Cataplexy or this weakness because remember there is skeletal muscle atonia. Well, of course, you re driving along and you have an attack, that is going to be bad news. Amnesia because you re asleep in these bizarre hypnagogic hallucinations which are dreams. The average time to diagnose this is between 10 and 20 years because no one thinks about the diagnosis. While these aren t going to walk into your office very often, the one time it does you can tremendously help this individual by making the diagnosis earlier I m not going to talk a lot about treatment because I think we ll probably most times want to have someone else helping who is an expert in this therapy but diagnosis is where it is at for primary care there, in Sleep related myoclonus.
Nocturnal myoclonus is repetitive stereotypic leg movements.
They are non REM so non rapid eye movement sleep. They interfere with falling and staying asleep. So these occur early on in the sleep cycle generally. A person might complain of fatigue or muscle aches and the treatment is generally benzodiazepines, clonazepam. Restless leg syndrome.