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Narcolepsy is the second leading cause of excessive daytime
sleepiness
. Narcolepsy occurs in approximately 1 person per thousand. In many cases, however, diagnosis is not made until many years after the onset of symptoms due to the fact that patients assume that sleepiness is not indicative of a
disease
. Narcolepsy is a very disabling and underdiagnosed
illness
. The effect of narcolepsy on its victims is devastating. Studies have shown that even after treatment narcoleptic patients are often markedly psychosocially impaired. A large majority of narcoleptic patients are still undiagnosed, and most narcoleptic people are diagnosed after 14 years of syptoms. Since the
symptoms
of narcolepsy usually appear during adolescence, most narcoleptic people are diagnosed too late to prevent the dramatic impact of the disease. The main symptoms of narcolepsy are excessive daytime sleepiness and abnormal
REM
sleep. Narcolepsy is a serious and common medical problem. Other disabling symptoms of narcolepsy are sleep
paralysis
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cataplexy
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hypnagogic
hallucinations, are pathological equivalents of REM sleep. Narcolepsy can be diagnosed using specific medical procedures. The diagnosis of narcolepsy is usually easy if all the symptoms of the illness are present. However, the symptoms of dissociated REM sleep such as cataplexy are mild.
Diagnosis
usually comes from a nocturnal polysomnogram and a multiple sleep latency test (MSLT).
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Throughout my life (since age seven), I've suffered
faint
ing spells,
depression
, and even
seizure
s, all of which had a hugely negative impact on both my grades and my social life - and which went un
diagnosed
until age twenty, when a correct diagnosis of narcolepsy brought medication and treatment. The medication,
Provigil
, has had a
profound
ly
positive
effect - I can
concentrate
for more than a few minutes at a time, can stay awake and alert for more than just an hour or two, can study and retain knowledge - all things that the disease had debilitating effects on for nearly all of my life. I do not feel it to be an
exaggeration
to say that much of my
academic
,
social
, and
emotional life
before Provigil was more representative of the disease than of my own
personality
and
intellect
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