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Re: Could I have narcolepsy?

Posted by seabrooke on April 13, 2007 at 15:19:13:

In Reply to: Could I have narcolepsy? posted by Sara on April 13, 2007 at 05:32:51:

HI,

First off do you mind if I ask you what age you are? Age can maybe play a role in your sleepiness. If you are a teenager then this could be just a stage you are going through?

What you explained as being "cataplexcy" is not cataplexcy." Cataplexcy is a lost of skeletal muscle control while experiencing emotions, body temperature change, etc... It is not a weakness in the muscles in the way that you are explaining it. Yes, during a cataplexcy attack a person can experience muscle weakness (all depending on how bad their cataplexcy is) however they do not feel weak throughout the day.

Now feeling sleepy can cause you to feel weak, so that would be one reason why you are always feeling weakness in your muscles? However you might have a medical problem that is NOT a sleep disorder! You might also HAVE a sleep disorder, the only way to know is to see a doctor about it. You can look up information on your symptoms for anything however you cannot take your own blood test, tests, etc... You never know, you might have anything wrong with your health. Remember that many illnesses can give off the same symptoms. Just pick up a medical book and read for symptoms for any illness in it. Before you are finished you will be diagnosing yourself with 20 different things! So the point is that unless you know for sure, through medical testing, that you have a sleep disorder then I would not be guessing at it.

Hallucination in a sleep disorder would not occur the way you explained. Some narcoleptics can actually have visual or audio hallucinations during the onset of sleep or while awakening from sleep (due to REM). When I was 19-20 I had a "few" occassions where while I was waking up I would here someone say my name in my ear, as though somebody was whispering my name into my ear. This happened a few times and always when I was waking up half alseep. This is ONE example out of many that narcoleptics could experience as an hallucination. But do not get this mixed up with the hallucinations of the mentally ill! Narcoleptics do not hear voices in their heads, ha-ha. However do you see what I mean by being careful about diagnosing yourself? If you go to a doctor and say to them, "I here someone saying my name in my ear when I wake up in the morning," you could easily be diagnosed as a mental case. So you need to be careful about jumping to conclusions and make SURE that you HAVE a real sleep disorder test done to confirm that this is what you REALLY have.

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