Sleeping Beauty Isn’t Only Fairy Tale, It Is A Disease, Here Are The Details

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When anyone talks about Sleeping Beauty, the mind will quickly go to Disney, but now your mind should cancel that thought because there is a disease called Sleeping Beauty.

The proof is always in the pudding, now, a 21 year old university student called Rhoda Rodriuez, has been diagnosed with a rare yet unbelievable disease that sometimes causes her to sleep for three weeks straight.

The lady who lives in Leicester, UK suffers from sleeping beauty syndrome better known as Kleine-Levin Syndrome which is a rare sleep disorder.

21-year-old student diagnosed with sleeping beauty syndrome, naps for 3 weeks

According to Daily Mail, in a day, Rhoda can stay in bed for 22 hours and wake from time to time while still in a haze to munch junk food and go to the washroom. During her second year in university, Rhoda failed after she slept while sitting for her examinations.

According to the beauty, some people often confuse her condition for laziness, something that deeply hurts her.

“But I am determined to not let it have a big impact on my life. It is one part of me and not who I am. It is frustrating because I cannot help it,” she said.

Also, Rhoda insists she has no control whenever the episodes happen. When she was a kid, the lady missed out on most of her childhood because she could not hangout with her fellow children as much as she would want to.

However, doctors could not pinpoint what was causing her sleeping episodes till she was a grown woman.

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Somes of the symptoms of sleeping Beauty include:

Common symptoms include extreme sleepiness. There may be a strong desire to go to bed and trouble getting up in the morning.

During an episode, it’s not uncommon to sleep up to 20 hours a day. People living with KLS may get up to use the bathroom and eat, then go back to sleep.

Fatigue can be so severe that people with KLS are bedridden until an episode passes. This takes time and energy away from family, friends, and personal obligations.

Episodes can also trigger other symptoms, such as:

  • hallucinations
  • disorientation
  • irritability
  • childish behavior
  • increased appetite
  • excessive sex drive

This may result from reduced blood flow to parts of the brain during an episode.

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