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Re: important question

Posted by T.R. on January 31, 2002 at 14:51:55:

In Reply to: important question posted by Safrin on January 31, 2002 at 04:12:18:

Hi!

Sleep attacks occur when the activity in your brain is low, so it`s not likely that you will fall asleep without warning when you are walking or doing something physically active.
If your sitting on the other hand, reading, watch TV, at meetings, in class, etc. a person with narcolepsy is likely to fall asleep without warning.
This used to happend to me alot before. Other times my head started aching before the sleep attack. But having a sleep attack is not like fainting, so you will never drop lifeless to the floor (well, I think you can from heavy cataplexy, but not from sleep attacks). Sometimes I wake sort of hanging from what I have been sitting on, other times it seems that my body haven`t moved at all. The only reason I know that I have been sleeping is because I realese that the last 2 minutes (or sometimes 20 minutes!) are totally blanck. It seems that people aronud me want be aware of that I`m sleeping, unless they try to talk to me (then I mostly wake and am totally lost...). And also someone told me that my (open) eyes had a kind of warewolfy look...
You are saying that you fall asleep everywhere, and that sound like sleep attacks to me. I would think that you have narcolepsy (or if not some other sleep disorder) a MSLT will show.

I have gotten Ritalin for me narcolepsy and my sleep attacks and cataplexy are almost gone, I still have a problem with automatic behavior, but my life is much better. And so can probably yours be with the right drug.
So don`t give up! Call the specialist every day untill he scuedules you up for a MSLT!

T.R.

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