Are you taking sleeping pills?
March 16th, 2006 by NancyIf you are, check this out:
Strange behavior by insomniacs taking prescription drugs, ranging from binge eating to having sex while asleep, have raised safety questions about anti-insomnia medications like Sanofi-Aventis’ Ambien.
Apparently, these side effects “have been around for years, but the incidence is rising because of an explosion in the drugs’ use.”
About 30 million people in the United States take sleep medications, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. By some counts that is a 50 percent jump since the beginning of the decade.
“Some of the most serious side effects are short-term memory loss, and accidents involving patients who drive the next day while still feeling drugged.”
Other sleep medications (besides Ambien) include Lunesta from Sepracor Inc. and Sonata made by King Pharmaceuticals Inc.
[This information is from a Reuters article by Kim Dixon dated March 14, 2006.]
March 18th, 2006 at 10:52 am
This is just non-sense !! We hear about people driving after they had a pill(s), eating without remembering or urinating in the middle of the intersection !!
People should know that if you take a pill in order to sleep, it is recommended not to take the car… Just read the notice