I know you all know I am a reader. So here's the latest that I found today that I think is quite interesting. I also have sleep apnea so I keep up on the latest sleep studies.
I thought this one was pretty funny -- probably not to those who experience it though
Here it is:
New reports appear to confirm weird behavior in patients taking the world's most popular sleeping pill ( I have chosen not to name it)
Perhaps the strangest of these behaviors is sleep eating.
It was first reported in 2002 by Michael H. Silber, MD co-director of the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorder Center. Silber is the president elect of the American Adacemy of Sleep Medicine.
"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" 
In each case the patient took the medication as prescribed. He has now seen some 20 cases.
"It could be injurious -- but I have not had anyone who set the kitchen on fire" --
"The most important thing is the severe embarassement and discomfort these patients experience. And some put on a lot of weight due to high-calorie sleep eating. 
" We have some patients who have had it hapapen often -- in one patient, more than once a night."
Hmmmmm maybe we can blame our extra fluffiness on sleep eating-- I know none of us have munched high calorie stuff during our waking
hours
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jan
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