Narcolepsy: A Teenager’s Story
Imagine watching movies with friends, not knowing that you have narcolepsy and struggling to stay awake. Your eyes keep rolling and you keep fighting to stay awake. Yet you cannot.…
Imagine watching movies with friends, not knowing that you have narcolepsy and struggling to stay awake. Your eyes keep rolling and you keep fighting to stay awake. Yet you cannot.…
It’s a plot device. It’s a joke to be exploited by comedians. It shows up as the punchline in movie after movie. As soon as it comes out that a…
I read a pretty cool short and sweet article that you need to check out, written by a person who is living with narcolepsy. I’m so impressed by how well…
You brush your teeth, put on your pajamas and climb into bed. Someone attaches wires and electrodes to your head, chest and legs. You drift to sleep under the watchful…
How would you feel if someone you love, someone you care about more than anything else in the world, needed brain surgery to remove a tumor and, right as that…
Patient Worthy had the privilege of sitting down with Kristina, a wife, mother and student, and hearing about her journey with Narcolepsy. Kristina found out she had narcolepsy and had…
When Patient Worthy met with Kristina to hear about her journey with narcolepsy she was happy to put her story out there for more reasons than one. She was hopeful…
Unfortunately, stigma is something many patients are all too familiar with. Patients with chronic pain may be labeled as drug seekers. Patients who occasionally need assistance walking and sometimes don't…
Kristina is the epitome of resilience in the face of Narcolepsy. Kristina was undiagnosed for years and was told her symptoms could be explained by depression and laziness. Now she…
After years of being undiagnosed and even called lazy, Kristina finally learned she had narcolepsy. She's still learning how to best manage her life, with a husband and two kids,…
Way to go, Vice magazine/website! A young guy trying to live a normal life with narcolepsy needs a tightly-regulated, prescription medication—that also happens to be a hot club drug—to function.…