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A medical study conducted by the University Center for Sleep Medicine and Research at the University Medical City at King Saud University refuted the belief prevailing in societies that the symptoms of type 1 "compulsive sleep disorder" accompanied by paralysis of wakefulness "are permanent and do not change with time.
Professor of Chest Diseases and Sleep Medicine at the College of Medicine and University Medical City, Dr. Ahmed bin Salem Bahamam, explained that compulsive sleep is an immune disease whose symptoms are sudden sleep attacks that cannot be resisted, and wakefulness paralysis "paralysis of all or some of the body''s muscles in emotional situations" and squatting, Hallucinations of beginning or end of sleep, interrupted sleep at night, and susceptibility to weight gain And it was previously believed that his situation does not change with the passage of time.
Dr. Bahamam indicated that the results of the study were reached after following 38 patients suffering from narcolepsy type 1 for 10 years, and its results were published in the journal Nat Sci Sleep in October 2019.
He explained that the study showed that 42% of patients were able to stop the treatment of vigilance paralysis without the appearance of symptoms of paralysis at the end of the study, and the rate of sleepiness decreased statistically significant at the end of the study, but the increase in sleepiness did not completely disappear, and the percentage of those who get a good night sleep increased by the end of the study from 16% to 40%, while the weight of the injured increased at the end of the study, statistically significant, according to what was published by SPA.
Dr. Ahmed Bahamam indicated that the study found that the narcolepsy pathway is unstable, and that some symptoms may improve over time.
