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Hi guys,
I have recently heard of an order, involving problems when sleeping. This sounds like a lot like my syptoms, but is their even a medication available? It's called non-24, and I would like to get a doctor to help me figure out if I have it. How can I figure this out? I know there are sleep studies, but am not sure of the rest. The website I found is www.non-24.com
Nathan.
hi nathan,
I probably also have it since I also fit the symptoms
I heard of a medication that was released recently that might help
and I also heard comments from other fully blind individuals that melatonin helps
however, I personally would not use the medication if it isn't seriously affecting your quality of life
I haven't taken anything for this disorder since it isn't vary serious with me
I've probably had it for several years. Then again, I've been hooked on caffeine for several years too.
Non-24 isn't a new thing, they've been studying this for a few years now. They have just come out with a medicine for it this year called Hetlioz, but I don't knowe a lot about it. I'm sure if you Google non-24 or Hetlioz, you can find more info.
I've had this for years now, as well. hetlioz.com should give you more info, though.
personally, even though non-24 seriously affects my life, I wouldn't dare to touch Hetlioz.
I use Hetlioz now, it's actually helped get my sleeping pattern stable again. No more urges to nap at random times, I get full nights of sleep with no trouble, and best of all it has no side effects for me. Believe me, before I got it, I was a huge mess.
It disturbed me how much media coverage this disorder was getting a few months back.
Radio and TV stations were playing commercials about it almost as often as all the antidepressant commercials. I seem to see those a lot, too, but that's another topic.
I'm not saying it isn't legitimate, but it's existed for a long time before all that. What made it sell?
What made it sell was, now there is a pharmaceutical solution. Infection existed for a long time before penicillin too.
what made it sell, was the fact they attached the blindness label to it, cause if they marketed it as just another sleeping pill, people likely wouldn't have paid any attention to it.
I'd say Leo and Chelsea are both right. Though blind people are such a minority, they couldn't sell enough solely on that label to recover their research costs.
Exactly. All it really did was make people say "wow, look at all the poor blind people. They can't even sleep properly."
People have actually said that to me, too, after seing the commercials, so I'm merely paraphrasing. I think it's disgusting.
I tend to agree Turtle.
I agree with Leo's post. While the only way to manage non-24 was behavioral, not a word outside "the literature"; LOL. Now, there's a pill, so, bring on the commercials; Is direct-to-consumer advertizing of prescription drugs good policy? That for another topic thread.