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Re: Hypocretin Test Results

Posted by kaiyen on May 17, 2001 at 20:54:47:

In Reply to: Re: Hypocretin Test Results posted by Hypocretin on May 17, 2001 at 08:28:19:

I'm not sure if Michele Okun still reads this forum...but I e-mailed with her once or twice a few weeks ago about my test back in June 2000. I also had normal hypocretin (I'm not technically diagnosed with N yet, but as treatment for sleep apnea is hitting a dead-end, I think the doctors are leaning that way).

I asked her about the confusing anecdotes about normal hypocretin but with N, and exactly what normal or abnormal hypocretin meant. I guess that's the main point of the research right now - trying to figure out the relationship between normal hypocretin levels and narcolepsy. I think she said my questions were "ahead of the research."

That's not much of an answer, but figured I'd chime in.
k.

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