Living with narcolepsy
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Terrence F.1 Comment
The onset of narcolepsy for most folks is in the teen age years. Mine started when I was six years old. i would fall asleep while walking down the street with my two older sisters holding ...
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Living with Narcolepsy
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Nicole E.
... ity for cheap laughs. My two best friends immediately e-mailed me a cartoon depicting a job applicant sleeping in an interview and the employer saying, “It says here you have narcolepsy. What’s that?” and then assured me that they would be more than willing to hold my ponytail at dinner to keep my forehead from hitting the table. Another friend t ...
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Bowling With Narcolepsy
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netventures
What’s more fun than a night out with the guys at the bowling alley? A night out at the bowling alley when one of the guys has narcolepsy. Check out this video where a guy falls fast asleep mid-bowl. And, being the good friends that they are, his buddies just laugh, drag him out of the way, and keep ...
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Drugs for Narcolepsy
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Med RX
Here is a list of drugs and medications that are commonly prescribed to treat Narcolepsy: Gamma-hydroxybutyrate Methylphenidate Modafinil Provigil Xyrem These are just some of the drugs and medications that are often used to treat Narcolepsy.If you ...
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Treatments for Narcolepsy
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Medical Team2 Comments
Here is a list of treatments and procedures that are commonly used to treat Narcolepsy: Avoid driving Avoid operating machinery Avoid scuba diving Avoid swimming Avoiding over-stimulation Clomipramine Dexamphetamine Imipramine Modafinil (Provi ...
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What is Narcolepsy?
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SleepTeam ..
ANNOUNCER: Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder that be debilitating. JOSE S. LOREDO, MD, MPH: Oftentimes, patients who are severely affected cannot drive, cannot hold jobs that requi ...
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Tests & Diagnostics for Narcolepsy
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Disease Fighter
Here is a list of some of the common tests and diagnostics for Narcolepsy: Multiple sleep latency test Polysomnogram Sleep Sleep Apnea Of course, these are just some of the common tests and diagnostics for Narcolepsy.You can connect ...
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Voices of Narcolepsy: An Aberration Link
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Penelope P.
The protagonist of my novel, Aberrations, has narcolepsy. I chose to write about the condition because it's not only fascinating and poorly understood, it's also a great metaphor for how we all are, at times, in jeopardy ...
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Elephantitis, auras, chuntering and narcolepsy
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Laura
... ing. Of course I was hallucinating. Finally I got my flight. It was pain free and I slept in a bobbing head fashion on and off. I think the woman next to me thought I had narcolepsy. In desperate anticipation of seeing my children I got my 100th and final wind. My bag couldn’t come out on the conveyor belt fast enough and I nearly sprinted th ...
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