Laughter threatens woman's health
Kay Underwood, 20, of Barrow Upon Soar, Leicestershire, has cataplexy, which means her muscles weaken when she laughs, causing her to fall over.
No laughing matter
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No laughing matter
Wow. That's gotta suck.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: No laughing matter
Hmmm. I wonder if Jack Benny might have also suffered from that condition? They say that when someone would truly crack him up and he was on the verge of hysterics that he would fall to the floor.s1m0n wrote:Kay Underwood, 20, of Barrow Upon Soar, Leicestershire, has cataplexy, which means her muscles weaken when she laughs, causing her to fall over.
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That's just reminded me of a program I saw about sleep disorders. There was a woman on it that fell asleep every time she laughed, almost ruined her life. She couldn't go out with her friends, it affected her work and her relationships.Thomaston wrote:Cataplexy is part of the Narcoleptic Tetrad, aka the 4 hallmark signs of narcolepsy. The other 3 are excessive daytime sleepiness, hypnagogic (sleep-onset) hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.
Quite sad.
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I dated someone who'd fall asleep within three seconds of, err, a climax. I once tried keeping her talking to see what would happened, but she feel asleep on cue regardless.chrisoff wrote:There was a woman on it that fell asleep every time she laughed, almost ruined her life. She couldn't go out with her friends, it affected her work and her relationships.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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You could set a clock to her. Or a stopwatch, I suppose.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: No laughing matter
I have a similar problem, except that isn't my leg muscles that fail me.s1m0n wrote:Wow. That's gotta suck.
Laughter threatens woman's health
Kay Underwood, 20, of Barrow Upon Soar, Leicestershire, has cataplexy, which means her muscles weaken when she laughs, causing her to fall over.
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