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!
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.