Narcolepsy (Sleeping Sickness)

Almost everyone has experienced it themselves: you sit in a long meeting or attend a lecture, and slowly your eyes fall shut and you nod off. Even a certain sleepiness after a sumptuous lunch, the so-called soup coma, is nothing out of the ordinary. However, if sleep often overtakes you completely unprepared and uncontrollably during … Narcolepsy (Sleeping Sickness)

Symptoms of Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy symptoms are usually differentiated based on four different main symptoms. These four main narcolepsy symptoms are also named as symptom complex or narcoleptic tetrad. These four symptoms of narcolepsy are sleep compulsions, cataplexies, abnormal sleep patterns, and sleep paralysis. Narcolepsy symptom #1: sleep compulsion. Sleeping sickness (popularly known as compulsive slumbering) is often initially … Symptoms of Narcolepsy