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Posted by Shadow on August 08, 2003 at 14:37:30:Hi!
When you read about cataplexy in medical textbooks the description always runs like "total or partial loss of muscle tone beginning with the mimic muscles and often distributing over the whole body from there in a symmetrical way with the mimic muscles always involved".
That's not always how it feels for me. I just have mild cataplexy. Sometimes I feel my jaw drop slightly and my speech gets blurred or my neck muscles feel weak. Sometimes my hand's grip is weaker or my arms heavier. Sometimes my legs feel weak and come near to giving way. This usually lasts for a moment up to some seconds. But it's not always symmetrical or involving the facial muscles! I also had it for example just with my left or right arm or with my arms but without feeling my face-muscles weaken. Okay, I know from the experiences with my own patients that textbooks always describe a "perfect" picture of a disorder with the typical symptoms in a typical way and that there are not really many "typical patients" in real life, but I thought I put it as a question here. Does anybody else experience his/her C's this way? Maybe it's due to different intensity of C in different muscles so that I don't recognize the C in my face when I concentrate on my hands...
Curious...
Greetings!
Ciao!
Shadow
- Re: asymmetric cataplexies... sleepydreamer 12:33 8/11/03 (3)
- Re: asymmetric cataplexies... Shadow 11:30 8/13/03 (1)
- Re: asymmetric cataplexies... Shadow 12:06 8/13/03 (0)
- Re: asymmetric cataplexies... Henry in NY 13:24 8/11/03 (0)
- Re: asymmetric cataplexies... kelley_asher 16:47 8/08/03 (0)
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