One of my family members is very anti-Trump (she thinks he is the anti-Christ), pro-Biden (kinda, these days), and very much pro-"vaccine."
So I've been telling her I've been taking herbal supplements and 100's year old medication like methylene blue and, licorice, casuticum, passionflower, etc. for my narcolepsy.
And I've been really drilling in the term "guinea pig" as to what I'm doing to my body.
This is all true, mind you, because I intend to find a treatment for my narcolepsy that doesn't cost my insurance $5700 every month.
So I've been saying "Before I recommend anything to anyone, I guinea pig myself so I know its safe. I'm very methodical and increase doses until I show symptoms, and then weigh the symptoms with any noticeable benefits."
I've had this conversation with her about four times now, and she always says the same thing: "I wish you wouldn't experiment on yourself like that, you don't know what these drugs can do to you."
We don't bring up the clot shot, so I have yet to throw that back in her face when it comes to a mRNA experimental drug that has only been around less than two years.
The ones I'm taking have been around either since the late 1800's or from the start of human history. The effects are very well documented, if you're willing to look through early 1900's manuscripts. The FDA bans modern studies on any herbal supplements thanks to Big Pharma's lobbying.
Yup... I think I'm game-set-match for some major KEKs if she ever presses into it.
But... I guess she may not, considering I've already verifiably proven my narcolepsy was likely from the meningitis vaccine and exacerbated by the H1N1 vaccine. She gets real quiet, now, when I bring it up...
https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/prescription-drugs/gardasil-lawsuit/
The Gardasil vaccine, manufactured by Merck & Co., was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006 for use in preventing infection from only a few of the hundreds of types of human papillomavirus (HPV). Since hitting the market, however, thousands of adolescents and adults have reported serious and disabling Gardasil side effects after receiving the HPV vaccine. The most prominent among these side effects is postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.14413
But the results do not fully explain the Pandemrix mystery, because other flu vaccines contained the same proteins but did not lead to a spike in narcolepsy cases.
Damned liars.
Pandemrix was simply the only one which enough stink was raised about it to get it on the books. All H1N1 vaccines saw an uptick in narcolepsy, but the books have been well doctored since 2019 and onwards. Some of my old go-to sources have been scrubbed, and they even tried to rewrite history by saying it wasn't Pandemrix, but the additive AS03 in it.
Bullshit, if H1N1 looks like the wakefulness neuropeptide orexin, it would have happened either way. The bastards trained the immune system to attack orexin in the body as well as the cells in the brain that make it. They even said so back in 2017.
https://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/351927/WHO-Vaccine-Manual.pdf
These observations indicate that vaccine-associated narcolepsy is not due solely to the characteristics of the adjuvant.
Of course, that's probably because they tried to remove stigma of the AS03 adjuvant since, you know, they're putting it in the clot shots.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04762680
Biological: SARS-CoV-2 adjuvanted recombinant protein vaccine, monovalent (D614)-AS03, Dosage A
Most people shut up with their "it's absolutely safe, they know what they're doing" rhetoric after I tell them to look up Pandemrix.
They get even more worried when I mention that no matter which way you cut the Pandemrix causes narcolepsy debate, both sides prove that vaccines cause it.
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If it wasn't AS03, then vaccines by their very nature can cause narcolepsy.
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If it was AS03, then why the hell are they putting it in the Covid shots?
Anyway, I guess I've got that card in my back pocket.
Feel free to point out these two well-documented vaccines in your fight against the Pharmaceutical Tyranny Campaign!
Thanks, I'll look into it.
Fascinating stuff fren, thanQ. Username just hit me between the eyes too..
Yeah, the sleepiness is a gift and a curse.
I have one foot in the waking world, one foot in the sleeping world, and one foot in the grave.
The vivid dreams narcolepsy causes gives me three feet sometimes, so I'm not even exaggerating.
