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Letter: Letters: Bedtime blues

Published 23 April 1994

From S. T. DOBBS

Q: Why do I often experience a violent contraction – almost a convulsion
– of the limbs, particularly the legs, when just dozing off to sleep? This
can be sufficient to wake me up completely. I have also observed the same
thing in some pet animals.

S. T. Dobbs Market Harborough, Leics

Issue no. 1922 published 23 April 1994

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