Kelly Ripa on Husband Mark Consuelos' Narcolepsy 

That is a telltale sign of narcolepsy. Have him diagnosed, Kelly, seriously.

I'm diagnosed Narcoleptic and I used to go to the bathroom at work to nap when felt sleep attack coming on. Never got caught but can imagine how embarrassing that would be.

I wonder if she knew that Jimmy actually has narcolepsy

Her husband is HOT. Like, beyond hot. Lucky lady.

Kelly is a great story teller.

5:06 he wakes up for certain things !! HAHA

A few facts, only 20% of people with Narcolepsy are actually diagnosed. Narcolepsy his a terrible disease and most people wait way to long before seeking help. Everyone with narcolepsy does not have Cataplexy. Cataplexy is one tell tale sign of narcolepsy. Emotions but the most common is laughter, that trigger a cataplexy attack. Cataplexy can drop some people to the floor or some people with mild cataplexy just will lose the ability for half a second to a second either to hold their head up, or arms will fall to the sides or knees feel like they want to buckle, or a mix. There are other side effects that are sleep paralysis and hallucinations that are crazy life like. And there is lucid dreaming when you drift off, you stay awake and move in to a dream. A lucid dream can be really fun and the Nightmares are pretty scary when you have to live them. Please share this info if you know somebody with sleep problems, Narcolepsy is not the joke people make it out to be.

her husband sound like me. i drank a 5 hour energy shot and took a nap. lol.

I can fall asleep anywhere, too. This video makes me feel a little better. 😂 The other day I was looking for something under my passenger seat and fell asleep with my arm under the seat.

I can sympathise with exactly what she's saying. I did the sleep test for my diagnosis and they told me I can fall into deep sleep within 3 minutes. :^)

I wonder why Jimmy doesn’t mention he has narcolepsy here. I was hoping he would.

I love her omg.

She's so smart and funny!

I think Kelly is adorable

I think I love her

Hi, I was just reading through the thread here, and I have written this elsewhere but thought it was important for me to share my experiences too. Narcolepsy seems to be different for everyone as to how extreme it is and what symptoms they experience, and what drugs will help to combat it so by no means is my experience applicable to every narcoleptic person but I have not even been able to speak to someone with the same condition before, so id like to share my story and also I think it puts into perspective how serious the condition really is, for anyone questioning this in the comments below: I had very early onset REM sleep, with Cataplexy.. To the point when at its worse every night rather than falling asleep I would fall directly into sleep paralysis and I would hallucinate, have out of body experiences, id have an intense ringing in my ears if I tried to close my eyes with a sensation that I can only liken to being just about to fall off of the edge of a cliff. Basically I was in REM sleep both before going to sleep and after waking up so the onset was basically non existent. My sleep was so bad / non existent for months last year and I was losing my sanity, hallucinating, lack of sleep can have interesting affects... I couldn't move, if I tried to walk down the street id collapse in cataplectic episodes like 10 times in a 5 minute walk, which made things impossible, I remember times collapsing to the floor like a rag doll, I remember feeling my spine fold as the muscles in my back were totally paralysed and then id be stuck in that position for minutes before I got any motion back, many times with my head and neck in such a position that it made it very difficult to breath. Honestly I thought I was going to die and if I thought that if I had to live like that then there would be no point in living, I smoked a joint and started getting sleep again and have recovered massively but still live with the underlying condition. I am happy though that I have been through and endured and came out of the other end I would not change it sheerly for the gratitude for life this experience has given me. I feel that my strength has been tested and i've passed. Also, the treatment, specifically modafinil has been a massive game changer, and I only now realise that I was severely disadvantaged growing up in school, at university etc. It's feels great to finally feel awake and be firing at all cylinders for once! Thank god for science and medicine. I was told that if a fraction of the funding that was put into other condition, or even other charitable avenues like animal care etc, was put into the cure for narcolepsy, we would probably have a cure by now, as there are clear routes that can be taken to in scientific research which just have not happened due to lack of funding, - as it is a 'rare' condition there just isn't much funding unfortunately. Saying that, I believe that Narcolepsy is not as rare as they think and in actual fact Narcolepsy from what I have gathered is merely a naturally low amount of Hypocretin hormone, which a healthy person can deplete too, if a person with naturally low levels does the same things to deplete this though, then their remaining amount of hypocretin is depleted to the point where they become so affected that their symptoms cause them to seek diagnosis and treatment. My hunch is that many people who take naps during the day, find it hard to fight off sleep are narcoleptic but they have not been through the perfect storm of factors which would completely deplete the hypocretin in the brain of this sort of person and lead to symptoms which justify seeking medical attention. I imagine that all of these people are technically narcoleptic, and that narcolepsy is a spectrum that relates to the amount of hypocretin remaining in the body, rather than a 'have it or you don't' kind of thing. I have never spoke to another narcoleptic person before, so this made me spill my heart and thoughts bit. I hope you all remain strong and accomplish everything that you desire in life - if you are going through anything like what I did, there is light at the end of the tunnel and if anyone has any issues feel free to reach out to me

