Ambien Makes You Act the Fool

Ambien May Prompt Sleep-Eating

SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK, March 15, 2006
(CBS/The Early Show)

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"I would wake up in the morning and there would be candy wrappers all around the bed. There would be crumbs in the bed. There would be all kinds of evidence that someone had been eating in the bed. But I had absolutely no recollection of it."
Brenda Pobre, who says Ambien caused her to eat while sleeping. She says she gain more than 100 pounds as a result.


(CBS) Some people don't just walk in their sleep, they eat as well.

As sleep disorders go, it's one of the more bizarre, observes CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone.

He says Dr. Mark Mahowald and other sleep researchers have discovered that nocturnal eating may be a side effect of the popular sleep medication, Ambien.

That comes on the heels of reports that some Ambien users may drive while sleeping.

Mahowald, who's medical director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center in Minneapolis, tells Blackstone, "We've had people eat very inappropriate things that they would never eat while awake. Some example would be buttered cigarettes, salt sandwiches, raw bacon."

And sleep-binging could leave its mark – on waistlines.

"I put on over 100 pounds since I've been on Ambien," says Brenda Pobre, who couldn't figure out why she was gaining so much weight.


Mahowald points out that, "Sleep and wakefulness can occur simultaneously. Everybody thinks the brain is either all awake or all asleep, and that's not true. The brain can be literally half awake and half asleep."

Ambien's maker issued a statement saying the side effect is known but rare, and that "when taken as prescribed, Ambien is a safe and effective treatment for insomnia." The side effect is disclosed in the product's labeling material.





This guy is sleep eating



I heard on the radio that one man caught his wife mowing the lawn at one am



Sleep driving scares me!



The culprit!



And one lady said she had the best sex with her husband while he was whacked on Ambien and he didn't even remember.


All this makes me laugh so hard,I don't know why! It is unreal.
It is freaky.
And I will never take Ambien..I know I will be the dork driving down the 405 , smoking a cig(I quit 8 years ago), eating a Double Cheeseburger with some guy on my lap! Oh and then I'll go home and mow the lawn! And I will sleep through the whole thing and not remember. HA!

Ambien lawyers:this is just a joke :)