The results are, though, that I feel like I'm stuck between realities 24/7 and cannot recognize the obvious. I've never been truly "awake" to the world and feel like a ghost being able to see everything that's happening while never being able to interact with it personally, and so I don't personally understand the novelties of simply living, having fun, and turning my brain off once and a while.
I guess it's a way of saying I overthink things...
In class, like history classes, I'd always find every single contributing factor as to why an event took place, but I could never figure out the most obvious or primary factor.
Question: "Why did this war happen?"
Me: "Because the economic hardships of the middle class made it advantageous for the..."
Expected Answer: "Because country A killed country B's leader."
I'm always perpetually missing the key component, while miraculously being able to discover every single contributing factor -- even some many learned professors would have missed for nearly a century of study.
In other words, I'm a B+ student, never an A.
This "super-power" to recognize all extraneous avenues really falls on its face when it comes to math, though; you typically can't find alternate paths to a math problem and pass a test asking you to show your work...
oh the irony. a bloke with legit narcolepsy is more awake than most of the normies hahahaha
It really is a superpower fren, I've followed your work since I first lurked, I have a feeling you underestimate your abilities- if you've gathered all the evidence and pieced back together the scattered components of the story, you've done the hardest and most important part. B+'s and A's are mere constructs of an ability to think within a box. You broke out. There's no value applicable to that- it's priceless.
I'm glad you are with all of us.
You need to set up a Multiple Sleep Latency test.
They make you take about 5 naps back to back throughout the day and monitor your brain waves. You're in a sleep lab all day, so buckle up for a hell of a ride.
If you enter sleep in under 15 minutes on average and are able to go into REM sleep at all in that time frame, then you fail the test and are indicative for narcolepsy.
You won't get a diagnoses with just that, but it's the critical step on the path. First they will diagnose you with idiopathic hypersomnia. (Excessive Daytime Sleepiness with an Unknown Cause)
They will probably take you through a sleep apnea test first, just because.
From there they will step you through medications, and depending on your response you will get a formal diagnosis.
If you want a quick test to prove it to yourself, do this:
Force yourself to sleep 13 hours straight. If you wake up, stay in bed until you fall back to sleep.
If, when you wake up, you feel MORE exhausted than before you went to sleep, then try the next step:
Set an alarm and go to sleep for 4 hours. Wake up, stay awake for 4 hours and then go to sleep for 4 hours.
If by the end of that mess of a sleep scenario you wake up feeling more alert than the 13 hour straight sleep period, then congratulations, you and I are two peas in a pod and you probably have narcolepsy.
If naps make you feel like you got hit by a truck, but you can't NOT take a nap, that's a further indication.
And lastly, you know you've gotten the thick of it when certain emotions cause you to "discombobulate" and lose muscle tone. This is called Cataplexy. It's hard to describe, as there is no physical sensation. Personally, when I feel a big kick of nostalgia-like feelings my vision compresses, I lose the ability to discern depth perception, my vision gets a vignette, my legs turn off (literally, just stop working at the knee, no sensation, no numbness, just like someone flipped a switch and, whoopsie, your legs lose signal for 0.5 seconds), and I get the same feeling you get when you have a huge blast of deja-vu.
If you have all that then you're in the same boat as me and probably have narcolepsy.
Don't strive for a formal diagnosis unless you need it for coverage or medication. Narcolepsy on a life insurance plan jacks up the rates something ludicrous, so don't go there unless you have to.
Also, don't apply for disability unless no one will hire you. If medication eventually controls the symptoms, don't even mention you have narcolepsy. They can refuse to hire you based on liability and accessibility grounds -- disability protection laws be damned. Trust me, I've had experience with this.
Dude, I think some of what you mentioned is normal, or maybe I had too many vaccines as a kid??? Idk, but I always miss the main point and focus on the other details that seem fascinating. Then if you still ask me why the war started I say something similar to what you said. God has really given me a gift for computers and my brain thrives in that area. I can start hearing what is wrong with a computer and most times have a solution before they get half way through telling me. I’ve already been over all the scenarios because I can guess why they called after a few words.
