Narcolepsy Forum Posting

Posted by amy on March 02, 2001 at 07:54:50:

In Reply to: Help posted by Gilligan on March 01, 2001 at 23:42:04:

I think lots of people with Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome can function fine, but you also described either someone who is a long sleeper or has idiopathic hypersomnia (or even narcolepsy) and these conditions can make many aspects of life nearly impossible. If you just had DSPS, you could probably work out an arrangement where you go to work late and stay late, but when you have to spend a lot of the day asleep, needless to say, you aren't exactly efficient.

I don't know why you're sure that what you need is an anti-depressant. I think you should make an appointment with a GOOD sleep disorders clinic first. Make sure they do an interview before the test. I go to Stanford, and they talked to me for over 2 hours before they even decided which tests I needed. The problem is, all of these disorders can look like each other after awhile because they all cause sleep deprivation and it's the syptoms of sleep deprivation that we notice.

I used to go to bed at 5pm and wake up at 11 am before I was diagnosed. That looks like the profile of ESPS and of a long sleeper, but I have narcolepsy (cataplexy came later).

Good luck, and if you need the names of any sleep disorder clinics near you, let me know what state you are in.

AMY

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