How To Identify Signs And Symptoms Of Narcolepsy?

Are you feeling that you are suffering with narcolepsy?

Narcolepsy is a condition in which your body is unable to regulate a healthy sleep cycle.

Here are signs and symptoms to identify that you are suffering with narcolepsy.

Signs and symptoms of narcolepsy:

• REM sleep or dreaming do not occur until sixty to ninety minutes, if you dream after ten to twenty minutes when you lay down, you may be narcoleptic. If your doctor suspects narcolepsy, you will be diagnosed in the sleep clinic during daytime and instructed to take a nap for 20 minutes for every one and half hour. Doctor will monitor after each nap whether you went to sleep and you went to REM. They will ask about the dreams and whether you have remembered. You have to take total five naps. If you dream during naps, then you might have narcolepsy.
• Your body uses sleep as a way to recharge the system. If you do not feel refreshed waking up often or if your sleep does not give energy, then you may have some problem with sleep. Remember when you woke up feeling refreshed. For how much time do you feel refreshed and how long it did it last? If you have ever wake up feeling refreshed, then you have narcolepsy.
• Narcolepsy is a condition characterized by feeling sleepiness all the day. You won’t sleep randomly, but just fall asleep when you let yourself to sleep. If you have this type of condition, then you have narcolepsy.
• If you have fallen asleep doing something without remembering them or if you cannot keep your eyes open when you are getting ready, you may be suffering from narcolepsy. It may not be narcolepsy, but falling asleep while doing some work is not an easy thing to take.
• The major sign of narcolepsy is sleep paralysis. In a normal sleep cycle, you enter into REM sleep, the deep stage of sleep after one and half hour. You dream during REM sleep and you are unable to move during this period to prevent from acting out your dreams. If you have narcolepsy, you have irregular sleep cycle which makes to enter into REM sleep as soon as you sleep and you wake up from REM sleep frequently. This makes you to wake up paralyzed.
• If you are suffering with narcolepsy, your sleep cycle is irregular and you do not wake up feeling refreshed. To clear the unrefreshed feeling, you turn to a stimulant to wake up your body. To stimulate, you drink abnormally large amount of caffeine to feel refreshed in the morning [Caffeine and Sleep]. This is one condition to visit doctor to diagnose for narcolepsy.
• If you are suffering from muscle weakness which is known as cataplexy, a symptom of narcolepsy, which occurs in the buckling of the knees, you will fall to the ground in a split of second without warning. This incidence is usually associated with intense emotions. You may think that it is normal and don’t go to a doctor. If it had happened to you, do not neglect and see the doctor for treatment.