That aspect of it may just be the autism. I know I'm on the spectrum, but where it crosses over into narcolepsy and other types of brain damage is hard to figure...
Try this:
Think of a cube in your mind.
What color is it?
What smell is the number 1?
What does blue taste like?
Does a blue cube have a taste?
If you had an answer to all these, then you and I are kindred spirits.
For me, every color has a taste, every shape has a color, and every note has a personality archetype.
I assign attributes to numbers, shapes, sounds, colors, etc.
I cannot stop myself from doing this.
It's how my brain draws connections between things. It's how I can remember so many freaking facts off the top of my head and the number figures to boot.
In conversation it may seem I randomly bring up things that have nothing to do with anything that was being talked about, but in my mind it makes perfect sense.
Steaks are red, spheres are red, steak spheres are basically meatballs, so who wants to know why cat meat makes bad steaks but good meatballs?
Yeah, that's how my brain works...
It's damn exhausting...
Can you relate?
I hope it works out well for you. I found it to be a very clear-headed and stimulating herbal supplement when I tried it out. Very different from caffeine though.
I'm actually looking for something to induce uninterrupted sleep.
Xyrem (Sodium Oxybate / GHB / Date Rape Drug / Cosby Special) is what I take that costs so much.
It works by preventing REM sleep from happening whenever it feels like it (something orexin would be suppressing) and interrupting Stage 2 Deep Sleep.
How I usually explain it is like this:
Imagine you fill up gas every time you pass a gas station, whether or not you need to fill up on gas.
Just going down a main-street would be a nightmare.
That's what my body does in respect to REM sleep cycles. Instead of waiting for REM-required sleep to build up, my body goes into REM state whenever it pleases. When it does it and I'm awake, while not having a good Stage 2 Deep Sleep in a while, my knees buckle and I fall (Cataplexy).
Xyrem works by blowing up half of the gas stations. It is so potent in its ability to induce a REM-impossible sleep state, that my REM-required sleep gauge is allowed to drain down low enough such that my body recognizes it's all full up on REM. With REM settled, it allows for Stage 2 Deep Sleep, and I get an actual night's rest like a normal person.
So, instead of just a stimulant (something that super-charges Stage 2 Deep Sleep energy you have stored up) I'm dealing with having been tapped out of Stage 2 Deep sleep completely, so a super-charger for a fuel you don't have does nothing.
In fact, caffeine makes me sleepier.
If it super-charges Stage 2 Deep Sleep when I am running off fumes in that capacity, it instead just burns through it all immediately and I get 10 minutes of heart palpitations followed by an exhaustion like I've worked a 13 hour day and came home to a gang beating.
Anyway, my goal is to find a drug/herb that suppresses REM sleep cycles in a short term, like Xyrem does, but without the price tag and "legality" issues.
I need a sedative that is excessively potent, has a very low duration, doesn't linger, and doesn't make me excessively horny. Turns out, things that make you sleepy make you horny. Go figure...
Coffee or energy drinks? Lots of people are B12 deficient helps you to sleep.
B12 is packed into energy drinks is all Im getting at. S9me famous yotuber cured his insomnia with an energy drink.
I take B12 and B9 Methylfolate.
I did a test to see what might be causing depression, and it indicated a genetic deficiency in the ability to metabolize any other B vitamin into B9.
It doesn't seem to do me much good, but I keep taking it because I like the raspberry flavor and why not, you can't really overdo vitamin B?
I've also tried melatonin, but it lingers too long to be of much use.
Yes.
I have a contact who can "hook me up" with medical cannabis, all legitimately, but while I find something that I can replace Xyrem with I still have to be able to pass a drug test to get it.
Cannabis is my last-ditch effort after all other things don't pan out.