i have narcolepsy and cataplexy it sucks

Look I think she missed the innuendo Jimmy was alluding to at the end. 🤣

that bathmat looks so cozy

Thank you.

She is so pretty!

Love Kelly

I have narcolepsy as well. I can sympathies. Kelly is pretty.

She is living proof that some people really are super skinny, healthy and happy! Eat your hearts out all you skinny-haters!

Mark sounds like he's sick of her LOL :)

Narcolepsy is a real disease and not a laughing matter. He needs to go to the doctor and find out.

Such a cute story

We get snow days the first couple then a blizzard comes in March and they are like "sorry parents we are outta snow days. Betta getcha chains."

Jimmy Kimmel plays down his Narcolepsy, but it doesn't have simple symptoms and being afflicted by it can have many negative effects upon your lifestyle and those about you. I know how ex Sarah Silverman shrugged off the idea of Jimmy having it in a very negative way. Narcolepsy is a seriously disabling condition in extreme cases and has destroyed my life, I have probably always had it. But like many pushed it to the back of my mind, blamed it on another illness or lifestyle choice. An example of how strong the sleep attacks are is that I fell asleep next to a Speaker at a gig and it destroyed my inner ear. When I finally collapsed and could not blame it on anything else my life changed. I take a mix of 15 tablets a day, if you suspect you may have Narcolepsy see a doctor and demand to be taken seriously. Narcoleptics are x7 times more likely to take their own lives than the national average, You need help and can be treated for this and the tetrad of the conditions symptoms.

adorable dwarf ! :D

She's such a small, funny, cute, pretty thing!

With progivil and xyrem I can live and work, diagnostic at 21 years old, after years of destructive comments about my supposed laziness even if I was on the breaking point by working hard as a nurse student, waking up early for 12hours long day at the hospital, until my doctor send me to a neurologist, after 3 days of tests night and day I knew that I was blaming myself for nothing since high school... My brain doesn't produce orexin, my sleep cycles were simply chaos with mostly REM sleep (dream sleep) and not enough deep "recover" sleep... Every day I acted in an hyperactive way in order to stimulate me and never sit down too long, I didn't sleep a lot in fact, 8hours adding nights and the mini naps occurring in classroom for exemple, a lot of narcoleptics didn't sleep a lot but very very badly that's the key point, you're always like if you were at the nightclub all night and sleep 2hours... I hope one day more and more young people can have the diagnostic early, because that's destructive all the comments you receive all your life, destructing your confidence, your social life, your school days...

Even on proper meds you can take them and fall asleep. It's mostly about staying active during the day and having prescribed naps of necessary.

720p in 60 f is so relaxt to watch

This is pretty funny. Lol.

lol -11? come to canada is -40 here...

I have narcolepsy and coffee not good for narcoleptics. The stimulant in coffee makes you more tired. He needs treatment. I'm on meds and still get cataplexy which makes me drop when my legs get numb. I can fall asleep anywhere.

