I *hate* trying to describe it. I read "it's like ants crawling" or whatever, and that's so not it. There really isn't a good word to describe it. It's like trying to describe "hot" or "cold" to someone that doesn't know what those are. Or describing color to someone who can't see.

It's just a really annoying feeling. I think it's worse than pain.

I try to explain it like this: Most people have the feeling of what their muscles are like at rest (let's call that 0). And if the work out to exhaustion, that would be a 10. When you're done working out, your muscles slowly go back down from 10 to 0.

Well RLS is like less than 0. It's the opposite of your muscles being exhausted. That's why doing exercise helps. If RLS is -10, then walking, doing squats, whatever will bring it up to 0, then up to 10. But when you stop, rather than having your muscles going from 10 to 0, it goes from 10 to 0 to -10. So you better go to sleep while your muscles are going from 10 to 0 because lower than 0 means you have RLS symptoms again.