Sleep Eating Associated With Ambien

March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Most of us have habit of sleeping late at night and than getting late in the morning. For some it has become regular schedule. Some of us have also observed and noticed that when we sleep late and get up early in the morning, than we feel tired and can not concentrate on our work properly. A normal grown up human being should sleep for 7-8 hrs daily. People who take proper sleep is more energetic, fresh and have full concentration on there work.

This behavior of sleeping late and not completing proper sleep cycle leads to sleep disorders like Insomnia. Insomnia is growing among all age groups and need to be taken care of. Insomnia is an inability to sleep. There are some factors associated with sleep disorders. Tension and depression are the main factors which causes Insomnia.

But now there is no need to worry about insomnia , we have sleeping pills to keep you out of this dilemma. There are so many sleeping pills available in the market but Ambien is the most prescribed drug. Ambien has cured millions of people in the world and is most preferred among all sleeping pills. There are some side effects of Ambien also. Some common side effects are drowsiness, dizziness and diarrhea, among all these one serious side effect is sleep eating. It has been observed recently that people start eating while they are asleep.

Sleep eating and Sleep driving are increasing after taking Ambien . In sleep eating patient get out of the bed and prepare food or sometimes take already prepared food and eat it there and go back to bed. They do not have any memories of all this. They wake up in the morning find crumbs of food in the kitchen or near bed. This is a serious problem because a person is not aware what he/she is doing and may cut fingers or may fall in some other serious problem. Another health problem related to sleep eating is Obesity. People take so much of fatty food in sleep and that fat makes them Obese.

All this must be amusing for normal person but this is not a matter of amusement. Person taking any sleeping pill or face sleep eating than consult doctor as soon as possible.

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Ambien and Sleep Eating

August 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A slight change in your sleeping schedule could mean a whole day wasted the next day because the sleeping disorder is the enemy of normalcy. And this normalcy is most treasured by those who are deprived of normal life due to insomnia or popularly known as sleeping disorder.

There are unfortunate few out there who face insomnia everyday even after trying hard to get sleep by normal mode like physical exercise and following a good eating schedule. For those unfortunate few, fortunately, we have sleeping pills to take care of their dilemma. Sleeping pills, like Ambien, are a boon for the insomniac. Suddenly, they have found their lives back on track after suffering uncertainty for so long.

Ambien drug is perhaps the most popular sleeping pill in the world. Ambien is prescribes as a short-term prescription drug used to treat insomnia . Ambien has been shown to decrease sleep latency and increase the duration of sleep for up to 35 days in controlled clinical studies. Of course, there are some side effects to Ambien also.

Almost every drug manufactured in the world has some kind of side effect and Ambien should not be seen as any different just because it is extremely popular. Ambien side effects are known to be moderate but of late, we are witnessing a peculiar side effect to this drug. Sleep eating is being seen as another offshoot of Ambien side effects.

Michael H. Silber, MD, and co-director of the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorder Center first reported this strange phenomenon in 2002. According to Silber, “What happens is the patients get out of bed, walk to the kitchen, prepare food – often sloppily, and often with strange, high-calorie ingredients. They have microwave food sometimes.

They eat in a very sloppy way, either in the kitchen or after taking the food back to bed. And they have no memory of it. They wake to find a mess in the kitchen or crumbs in the bed.” The acuteness of the situation could vary from patient to patient. Nocturnal eating disorder or sleep eating is closely associated with this phenomenon. Normally, it is not injurious, but if left untreated, it could play havoc with the natural eating schedule and natural movements of the body organs could go haywire.

Sleep walking and sleep eating could be amusing to normal persons, but this is certainly not a laughing matter for the patients and they must seek medical help as soon as possible to get rid of the problem.

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