Narcolepsy Support Group

A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a disorder in the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders can interfere with mental and emotional function. If you are having trouble falling asleep or having some other kind of sleep disturbance, this group is for you.

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Narcolepsy Maybe?

canadianqueen
canadianqueen
I've not been diagnosed with Narcolepsy but was told I may suffer from it.

I wanted to know if anyone could relate to this because I feel I don't have Narcolepsy.

I dream all night long and wake up in the middle of my dreams, so I always remember them and they are very vivid. Some days I'm tired, but not enough to sleep but have no energy to do anything. At night, it takes me an hour to fall asleep and then I am waking up all night and dreaming the moment I fall asleep. There are moments where I am sleeping but I am awake at the same time because I can hear myself snoring, but I can not move...I also hear voices when I am trying to sleep or am just waking up

Is this common with Narcolepsy? because I always heard Narcolepsy made people fall asleep easily where with me it's not the case.
wenny
wenny
With Narcolepsy, you can fall asleep easlily when your not supposed to. Many of your symptoms do sound like N, but to know for sure you'll need to have a sleep test done. It's called a MSLT and it's really expensive unfortunatly. Regardless it sounds like you for sure have some sort of sleep disorder. :(
kittymomma
kittymomma
I am narcoleptic and sometimes I can't sleep and sometimes I pass out. All the things you described are things I experience too but not the awake but asleep thing. Sounds like sleep paralisys.
bmach29
bmach29
This is what I experience, and my doctor did say that I'm likely narcoleptic. I had an MST that highly suggests it. Definitely try to do a sleep study if you can, once I was able to calm the vivid dreams, I was able to actually get sleep and feel awake during the day
arfie
arfie
I am pretty convinced Narcolepsy runs through my family like a freight train. When my son (then 18) was diagnosed in 1998, Stanford University was running research looking for a narcolepsy genetic marker. I wanted to participate, but my son was hysterically resistant, so I dropped it.

I haven't bothered taking the test myself because, near as I can tell, the current treatment for Narcolepsy is still the same basic treatment as what I was/am already receiving for bi-polar. I have better things to do than go shopping for new names for whatever ails me. Don't give me new names. I wants new solutions.
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