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| − | + | html += "<p align=\"justify\"><font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>Hi, Coralie, can you present yourseld in few words?<\/b><br>"; | |
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: Hello, I am 22 years-old. I will soon start a course in order to become an educational assistant in a middle school, as well as having little student jobs here and there. What else …. <br>"; | ||
| + | html += "I write, even though it does not pay. Just words, kind words.<br><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>Could you describe your sleep disorder?<\/b><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: I have problems sleeping since the age of 8. I need a lot of time to fall asleep once lying down in bed, something like three hours. I wake up approximately every 45minutes\/1 hour. I alternate between phases of insomnia and phases of hypersomnia. I sleep either very little or too much, there is no in between. Bt in both cases, I wake up as explained before. <br><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>Do you know the reasons of these sleepingproblems? Do you know if they are linked to a particular disease? <\/b><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: Yes, I suffer from migraines and chronic aches. I often wake because my body is in pain. Sleepless nights or nights where I sleep a lot (12 to 15 hours in bed) are due to other causes. <br><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>Do these sleep disorders affect your daily life? DO they impact your moods or your relationships with others?<\/b><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: Yes, given the fact my nights are not restful at all (as soon as I wake, I am tired). I can be moody with my [circle of friends or family members]. It is also annoying for work and my studies. Some days, I could no even get up because I was too tired. When I went to classes, I could no concentrate and lost track of the lesson very easily. I had to copy off my classmates. <br>"; | ||
| + | html += "The same type of situation happens when I have to participate in a long conversation or participate in an activity\/field trip. I know ahead of it that it will be difficult to keep up and that I will need a lot of energy as I am already tired. It is also necessary for me to lie down during the day when I cannot take it anymore and I am obliged to take pills to fall asleep. <br><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>Do you have a treatment for these sleep disorders? And if yes, do they treat your symtoms efficiently? <\/b><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: Yes I take sleeping pills but it is not a real treatment. I undergo what they call a “denial of disease” from the medical community regarding invisible diseases. [They do not consider my sickness to be real.] So I take what I can find in pharmacies without a medical prescription. I therefore take half a sleeping pill every night to help me sleep and sometimes I take a pill to fight off stress because they help to drowse.<br>"; | ||
| + | html += "These two drugs help me sleep and I wake up every hour or hour and a quarter rather [than more often]. It is not much better but it is an improvement."; | ||
| + | html += "Before I took pills of the benzodiazepin category that I stopped because I crashed into walls (literally) because of them. <br><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>Are you implying that doctors do not consider your sleep disorders as a disease? <\/b><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: I'd rather say that [doctors] do not know what to do. They do not care and they have been telling me “it'll pass” for over fifteen years now.<br><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>In our survey, we offer alternative treatments to traditional drug treatments. Is there an activity you would like to try (yoga, hypnosis, aromatherapy, chiropractic treatments, osteopath treatments, taichi, acupuncture)? <\/b><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: I have already tried osteopath treatments and it did not work at all, it was a disaster even. I tried yoga but it did not work either. I have little knowledge of the other [techniques] so I am eager to know more about them. But I do not think I will be able to try them, or at least not on"; | ||
| + | html += "the long term, because of the cost they generate. <br><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=blue>iGEM<\/font>: <b>Our project “Sleep with EpiC elegans” allows the study of the effects of a molecule naturally produced by the human body called Delta Sleep Inducing Peptide (DSIP) that helps falling asleep. People who suffer from insomnia or narcolepsy might have a deficiency in the quantity of DSIP produced. This is why it might be interesting to use it as the active molecule of a new medical treatment. If such a treatment where to exist, would you like to try it and why? <\/b><br>"; | ||
| + | html += "<i>What do you think of our project? What are the positive aspects that intrigues you and the negative ones that scare you off?<\/i><\/b>"; | ||
| + | html += "<font color=\"orange\">Coralie<\/font>: I find the project very interesting! The project and the work flow are very well laid out. On the one hand, you are trying to create an innovative treatment, but on the other hand, you also"; | ||
| + | html += "take into account alternative treatments for sleep disorders. I really like the idea of investigating other techniques and not just medication, even though their effects and efficiency towards sleep disorders have not been proven. The only drawback I have about.<\/p>"; | ||
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Revision as of 01:30, 13 October 2016
Sleep with EpiC elegans
Our main problematic concerns the sleeping troubles. The project Sleep with EpiC elegans tried to propose another solution to treat these disorders instead of use medications. In this part, we decided to be interested in the potential causes of sleep disorders by creating two forms that we diffused on streets and internet. We also considered the non-medication alternatives helping to decrease sleeping troubles. Finally, we also want to know the difficulties for people suffering from sleep disorders and we sucessed to have some interviews of them. Click on the picture to see more.. Click on the picture to see more.. As part of its project “Sleep with C elegans” the iGEM Bordeaux 2016 team carried out several interviews. The people interviewed suffer from minor or major sleep disorders. We were interested in their pathology, the causes and the medical consequences on their health. This constitutes the factual and scientific aspect of this disease: it is what motivates pharmaceutical industries to produce drugs, what motivates researchers to solve the mysteries of mechanisms leading to sleep disorders and what motivates the iGEM Bordeaux 2016 team to develop a treatment thanks to synthetic biology, that would be an alternative to a chemical treatment.
What does cause the sleep disorders ?
Survey and Street Interviews
How to solve our sleeping troubles?
Talking about sleep disorders
However, we were especially curious about the daily life of these people. We were interested in what they felt and about the impacts of sleep disorders on their routine. We explained our project and the benefits of synthetic biology in the development of treatments for sleep disorders. They gave us their opinion on the question.
Here under, you will find several testimonies. All the people interviewed have authorized the use of the information collected during an interview as part of our project. The text might have been modified in order to preserve the person's intimacy or for confidentiality reasons.
Click there to read the interview
