canuck 0 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 We’ve long known about the connection between sleep disorders and cluster. But typical medication for sleep has not been the miracle solution for cluster. But sodium oxybate may be the exception to the rule. Sodium oxybate is a type of drug known as a central nervous system depressant. It’s used to help prevent daytime sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy (a sleep disorder – read about narcolepsy here). Though we don’t know exactly how it works, it does help with sleep patterns. The four patients in this long term study responded very well to the drug – their cluster attacks during the night drastically decreased and were less intense when they came. Obviously, patients also slept better! The results are very positive, and there’s great hope that this will help many other cluster patients. Though the study was small, it must be remembered that this is a rare condition and, again, the results were very promising in all four patients. Be sure to talk to your doctor about this option, and only get the drug from recognized sources, where it is pure and properly labelled Quote Link to post Share on other sites
1EYEcries 1 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 "Sodium oxybate is also known as GHB, a known street drug of abuse. Because of the potential for abuse and the serious side effects that may occur, sodium oxybate is available only from a certified pharmacy under a special program called Xyrem Success Program. Your doctor must be registered in the program in order to prescribe sodium oxybate for you." http://www.drugs.com/mtm/sodium-oxybate.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ricardo 96 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 It does look interesting.... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23463909 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21613599 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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