How can cataplexy be improved?

It's like narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is manifested as uncontrollable sleepiness during the day, including in meetings or classes, and even during exams and driving. At the same time, narcolepsy may also be accompanied by cataplexy attacks, cataplexy is when you are happy or excited, nervous, sudden local muscle weakness, sometimes neck muscle weakness, sometimes upper limb weakness, and some lower limb weakness, although it is called cataplexy, however, many people do not actually fall.

Some patients also have nocturnal hallucinations, including visual and auditory hallucinations. Some people also have sleep paralysis, that is, ghost pressing, feeling that the brain is awake, but the limbs cannot move at all, which is narcolepsy. In the international classification of diagnosis, narcolepsy is divided into type and type, type is narcolepsy with cataplexy, and type is narcolepsy without cataplexy.

Because the disease is a lifelong disease, there is currently no way to do it. However, patients can be treated with drugs, cognitive behavior, and other methods**, which can play a certain role in alleviating the condition. The main drugs for this disease are methylphenidate hydrochloride and modafinil.

Among them, methylphenidate hydrochloride is one of the main drugs for hyperactive attention deficit syndrome in children, and it is also the largest prescription drug for this disease in the world, which can effectively improve the symptoms of drowsiness in patients. Modafinil is the first-line drug for this disease, but its wakefulness mechanism is unknown, and it may be related to the inhibition of dopamine reuptake. In addition, this drug does not improve cataplexy.

The cognitive behavior** is to provide necessary counseling to the patient, so that the patient has a scientific understanding of the disease and establishes the correct way to deal with it. In addition, it is important to note that patients should avoid work that requires constant attention for long periods of time, such as driving, transportation, and important security guard positions. At the same time, it is also necessary to develop the habit of taking a regular nap, develop a regular sleep schedule, and avoid frequent time zone changes.

In general, narcolepsy cannot be abandoned, and the disease can only be treated with drugs such as modafinil, armodafinil, sodium oxybate, methylphenidate hydrochloride, or cognitive-behavioral** to improve symptoms. However, because the disease is a lifelong disease, patients have to accept long-term drugs, so when choosing drugs, clinicians and patients must consider the drug that may be carried, and try to choose the smallest drug.

Analysis: Hello your symptoms are not very common sleep disorders, and it may also be narcolepsy.

Guidance: I suggest that you go to a larger hospital to check the long-range EEG to monitor sleep and see the sleep cycle, it is best to check the head MRI, and try to live a regular life as much as possible.

When you are sleepy, it is probably because of the thick blood or the lack of blood supply to the heart and brain, and you need to go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

You just get some sleep - don't worry about anything else, eat and drink better, make the bed soft - it's better to find another woman or something (ignore the last sentence.)