Sentences with phrase «from narcolepsy»

Perich claimed she was fired because she pursued a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act, alleging she suffered from narcolepsy.

According to Fox 7 News, Ladybird acted as a service dog to the woman, who suffered from narcolepsy and seizures.

Tricyclic antidepressants can be prescribed, especially if you suffer from narcolepsy.

Pro-golfer Nicole Jeray suffers from narcolepsy, but she doesn't let the disorder interfere with her game on the green.

The millions of people who suffer from narcolepsy might have their immune system to blame.

That knowledge in turn promises to pave the way for more precise treatments and stronger relief from narcolepsy's debilitating symptoms.

Interestingly, those who suffer from narcolepsy, a disease in which people are excessively tired and may spontaneously fall asleep during the day, also lack orexin due to a breakdown in the brain cells that produce it.

Not exact matches

Now I'm 62 and recovering from 4 different autoimmune disorders: Hashimotos thyroiditis, celiac disease, narcolepsy, and chronic fatigue syndrome from Epstein Barr virus.

My first benefitted immensely from bed sharing, and being a new mom with narcolepsy, I felt that the extra sleep I got once I gave in to what felt natural, bed sharing, was safer than falling asleep inadvertently when holding the baby and nursing or sitting.

Of the $ 2,836,088 in «direct public support» the NSF received in 2005 (the most recent IRS disclosure I could find), it seems that $ 470,000 came from Pfizer, which in 2005 was primping for the debut of the sleep - aid drug Indiplon, which it has since dropped; $ 299,000 came from GlaxoSmithKline, makers of Sominex; $ 152,000 from King Pharmaceuticals (Sonata); $ 596,670 from Sanofi Aventis (Ambien); $ 471,800 from Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Rozerem); $ 133,183 from Sepracor (Lunesta); $ 100,000 from the hepcats over at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, who make the narcolepsy drug Xyrem; and $ 100,000 from Cephalon, maker of another drug used for narcolepsy, Provigil.

The visitors, members of a narcolepsy support group from California's East Bay area, laughed, then caught themselves and awww - ed in sympathy.

In recent sleep lab studies of 600 people age 30 or older, Mignot was surprised to find that 1 percent — or 20 times as many as with classic narcolepsy — suffered from inordinate sleepiness, had a high frequency of the autoimmune marker linked to narcolepsy, and went very rapidly into REM when they napped.

Researchers suspect an autoimmune reaction is to blame because many people who develop narcolepsy — and just about everyone with the vaccine - associated form — have a specific variant in a gene in the HLA family, which helps the body distinguish its own proteins from those made by microbial invaders.

Cases of narcolepsy increased after the 2009 pandemic in China, where Pandemrix wasn't used, and researchers discovered that serum from some H1N1 influenza patients does bind to the hypo cretin receptor.

In the new work, the researchers added serum from Finnish narcolepsy patients who had received Pandemrix to cells that were engineered to display human hypo cretin receptor 2 on their surface.

The researchers analyzed DNA from nearly 4000 participants, all of whom shared the same narcolepsy - linked HLA but only about half of whom had narcolepsy.

Examples would be insomnia from hormone imbalances and the biochemical imbalances that cause depression, sleep apnea (the windpipe collapses during sleep blocking air flow which causes snoring which wakes you up) and narcolepsy (uncontrollable bouts of sleep during the day).

If you suffer from conditions such as narcolepsy or sleep apnea, then you should absolutely consult a doctor about your treatment options and possibly discuss the use of Provigil.

The reasoning being that it is made for those who suffer specifically from certain sleep related conditions like narcolepsy or sleep apnea, which causes them to experience extreme sleepiness or tiredness during the day.

I have been on medication for the past 15 years for restless leg syndrome and narcolepsy so I subtracted 10 from 131.

While I do think I benefitted from entering into ketosis, I would not necessarily recommend a Ketogenic diet to patients unless to achieve some sort of therapeutic goal, such as improved insulin resistance, or for adjunct cancer care, to reduce inflammation, or to improve severe depression, migraines, or narcolepsy.

I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Celiac, narcolepsy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from Epstein - Barr virus.

Attacks of narcolepsy in dogs and of cataplexy in dogs are both sudden in onset, they typically last from a few seconds to a few minutes, and they resolve spontaneously.

Travis Collinson has been featured in group exhibition throughout the country most recently in Look at me: Portraiture from Manet to Present at Leila Heller Gallery in New York and a solo exhibition at Dominican University titled Narcolepsy in Pink.

I'm currently writing cover letters for several different jobs and I believe my experience with narcolepsy, especially the struggles before being diagnosed and medicated, have greatly shaped me into the hard worker I am today, and I believe this example would distinguish myself from other candidates.