Melatonin activates your natural sleep impulses, and when not properly regulated, causes you to feel sleepy when you shouldn't and also prevents you from staying alert when you should be. Some of the functions of these chemicals involve muscle paralysis to prevent you from acting out your dreams, which causes cataplexy as well as sleep paralysis and the inability to move during a hypnagogic hallucination. When you are deficient in this protein these chemicals run rampant in your brain and can be released in varying amounts at any given time. Hypocretin works in your hypothalamus by regulating chemicals that cause you to fall asleep and remain awake. It is a lack of a protein in your brain called hypocretin, believed to be destroyed by your immune system. Also whatever you're going through make sure you speak up that is one thing I have learned. Good Luck! I am just sharing my tale because of learned from others that walked before me. Just start searching the web there is tons of great info and not so great also. I would recommend asking your neurologist and also visting the narcolepsy network which is website similar to this one in that it is designed as way for others to communicate and learn about narcolepsy. the same question when I got diagnosed w/ narcolepsy w/o cataplexy and he stated also the same info. Narcolepsy or really any sleep disorder is hard to disgnose just like any other complicated disorder like epilepsy. I was having issues with my sleep again and was seeing a new sleep doctor, many are known as pulmonologist. I went to my neurologist I asked if I was misdiagnosed or what? He said no that all of my eeg's starting from 14 until current showed the spiked brain waves which aligns with someone who has epilepsy. I had already had 2 sleep studies done starting the first starting at age 19 but not the m.l.t.s. at 14 and by then 26 w/ narcolepsy w/o cateplexy. I do not know when that would be required. There is some type of blood testing for hla but I have not had that done. Narcolepsy is not diagnosed with an eeg but most sleep dr's will use a multi latency sleep study. Narcolepsy can sometimes be misdignosed as epilepsy due to when a person falls out the cataplexy is mistaken for a seizure. The disorder seems to reside in the brain-stem in regions that regulate the phases of sleep." p. Martin: I am not aware of any convincing evidence for direct hypothalamic involvement in narcolepsy. Then a quote I came across searching articles by Dick Frans Swaab, "The Human Hypothalamus In Health and Disease: proceedings of the 17th.cited "J.B. Sometimes epilepsy can masquerade like, or imitate, narcolepsy, but narcolepsy is much more infrequent than epilepsy (about 0.05% in Caucasians but may be higher in other populations, "Imitators of Epilepsy" by Kaplan and Fisher (2005) p.
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