Cataplexy From Laughter - Full Version

My friend has Narcolepsy with Cataplexy and one of his triggers is laughter. Narcolepsy is a neurological sleeping disorder and cataplexy is the unwanted onset of a stage of sleep paralysis that occurs while a Narcoleptic is awake. Visit NarcolepsyNetwork.org for more info on Narcolepsy

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Narcolepsy
• cataplexy
• laughing

[spessoney]

thank you for the awesome example of cataplexy! I just really want to know what was so funny now. It must have been awesome. :) I have cataplexy from fear, losing too much sleep, and once flat out in Wal-Mart. I blame Wal-Mart.

[thealiecat]

@spessoney Honestly I don't remember what we were laughing about, I think we just got the giggles and then he kept saying "I'm dying" and it was just such a funny wrong thing to say when you know you're about to have a paralysis attack that makes it look to other people like you're dead, especially when the general public is so quick to call 911 or try CPR on a narcoleptic!

[thealiecat]

@spessoney Honestly I don't remember what we were laughing about, I think we just got the giggles and then he kept saying "I'm dying" and it was just such a funny wrong thing to say when you know you're about to have a paralysis attack that makes it look to other people like you're dead, especially when the general public is so quick to call 911 or try CPR on a narcoleptic!

[daud8472]

I also have N/C but there is no way I can laugh like that before a cataplexy attack.

[thealiecat]

@daud8472 Xyrem gives cataplectic narcoleptics a lot more emotional wiggle room to work with before an amotion is just too strong and a C attack happens

[NarcolepticSuperman]

@AshCanVlog hahah thanks lol . fear and happiness excitement are my tirggers . i also have PTSD and PTSD and N+C dont mix lol so like you , i have to find my center and stay calm within any bad situation or in an exciting one. when i laugh that hard as you see in this vid above lol i dont go out right a way, but it takes me out eventually I rather laugh than cry :)

[NarcolepticSuperman]

@JuiceBoxLoveX the firends you have now from when you started to get C, and have stayed your friend this whole time and still are, those are true friends , I lost friends to my N+C when it first started happening. I may have lost some , but over the years I gained more and still have friends I went to school with still hang out and have fun to this day. :) living with N+C or just C does show you alot and helps you really learn a lot of things about our minds and body's

[JuiceBoxLoveX]

LOL I have this, but just cataplexy. My finace loves to trigger mine when his friends are over. But now that I'm older I can control it and it only really hits me when I'm really tired.

My friends freakout the first time it happens . 

[AshCanVlog]

I ove how you wake up with that smirk, lol. I get cataplexy symptoms from fear and things like that... Sometimes laughing too hard, getting super mad, mostly sudden onset fear though and it's caused by my POTs. I'll pass out cold, lol.