Cataplexy eyes2/13/2024 We each will describe how it feels, differently, as we each will also have different emotion/s that trigger it, as well as an entirely different varying experience with how it effects us, when it effects us, etc. There's an internal plethora of sensations, overwhelming like.įor years I've described how mine feel, to not be at all a 'muscle weakness' sort of sensation, but rather 'muscle interference combined with inner wave like rushing sensations through a section of or entire body, a inner flickering of muscles like sensation/s.' Perhaps it could be compared to like what, vertigo feels like when up too high. I haven’t had a cataplexy since getting into a clinical trial after that, so here’s hoping those were just some unique events.ĭizzy and/or faint, no not like that for me. No, cataplexy didn’t start off one way (I mean, never any dizziness) and change for me… other than it got much worse recently in that it was lasting a long period of time which had ER docs thinking stroke. But, in the case of sleep paralysis, because we’re coming out of sleep as it happens, there’s no experience of losing muscle tone (and no dizziness, for me anyway). I also usually describe it as being a marionette that has had some or all the strings cut.Īs for sleep paralysis, I think OP is correct that that is cataplexy because technically everyone has cataplexy to stop them from acting out dreams, it’s just people with N who have it while they’re awake. I agree that vertigo gives dizziness but I can still try to control my muscles, with cataplexy I cannot control all or some but there is no dizziness. I also have vertigo often, as well as cataplexy.
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