Blog: In the media

Nikki works for the National Trust, and shares her experience of having to accommodate her job with her condition of narcolepsy.

Publishing this link to today’s British Medical Journal article on the use of the Pandemrix vaccine.

Have to question where the BMJ have been for the last 9 years and why they have chosen to focus on events in the Republic of Ireland.

That story needs telling but so do they all. Perhaps it felt a bit too difficult to publicise here when we needed support.

Numbers quoted from our website are historic & we were not contacted to re-validate ahead of this article being published.

Narcolepsy UK trustee and science writer Henry Nicholls recently published a book, "Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night". In relation to this he was interviewed, with 45 minutes of air time, talking about narcolepsy, cataplexy and sleep disorders on Jefferson Public Radio in the US yesterday morning. The full interview is here.

Featured on Buzzfeed today is a well researched article on the "Pandemrix" swine flu vaccinations of 2009 and the (now) established link to developing narcolepsy. The article focusses on the experiences of NHS staff, who claim they were required or pressured into having the vaccination without being informed of the somewhat unusual circumstances regarding it's rushed roll out and relatively low level of testing. Some of these same staff who were adversely affected by developing narcolepsy symptoms have now been left to cope with what can be devastating life changes without support.