Part of narcolepsy, for one writer for Healthline, is highs and lows in energy.
At age 27, more than a decade after I first started having symptoms, I was finally diagnosed with narcolepsy.
In some ways, the diagnosis made my life easier. But it hasn’t been in the ways I expected.
I thought that once my illness had a name, medicine would help me overcome the weakness, fatigue, and sleeplessness that comes with the condition. Instead, the medications that doctors prescribed me have either only had a limited effect or they’ve made me feel worse
