Understanding Narcolepsy and Cataplexy

"They will never completely get it, none of them.  It is just too completely distant from anything they know."

I'll just have to accept it.

Photosensitivity and retinoblastoma

https://wechope.org/research/sleep-photosensitivity-and-retinoblastoma/

Science of sleep

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/science-of-sleep/

Patient with fluoroquinolone toxicity

http://www.saferpills.org/patients-caregivers/

Why the FDA Should Be Charged With Murder

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/why-the-fda-should-be-charged-with-murder/

Fluoroquinolones Expert Panel: Dr Jess Armine and Erin Wilson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8HgZRwqrn0

Rx warning: Possible side effects from some antibiotics

http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/newscenter/2015/antibiotic-warning.html#.W75r2PlRdiF

Challenges a Dr faces in private practice

https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/01/plastic-surgeon-quits-couldnt-get-job-chick-fil.html

NC as bad as MS

Narcolepsy is uncommon and misunderstood. Most people know 

what Cystic Fibrosis is even though CF is less common than 

narcolepsy. Most people understand how debilitating Multiple

 Sclerosis yet most people don't understand that narcolepsy is just 

as debilitating a disability as MS and just as common. The general 

public values narcolepsy more as a punch line than as a real and

rare disease. Inaccurate fictional comedic depictions of narcolepsy

in the media have led most people to mistakenly believe that 

narcoleptics are people who suddenly fall asleep mid sentence 

while remaining standing and then awaken suddenly and are 

clueless as to what just happened. Newly diagnosed adults 

narcoleptics often find their struggles are more likely to be viewed 

as anxious plagiarisms of "real" biological disorders than to be 

viewed as challenging problems caused by a serious chronic 

disease.

http://everythingnarcolepsy.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-is-narcolepsy-easy-to-misdiagnose.html

Cervical Dystonia

https://youtu.be/ivTDrECRNr4

Hypocretin

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/447/eaao4953.full

Photophobia

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485070/

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/05/31/sleep-tool-for-creativity.aspx

Dr. Cutrer (3) - 4 Types of Migraine Auras

Vasospastic Disorder

http://www.upmc.com/Services/heart-vascular/conditions-treatments/Pages/vasospastic-disorder.aspx

How to increase orexin and decrease fatigue naturally

https://www.selfhacked.com/blog/how-to-increase-orexin-and-decrease-fatigue-naturally/

New clue to cause of human narcolepsy

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130703101609.htm

Loss of hypocretin (orexin) neurons with traumatic brain injury

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770195/

Sleep Disorders

Narcolepsy is uncommon and misunderstood.

Narcolepsy is uncommon and misunderstood. Most people know what Cystic Fibrosis is even though CF is less common than narcolepsy. Most people understand how debilitating Multiple Sclerosis yet most people don't understand that narcolepsy is just as debilitating a disability as MS and just as common. The general public values narcolepsy more as a punch line than as a real and rare disease. Inaccurate fictional comedic depictions of narcolepsy in the media have led most people to mistakenly believe that narcoleptics are people who suddenly fall asleep mid sentence while remaining standing and then awaken suddenly and are clueless as to what just happened. Newly diagnosed adults narcoleptics often find their struggles are more likely to be viewed as anxious plagiarisms of "real" biological disorders than to be viewed as challenging problems caused by a serious chronic disease.

 

Excerpted from 

http://everythingnarcolepsy.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-is-narcolepsy-easy-to-misdiagnose.html

 

For Multiple Sclerosis Patients, Sleep Disorders Such As Narcolepsy Should Also Be on the Clinician’s Radar

http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/2016/11/fmultiple-sclerosis-sleep-disorders-narcolepsy/

Avoid Sleepiness with Protein: New Science Shows Sugar Blocks Orexin Cells

https://breakingmuscle.com/fitness/avoid-sleepiness-with-protein-new-science-shows-sugar-blocks-orexin-cells

Orexin/hypocretin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid and characteristics of patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 with excessive daytime sleepiness

https://www.dovepress.com/orexinhypocretin-levels-in-the-cerebrospinal-fluid-and-characteristics-peer-reviewed-article-NDT

Orexin loss in Huntington's disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15525658/

Scientists Discover a Muscle Protein Helps Control Sleep

https://www.chronobiology.com/scientists-discover-muscle-protein-helps-control-sleep/

Constant Exposure to Artificial Light More Damaging Than You May Think

https://www.chronobiology.com/constant-exposure-artificial-light-damaging-may-think/