That weird urge to move my body at night...

Hi all,

For many years, I’m having a very weird problem.

Sometimes when I can’t fall asleep, (or can’t fall asleep again after having slept already), I’m experiencing a very frustrating state of my body, I’m still not able to describe it properly. Here’s an attempt…

Best way to describe it, is a state of big discomfort laying still. I constantly have the extreme urge I really have to move my body. It’s an agitated, nervy, tingling feeling. I actually have the impression it’s radiating mainly down to ‘ending’ parts of my body (hands and feet)

If I force myself not to move my body but lay still, I experience something I wouldn’t describe as “pain”, but still it hurts.

I’m not even sure if it’s physical or mental discomfort.

It’s something between being nervous/tired/thirsty/uncomfortable, having muscle 'pain', and yet it’s none of them…

An extreme urge to move.

When I force myself to stay still and try falling asleep, sometimes it’s that bad, that I have ‘bursts’ in which I suddenly spastically move my whole body for a second.

Throughout the years I discovered it gets better when someone (eg my ex girlfriend) softly caresses me on the back. Now I’m alone, and I try to caress myself on the arm. It helps a bit.

Are there people that recognize this in a way, and is there a “name” for this phenomenon? Is there a cure?

Thank you so much to read my story!

M

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