cataplexy

I take an orphan drug myself to treat cataplexy/narcolepsy.

I also found that part very dramatic as someone who has a GHB prescription for cataplexy.

Perhaps that the excessive laughing and the cataplexy are both symptoms of the underlying thing.

If they weren't, then I guess some additional factor must come into play for triggering cataplexy?

Turns out that's not actually narcolepsy but a specific form of cataplexy.

The fact that Kamiyah had most of her episodes of weakness when she was happy was suggestive of cataplexy.

My son, for example, has very strong narcolepsy but relatively mild cataplexy.

If you don't have group insurance or if narcolepsy/cataplexy are pre-existing conditions for your insurance, then Xyrem will set you back around $50k to $80k a year last time I checked.

I was actually wondering about this because both the Spanish Flu and the 2009 H1N1 pandemics left life-long brain damage for some survivors in the form of narcolepsy with cataplexy.

I don't know if I have cataplexy, certainly not the severe form, but I think that I get weakness in the knees under influence of strong emotions which according to internet is basically mild cataplexy.

In addition, most of those with narcolepsy experience something known as cataplexy — sudden transient muscle weakness episodes often caused by strong, usually positive, emotions.