not have the answers, for sure, but I can tell you RLS does not present as a disease that would cause falls directly. The "side effects" of having RLS, maybe.