Narcolepsy Forum Posting

Posted by Christy Ann on April 28, 2002 at 07:02:16:

In Reply to: Forum closed for a week posted by Sandman on April 20, 2002 at 23:53:45:

Someone in forum 17 asked if their teeth chattering problem might be cataplexy.

I too have the teeth chattering--- and mine gets worse and worse the more tired or stressed I am.
That's the same pattern of cataplexy. For a while, my teeth would chatter wildly after every time I yawned too, so half my day was chattery. This started only about a year before I finally got N diagnosed.

But the real cincher for me deciding that it's a form of cataplexy was a response I got when I posted this same question on Usenet a year and a half ago. Someone wrote back to me to tell me of their own experience. They'd had exactly the same thing-- the teeth chattering, jaw chattering, getting worse in stress or tiredness or with other triggers-- and theirs eventually developed (mid 30s) into full-fledged drop-to-the-floor-at-the-drop-of-a-hat cataplexy.

So. Maybe we teeth chatterers have that to look forward to. ;)

Christy Ann

P.S.
I have this problem a lot less now that I take neurontin (an anti-convulsant that has pretty good anti-pain properties.) And when I forget to take any for a day, it comes back with a vengence, so I know the neurontin is helping control that in me.

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