misdiagnosed

Narcolepsy: my complicated and invisible disorder.

Allison / October 12, 2018

Ignorance is bliss One of my first exposures to understanding narcolepsy was a Youtube video of a dog with narcolepsy. The video shows the dog experiencing loss of muscle of control and inaccurately describes the symptom as an inability to stay awake at any given moment. I used to not know how misleading these media […]

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One year misdiagnosed

Allison / November 25, 2017

During my first year of suffering from narcolepsy, I was misdiagnosed with mono. Thankfully, it only took one year from my first narcolepsy symptoms for my mom and I to figure it out. I was sixteen years old when I first started developing narcolepsy symptoms. It was the late fall of my sophomore year of

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