I have been narcoleptic since high school. I was only diagnosed with it 8 years ago (I am ~40), so I actually lived with it for around ~15 years undiagnosed. In that time, I graduated high school, college, and went into a career.

So, with the preliminaries out of the way, and in a effort to contribute to the AMA comm:

AMA

  • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Stimulants: amphetamines in the morning, and a strong sedative for night time. I am actually taking a lot less amphetamines since losing more weight and getting healthier. I recently started the sedative, which allows me to take even less by making me sleep longer. Narcoleptics go into REM too fast, which means their sleep cycle is over quick, and it goes quickly past the deep sleep stage, which is really beneficial to the body (and negative to get less of it like a narcoleptic does).