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posted 01/02/2008, comments (2)

Narcolepsy and Me

I was born with narcolepsy, yet didn't know until i became very ill after a family vacation in 2004. I suffered for 17 long months with spells that resembled seizures,(yet the spells are not true siezures). During this time period no one seemed to know what was happening to me. Eventually after many test I recieved the diagonios of... Read more Chevron

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posted 12/27/2007, comment (1)

The Pickwick Club- Charles Dicken's Conrtibution to Sleep Research

Every year, as the Christmas season rolls around, There are numerous and varied showings of "A Christmas Carol." I'm sure you're all familiar with the story of the three ghosts, Tiny Tim, and the original Scrooge. It was written by Charles Dickens. Another story by Charles Dickens is very appropriate to our topic of... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/13/2007, comment (1)

Fall Back, Spring Ahead

The clocks went back an hour on November 4th. I often wonder what the purpose of this twice yearly muddling of the brain with time changes. The original purpose was to give farmers and other workers extra daylight hours during the summer, but now almost all machinery is equipped with bright lights. People can work day and night. Spring, I... Read more Chevron

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posted 11/03/2007, comments (0)

CORTISOL is the culprit of many sleep disorders

I have suffered from daytime sleepiness for 25 years. I really noticed it when I joined the Marines when I was 18. I use to think that I slept good. Took twenty years to take sleep study to find out that I huge number of partial awakenings ,so my sleep quality was poor. Took few more years to realize that high cortisol lead to anxiety and stress... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/07/2007, comment (1)

walking during sleep

im a hospital pharmacist and very keen to know about the problem from which my younger brother had to face few years ago.actually when he was 12 years old he had this habbit of walking during sleep so when in the morning we used to ask about him about last night event really he was completly unaware about it .but now he is 16 years old now... Read more Chevron

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