Ghb For Narcolepsy?

[Homicidalheathen]

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/whatisn...erapedrug_2.htm

Um just......no. It makes ya sick and makes you fall alseep or worse......your like half sleepwalking half not.

What are they thinking?

Recently I had to try a couple different types of amphetamines because I couldn't take the sleep paralysis anymore and/or falling asleep while driving or doing meanial tasks or certain stress triggers.

And those suck too. Constipation...heart palpitations.....as I have an irregular heart beat and diverticulitis. So I am at a loss now. Not drinking alcohol or caffine is helping allot.

Does anyone know any herbal and/or natural homeopathic remedies for sleep disorders? Not just herbs but even breathing excersizes....yoga....anything!

Something for sleep paralysis in particular. I HATE that. It feels like something evil has ahold of you and won't let you go.

"Hypnogogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations

Hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are not peculiar to narcolepsy, though they occur at a very high rate of frequency in most cases of narcolepsy. However, they are the predominant subsymptom in only an estimated 5 percent of narcolepsy patients and appear in other disorders as well. Hypnogogic hallucinations occur while falling asleep, and hypnopompic hallucinations upon awakening. Both last a few minutes. The hallucinations can be visual, auditory, or tactile and often frighten or disconcert the patient with terrifying shapes and noises. It is possible to wake up a patient during hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations without further distressing them.

These hallucinations are similar to nightmares, in that they are typically more intense, and their effects last longer than mild dreams or daydreams. In the past, patients who suffered from hallucinations were sometimes misdiagnosed as schizophrenic.

Sleep Paralysis

Sleep paralysis, the inability to move immediately before falling asleep or upon awakening, has been described and documented since the early 19th century. People who experience sleep paralysis have described feeling afraid, as if some person or creature were sitting on their chest, holding them down.

Like hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations, sleep paralysis is a nonexclusive secondary symptom of narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis usually lasts from a few seconds to 30 minutes and is usually accompanied by hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations. Like hallucinations, sleep paralysis can be alleviated temporarily if an observer intervenes and wakes up the patient. "

I feel like crying out so someone will wake me up a bit more so I can come out of it but can't move anything and it feels like I can't even breathe.

Someone can be sitting there right next to me but I can't move or totally wake up.

And I sleep talk a bit more again too....but I am thankfully not walking again yet. Think I have that under control. Only happens when I am totally stressed.

Even the natural stuff effects guts and heart.

Seems whatever works for this will effect those too no matter what.

http://www.herbs2000.com/vitamins/v_choline.htm

http://www.herbs2000.com/disorders/narcolepsy.htm

GHB could not possibly be good for Narcolepsy. I should know. I have done every street drug out there willingly or unwillingly at some point in my life. I don't see how it could help at all.

[sass_in_the_pants]

I don't know what your lifestyle is like, but I know you were talking about doing a detox sort of thing - not smoking and not drinking help IMMENSELY in getting a good night's sleep, so does a good diet and exercise. Seriously, my friend did all of these crazy things for his sleep disorders, but then once he quit smoking, BAM, sleeping wasn't a problem anymore.

[Homicidalheathen]

its helping but not enough....the sleep paralysis is what I want to get rid of. Its just such a creepy feeling.

[Marblez]

I have narcolepsy with all the goodies. Daytime sleep attacks, sleep paralysis, cataplexy, hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations. I know exactly what you mean. Sleep paralysis is terrifying. I find that it increases a thousand-fold when I am under emotional stress. I don't know about you but mine is always combined with an hallucination (i.e. nightmare). Frequently it involves me being overtaken by a negative force. Rarely does it ever happen that I cannot pinpoint a major stressor in my life. Once I work that out, I don't have them for a while.

Mine is not frequent enough for me to take an additional medication to stave them off. Keep in mind that when sleep paralysis happens you are at least partially conscious. What I will say has DEFINITELY helped me with dealing with them is to consciously recognize when it is happening and allow myself to just give in to the experience and fall back asleep. The more I try to fight the paralysis, the more stress feeds into whatever nightmare that I am having. Usually I will wake up without it occurring again.

As for the waking time, I highly recommend Provigil. It was a life saver. It took some time for me to regulate my sleeping habits once I was on it but that has made all the difference. Now that I was no longer sleeping all the damn day, I was able to get done what needed to be done so that I could get to sleep at a regular time. During my pregnancy, it is not so much of a problem without the Provigil - but then again, pregnant women are supposed to be tired, right? And I have a very good support person at home. Once the babies are delivered, I will start again.

Ultimately the most significant affect has been to regulate my sleep patterns, un

How interesting that we both have narcolepsy and (very soon) we will both have delivered twins.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Provigil? My doctor just recently threw that into the mass-drug-cocktail of stuff im on as i was complaining about basically being a zombie due to the after-effects of all the anxiety/headache medication.

I'm not always sure what any of this stuff is doing because its such a complex mix, who the hell knows whats going on. But it does seem to "wake me up".

My problelm is im feeling generally like the meds are fairly futile and so i dont take them on a regular sechedule like i should.

[Marblez]

Troy, Provigil gives me headaches when I first start using it, they eventually go away with regular use. If I skip a few days, they come back. It would probably be advised to take them as prescribed to avoid the temporary side effects.

[Homicidalheathen]

Yah I am going to try that one next. I was just afraid because I used to have migraines.

Provigil

Sometimes side effects dont bother me at all......you never know.