Narcolepsy

This site explains how to get the costs of your medication for narcolepsy or another rare disorder covered if you can't afford to buy it, whether because your insurance won't pay for it or you have no insurance.

Learn from this excellent 10-page document explaining narcolepsy; symptoms, triggers of cataplexy, effects on physical and emotional functioning, medications and side effects, and more.

See this overview and list of newer and older medications for narcolepsy if you or someone you care about needs pharmaceutical help for the condition.

Although there isn't a cure yet, medication can help symptoms of narcolepsy. See all four brief videos here, including people with the disorder and medical professionals.

See this brief list of key points concerning narcolepsy, including facts you might not know and links to further information.

This is a little hard on the eyes, but a good letter about what it's like to have narcolepsy for one woman.

Learn what narcolepsy is, treatment of it, prognosis for it and about research on it. This is a basic, one-page overview, also available in Spanish

Read this interesting article if you want to know whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers workers with narcolepsy. It might, depending on your circumstances.

See these questions on narcolepsy and click for the researched answers. For instance, do you know what hypocretin is? How about HLA? Can narcolepsy be passed genetically to a child?