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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:41 PM
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I Can't Stop Shaking My Foot And Bouncing My Knee...
Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 11:15 PM by arwalden
... if I'm not bouncing my knee up and down, then I'll just nervously "wave" my foot from side to side. I wonder how many calories I burn up when I do that for 8-10 hours a day?

Is that just a "guy-thing" or do women do it too? For the longest time I was convinced that it was a teen's "racing-hormone-thing" that would eventually subside... but here I am 44 years old, and still bouncing my knee at approximately 290 BPM (yes, I've counted).
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:44 PM
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1. I do it
My dad does it, my grandfather did it. Thought it was just a family thing.
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:44 PM
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2. dupe
Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 10:45 PM by lazarus
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:46 PM
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3. It's an indication that you are extremely YIN.
Sugar, coffee and high yin foods cause that reaction. Eat more grain.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:46 PM
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4. It's a medical condition.
Perhaps?

Restless Leg Syndrome: http://www.rls.org/
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:54 PM
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5. OMG... It's Got A Name?? And A Website?
I always knew I was strange...

Thanks for the info and URL!
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vetwife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 10:57 PM
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6. It definately is..Most combat vets have it
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:07 PM
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10. That's an interesting site.
Do you think you have RLS? I was going to ask about your caffeine intake! If you have to have a condition, it doesn't see at all life limiting or threatening.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:41 PM
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20. I Drink About A Pot Of Coffee A Day...
... and even though the coffee pot says it's a "12-cup" coffee maker, in REALITY it pours about 8-10 regular mugs of coffee.
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:47 PM
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22. Me too, but no RLS.
So, you giving up the coffee or content to have a name for the condition? (I'd select the latter, btw.)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:56 PM
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23. LOL
My "four-cupper" actually = ONE :D
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:02 PM
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7. Allen, I do that too, and yes it burns up a ton of calories
Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 11:03 PM by Skittles
I have been banned from sitting next to Warren at work in meetings, since he does the same thing and it drives everyone nuts.

I think mine is an offshoot of an attention disorder :D
I've always done it - I remember dad hollering at me when I was a little kid for "shaking the table".
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jdots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:02 PM
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8. You could be a brilliant drummer
My daughters did it,it isn't a male or female thing ,it is just god telling you to buy a drum kit.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:06 PM
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9. I've done it since I was a small child
And it's never stopped.

My partner, quite lovingly, calls it my "vibrating", because she can tell that I'm doing it in my head even if my body isn't doing it.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:31 PM
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17. No sex threads, Rabrrrrrr.
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:08 PM
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11. they just said on the news tonight that fidgeters DO burn calories
and tend to weigh less than non-fidgeters. Scientific, but I don't have a link, because I think it was KING TV and they demand name and email info so...

I heard it a few months ago and try to remember to fidget-but it's hard. Hard work
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:16 PM
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12. Allen, my legs get so fidgetty at night, it keeps me awake
It's hell when your brain says 'sleep' and your legs scream "BOOGIE TIME!". I have been known to jog in place, in the bathroom at 3 AM.

Horse chestnuts are supposed to help but I haven't tried it. Anybody have any herbal things they have used which help?
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:18 PM
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13. I do it and I am definitely not a guy. And I am 56
it is getting worse and more aggravating as I grow older.
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Shananigans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:22 PM
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14. I'm 25/female and have done it since I was a little kid...
my parents used to get so upset with me in church for "shaking the pew" that I would get in trouble when I got home. I still do it to this day. For some reason I find the repetitive motion somewhat soothing...I know...it's weird, but I just can't stop!
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:30 PM
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15. I do the same thing which kind of negates the
Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 11:30 PM by ikojo
study that said thin people tend to fidget whereas fat people do not. I am definitely fat. I have always bounced my knee, so much so that my stepfather gave me the only nickname I've ever had, thumper.

I forgot to add that I am female.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:30 PM
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16. I'm doing it right now.
I do it all the time. And I have read that people who do that do burn a bit more calories than people who don't.

Sometimes I wish I could stop.

It drives people around me nutty.
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ldf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:31 PM
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18. it's my natural manifestation that
didt didt didt didt

"I'VE GOT RHYTHM"

"I'VE GOT MUSIC"

"I'VE GOT MY MAN, WHO COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE."
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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:33 PM
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19. I do it all the time.
People sitting next to me get pissed, and sometimes they ask me to stop.

I don't ever notice i'm doing it half the time.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:42 PM
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21. I don't think it's just a guy thing.
I have what I call "nervous energy." I rarely sit still even when I think I'm sitting still.
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