Intermittent Fasting and Narcolepsy: My Experience (treatments part 3/4)

[@melmbautista]

Narcoleptic sister here 💞 I remember one night not being able to sleep due to trying a new prescribed medication and made a HUGE sandwich to make me fall asleep. Worked. But the next day learned that just eating turkey lunch meat would have been enough to trigger a small response and make me tired. Ah! Was writing this while still watching the video, Vegans don't eat turkey! Well it was the L-Tryptophan in it that did it. So I stay away from any foods with that in it during the day. Excite I found your channel!

[@Ryush806]

I’m glad to have found this video. I haven’t been diagnosed with anything yet (sleep study is scheduled) but I have symptoms suggestive of narcolepsy. I started intermittent fasting with the goal of weight loss and noticed it seemed to help a lot. I rarely have trouble in the morning while fasting but after I eat its nap time. And like you, carbs seem to make it way worse.

[@nad1991]

I've started using a carb blocker called sugarbreak, it's helped me so much with not getting sleepy after eating a meal

[@jeffreyhall3166]

I would suggest taking digestive enzymes with your food.

[@PatB415]

If you eat a food trigger while on these meds, you still get sleep attacks?

[@Toneetutu]

Coffee makes me sleepy

[@anonym010891]

Same for me 😅but I love my coffee so I drink coffein free 🤓