“I have been tired my whole life, as long as I can remember. Falling asleep at night was almost always difficult. Within 10 minutes of lying down, just as my body started to relax, my leg would start aching and twitching, keeping me from drifting off. ”

Sometimes the twitching would get so bad that the only way to make it go away was to get out of bed and do some deep knee-bends. My wife always complained about how I would kick and fidget in bed, keeping her awake. I never could get a full night's rest, waking up every other hour, staring at the clock while I stretched my legs out. I always had assumed that this was how my body dealt with stress and that what I was feeling couldn't be helped. Sleeping would go in cycles. I would get very little sleep for a week before my body would just "crash" out of sheer exhaustion for a night.

What made my lack of sleep even worse was that I couldn't seem to take a nap during the day. Anytime I would lie down and close my eyes, I would feel that weird crawling sensation in my legs start up.

When you never get any rest, the day becomes 100 times more difficult than it should be. My job requires me to read through long documents, and when you are tired, that is one of the last things you want to do. Trying to think and keep everything straight in my head was next to impossible. I was always very forgetful and often moody because of not getting enough rest.