The story of a woman who falls asleep without realizing it when she wakes up emotionally stimulated, such as laughing or crying.
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The story of a woman who fainted every time she laughed was introduced. [사진=’더선’ 보도내용 캡처]The story of a woman who fainted whenever she was emotionally stimulated, such as crying or laughing, was introduced.
According to a report by British media The Sun, Chelsea Coombs (27), who lives in Kibworth, Leicestershire, first started showing symptoms when she was 17. It was as if the muscles on one side of my face suddenly became paralyzed while I was laughing. From then on, whenever I smiled, the tension in my facial muscles momentarily began to relax, and when that happened, I fell asleep anywhere.
Chelsea, who visited the hospital, met with a neurologist and underwent various tests. The doctor suspected cataplexy, a sleep disorder in which muscle tension is suddenly lost, and cataplexy, which is triggered by emotional stimulation and causes muscle weakness and relaxation. However, he did not go to the hospital again and did not receive an official diagnosis.
Afterwards, the symptoms continued to worsen, and emotions other than laughter began to trigger the symptoms. The symptom occurs most often when laughing, but now also appears when crying or having a hangover. He explained that when symptoms appear, they are similar to mild dizziness. He added that although he was still conscious, it felt as if his brain had been drunk. In severe cases, leg muscles may relax. Currently, loss of muscle tone occurs up to 100 times a day. There are situations that can be laughed off, but it is so dangerous that I once fainted from laughing in the swimming pool while on vacation and nearly drowned.
Currently, he has visited the hospital again to receive an official diagnosis and treatment, and is publicizing his symptoms through social media.
A sleep disorder characterized by narcolepsy, cataplexy, narcolepsy hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.
Paroxysmal sleep is a commonly known narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a condition that causes unbearable sleepiness during the day during waking hours and symptoms such as abnormal manifestations of REM sleep, such as hallucinations when falling asleep or waking up, sleep paralysis (scissors), and sleep attacks (severe sleepiness during the day even if you sleep enough at night). It is a neuropsychiatric disease. The most common symptom is narcolepsy, where a person falls asleep without realizing it and wakes up with a clear mind after about 15 minutes of sleep. It may also occur along with cataplexy, in which muscle tension is suddenly lost due to emotional stimulation. According to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, as of 2022, the number of narcolepsy patients in Korea is 6,646.
Studies have shown that paroxysmal sleep disorders commonly occur in adolescence or early adulthood, most often before the age of 30, and occur in approximately 0.02 to 0.16% of adults. The cause of the disease is not yet fully known, but it is presumed to be caused by abnormalities in the sleep mechanism and genetic factors are also known to play a role.
For diagnosis, you must stay in a sleep laboratory for 2 days and 1 night and perform a nighttime polysomnography and a physical examination in succession. The nighttime sleep Darwin test checks for other sleep disorders that may cause drowsiness during the day, and the daytime test objectively checks for symptoms of severe daytime sleepiness and REM sleep abnormalities.
Treatment involves controlling symptoms through medications such as stimulants or antidepressants. In addition to drug treatment, it is recommended to make lifestyle changes such as taking regular naps and getting enough sleep at night.
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