[BuggsBunny]

I keep getting up in the middle of the night to eat. I'm not hungry. Sometimes I'm not even aware I'm doing it until the next morning when the evidence is still there. I'm on ambien, flexeril, and klonipan at bedtime, along with my regular meds.

Does anyone else have this problem?

[theGirlNextDorm]

I don't have this problem, but I think I've heard that ambien can do weird stuff like that to your sleeping patterns. If you google "side effects of ambien" something might come up. If that's the case, a simple change in sleeping pills might make a difference.

[mgran]

I do this sometimes, it really messes with my attempts to lose weight. Last night, for example, I cooked myself a huge bowl of pasta with pesto sauce, a few nights before that I ate an entire tin of braised tofu, few nights before that two tubs of hummous.

It drives me mad, I don't think I'll ever lose weight.

[cybermember]

Sleep eating is one of the possible side effects of Ambien. There are a few others that are also strange but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

[RapidFlyer]

ambien definitely has a sleep eating side effect possibility. So does Lunesta. There are others out there that don't. I had to avoid both because of this very possibility.

I'm sorry your having this trouble. Hope you can get it fixed.

[BuggsBunny]

Thanks everyone for the info. Looks like it's time to change sleeping meds!

[bluegreengirl]

Originally Posted by BuggsBunny

I keep getting up in the middle of the night to eat. I'm not hungry. Sometimes I'm not even aware I'm doing it until the next morning when the evidence is still there. I'm on ambien, flexeril, and klonipan at bedtime, along with my regular meds.

Does anyone else have this problem?

yes i also have this problem until one morning my hubby woke up and found me eating at the kitchen table lol

[AniManiac]

My mom had this problem with Ambien. She also drove while sleeping, did her household chores while sleeping, would call people in this freakish drunk-like state (again, not awake, and often suicidal), and would fall and hurt herself pretty badly - she looked like a domestic violence case a few times. All from Ambien.

I would never touch that stuff with a 100-foot pole. Or any other hypnotics, for that matter. I'm too terrified the same kind of things could happen to me.

[mgran]

Oh my, I'm sorry that your Mom went through that! I was on one med that had me calling people while I was asleep, but I can't remember what it was. I was only on it a few weeks, and it caused me so much embarassment and shame. (People thought I was drunk.) I hope your Mom's okay now.

[Moose72]

Never taken it but I once read a blog where a man described ambien as "spongebob freakin squarepants in a pill".

[AniManiac]

Originally Posted by mgran

Oh my, I'm sorry that your Mom went through that! I was on one med that had me calling people while I was asleep, but I can't remember what it was. I was only on it a few weeks, and it caused me so much embarassment and shame. (People thought I was drunk.) I hope your Mom's okay now.

Well, she's much better off where she is now, let's put it that way... (died in 2007)

If I could un-remember anything in my life, those phone calls would be it. Talking mom down from suicide over the phone when she was so drugged up on sleep meds that she wouldn't remember it the next day? Awful.

That does kind of support the hypothesis that she was bipolar. Both the sleep problems and the drug-drunk bringing out the suicidal intentions. But it doesn't much matter now!