​Sleep Disorders Center of Santa Maria

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SYMPTOMS OF NARCOLEPSY


  • Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), an overwhelming sense of tiredness and fatigue throughout the day
  • Poor quality of sleep because the sleep wake patterns are disrupted
  • Micro-naps (falling asleep for a few seconds) and sleep attacks (an overwhelming urge to sleep)
  • Abnormal REM (dream sleep), detectable only by sleep lab tests
  • REM intrusion into daytime wakefulness
  • Cataplexy, events during which a person has no reflex or voluntary muscle control. For example knees buckle and even give way when experiencing a strong emotion “ laughter, joy, surprise, anger “A or head drops or jaw goes slack from the same kind of stimuli
  • Hypnogogic hallucinations, events of vivid audio and visual events that a person with narcolepsy experiences while falling asleep, or while awakening
  • Sleep paralysis, a limpness in the body associated with REM sleep resulting in temporary paralysis when the individual is falling asleep, or awakening

SYMPTOMS OF NARCOLEPSY

WHAT ARE SOME SYMPTOMS OF NARCOLEPSY?


There are five main symptoms of narcolepsy


  1. Excessive daytime sleepiness
  2. Disrupted sleep
  3. Cataplexy
  4. Hypnogogic hallucinations
  5. Sleep paralysis