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Additionally, ask for the results of the sleep study and push for treatment. My partner had a sleep study done about 4 years ago where all they said was "hypersomnia", but after an appointment with a sleep doctor, he diagnosed her with type 1 narcolepsy with cataplexy. He was confused why the doctor who ordered the sleep study years before didn't make a treatment plan for the hypersonic. Now she is on 3 medications (armodafinil, Adderall, and xywav) to treat the narcolepsy and only in the last month with the addition on wxywav have we begun to see real change. It's incredible. Notable symptoms she has had for the last ~15 years include:

-excessive daytime sleepiness

-inability to feel rested after sleeping 10+ hours a night

-causing car accident

-losing muscle control when experiencing strong emotions (this is cataplexy and isn't true for all narcoleptics)

-sleep attacks (sudden onset of extreme sleepiness)



Narcolepsy can be an autoimmune disorder (type 1) or can be caused by head trauma (type 2).
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From what I’ve read, the cause of type 2 is unknown. I was diagnosed with type 2 because I don’t have cataplexy, but I know that studies established a relationship between the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (and the vaccine) and narcolepsy, due to similarities in the proteins in the virus itself and the cells that make hypocretin. I caught H1N1 in 2010, so I think that might be related.