Brain Explosion

Okay! Where to even begin.

        Narcoleptic
           That's what I am...... Oh plus I have cataplexy. Fun....

      N.   O.    T. 

Medication issues since forever....
     When my oldest was in kindergarten I began the road of stimulants to hopefully allow me to wake up in time to get her to school on time..... Ha

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Funny. I put my self through terrible headaches, nausea, actual vomiting.....

I lost over 50 pounds..... I was miserable.

       I only ate maybe once a day.

Fast forward one year from "medicine cocktail" being found and I'm in the same, if not a worse boat?! !?

Begins  another road of medication changes and all new resulting side effect.

Increased pulse rate... Most recently 129bpm. This is a resting heart rate!!!!!!

Increased blood pressure

Inability to breath

It gets so exhausting.
        I bet you are exhausted just reading this... 

We have progressed to a point where I have a cataplexy episode daily. I have an almost constant pain in my gloriously lacking brain on the left side behind my eyebrow. My right leg, behind the knee hurts constantly....sometimes through the entire leg..... I can't sleep when I should sleep and I sleep when I shouldn't. My speech has gone slurred a few times. Basically its been a roller coaster of side effects that will have to become part of life.

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