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Common Narcolepsy Stigma I’ve Received/Experienced
Hello! Long time no see. I’ve been slow to post lately because I’ve been dealing with my tardive dyskinesia and going on vacation. Anyway, posts are back now! As it says in the title, I will be talking about common narcolepsy stigma I’ve experienced. I think some of these individuals are coming from the right…
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How the combination of Lumryz and an antipsychotic caused me to develop Tardive Dyskinesia
Hello everyone! This post is a little different. It’s not explicitly related to narcolepsy, rather more so in combination with bipolar disorder. I am diagnosed with bipolar disorder type 2, and I took an antipsychotic along with a mood stabilizer to treat it. However, once I was diagnosed with narcolepsy and started taking Lumryz, a…
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Sleep Routine and Sleep Experience Before and After Medication
Hello everyone! I’d thought I’d talk about how I’d experience sleep and how I would wind down for sleep, and how that’s different before and after being medicated. For a little information about my medication, I am on a sodium oxybate called Lumryz. There are other sodium oxybate medications like Xywav and Xyrem, but their…
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A Normal School Day With Narcolepsy
Hello everyone! Today I’d thought I’d share what a normal school day was like for me with narcolepsy. I go to a dual enrollment school where we actually leave the high school on a bus to go take classes at a local college. However, classes don’t start until 9:30 am, so we stay at the…
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My Experience With Getting Diagnosed
Hello everyone! I was diagnosed with narcolepsy in late 2024. This was after the sleep study and various tests, which I’ll explain here. I was really lucky to see a sleep specialist + neurologist so quickly, as many of the ones that me and my parents looked at were booked very far out. Like months.…
A Shade of Sleep 