Ambien Symptoms Are Funny?!

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John Schutkeker - 18 Mar 2006 18:50 GMT

On NPR this morning, Peter Segel reported that when Ambien users eat in
their sleep, they messily eat "strange, high calorie foods," which they
sometimes take back to bed with them. I can just imagine a woman's husband
waking up in the morning to find the bedding decorated with the remains of
a sandwich made from peanut butter, roast beef, ice cream, ranch dressing
and potato salad. I laughed soooo hard!!!

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Bill - 19 Mar 2006 04:46 GMT

> On NPR this morning, Peter Segel reported that when Ambien users eat in
> their sleep, they messily eat "strange, high calorie foods," which they
> sometimes take back to bed with them. I can just imagine a woman's husband
> waking up in the morning to find the bedding decorated with the remains of
> a sandwich made from peanut butter, roast beef, ice cream, ranch dressing
> and potato salad. I laughed soooo hard!!!

I once posted on Usenet in my sleep. I saw a math problem posted by a kid, but
I was too tired to answer it. The next day I found the post from me. I double
checked the headings etc. It was at I time I was asleep. All was right in the
post except for some arithmetic problems. I must have felt guilty for not
answering, or something.

Bill

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John Schutkeker - 20 Mar 2006 14:51 GMT

>> On NPR this morning, Peter Segel reported that when Ambien users eat
>> in their sleep, they messily eat "strange, high calorie foods," which
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> asleep. All was right in the post except for some arithmetic problems.
> I must have felt guilty for not answering, or something.

It was algebra, I assume. You must have been good at math, as well as
medicine. I conjecture that Ambien activates our mechanical memory,
which controls driving, making food, eating and probably walking. Do
you suppose there are ambien housewives cleaning in their sleep or
exercise jocks working out in their sleep? Why should the list end with
driving and eating?

In your case, the mechanical activities were web surfing and solving
technical problems. I can see why an MD might be frustrated at not
having an outlet for his math skills. Even if you're a researcher, you
won't have occasion to do real math for crunching stats, because all the
refined work has already been published. You just have to get 35
patients who don't drop out of your study, and you've got your 95%
reliability. The trick is correcting for the dropouts by getting an
oversupply of participants. You'd need 35 patients (mu) + 1.5 sigma
(IMO) to get a 95% chance of correcting for the dropouts. Nobody ever
measured what sigma is.

It's nice to meet a guy I can talk medical math with.

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