I've never heard of narcolepsy until recently, I've been diagnosed with obtrusive sleep apnea, I've never been tested for narcolepsy. Watching from London UK.

Funny!

She seems like one of the few "high profile" celebrities that is down to earth and sincerely approachable...Although I find her a bit too skinny overall she seems like able

where is his old outer. "makes sure to have a stuipd argument in the comments section". Can't believe he removed that.

Soooo I'm not the only one good :-). I'm I guy and I fall asleep on comfortable Bathroom mats all the time lol

ELEVENTEEN, SHE SAYS ELEVENTEEN, TOO.

Good Job Mark

My boyfriend can fall asleep anywhere anytime too. I take hours to fall asleep at night and it has to be a bed lol. I’ll never understand it!

Faith!

Sounds like sleep apnea more than narcolepsy

Did she know Jimmy had narcolepsy also?!

1x while scuba diving, due to narcolepsy, I fell asleep at about 12m under the surface.

Can't tell if she knows the joke that's going on at the end there

She was completely oblivious from 5:10 on. That whole thing was way over her head.

shes such a fire chick

IT'S ELEVEN NO TEEN AT THE END 0:13

I don't see why people tell me to get diagnosed when I have or have had all the symptoms of narcolepsy since age 14. I am 22 now. And I honestly don't know why it's so commonly misdiagnosed....I mean if you put illnesses like depression aside and put age of onset aside and just look at the symptoms being experienced, it's not that hard imo.

He’s burnt out listening to her for so many years. Yap yap yap 😂🤣

is this 50 fps?

he could also have sleep apnea! get it checked out like come on thats ridiculous.

he needs to go get checked. that sounds like narcolepsy

Kelly... go back to short hair. I did watch one of your shows and you said you would never let your hair get long again .you look very stunning with shirt hair .

Jimmy Kimmel looks like a Simpson without his beard.

She's is so fine

Mark sounds like I used to be. It sounds like he suffers from severe sleep apnea

I didn't know her husband did anything in showbiz. 😅

She is acting like a teenagers and looks like one in the late 40. But at least she is happy! :D

She a mother of three kids and she's 45 years old.

I think I know why anyone married to Kelly Ripa would have narcolepsy... I wouldn't get any sleep with her either. How does she get sleep though?

The eleventen was a joke

"It doesn't happen very offen." Let's just ignore the t in often. I hate bad grammar

I had a friend that always falling asleep too. Turns out she was a heroin addict (I later found out). Him going to the bathroom and then falling asleep, kinda sounds like a heroin addict lol

Kelly is really Debbie Harry @ 1980

did she really just say eleventeen... please tell me it was a joke

Sounds like he might have sleep apnea.

5mn watching Kellly Ripa are enough to see how good the business of plastic surgery is in the USA.

narcolepsy? or opiate addiction? they look similar to the untrained eye haha.

she can scratch my head...

I think after 'amazing', 'we actually' would be a second runner up of overused English.

She looks way older than her age.... I thought she was 50+

i feel for her husband, putting it insider her must feel like a mincing machine...

What were they talking towards the end? Get up for what? Pee?

Still feels weird to watch things in 60fps

She is wearing a black jacket with nothing underneath. HAH

11 teen?

WHY. DOES. SHE. TALK. LIKE. THAT?

My top five sexiest woman: 1. Bridget Monahan 2 Kate Beckinsale 3. Jennifer Aniston 4. Jada Pinkett Smith 5. Julia Roberts Honorable mention- Kelly Rippa

sounds like her man's a dope fiend

Her voice is........ hmmm..

8.98999

First!

milfy

Man chest.

The plastic surgeon almost cut off her nose completely

Ps. That's heroin. Jus sayn.

Trump 2016...

0:15 eleventeen below zero????? Dafuq

She is lucky she is hot if those looks fade so will that marriage. Tot a marriage based on looks is what i am saying

She is waayyyy too skinny! very pretty...but has a boys body! no curves!