Question:
Has anybody had problems with sleep walking & eating?

My sister is almost 3 months post-op. She has been sleep eating for a few weeks now. She gets up in the morning to find empty food containers and rinsed dishes in the sink. She lives alone so she knows nobody else is doing it. She has opened up a whole large can of pineapple which there is no way she could eat the whole thing, but found the empty container, on another night she found mandarin oranges and tapioca...has anybody else experienced this?    — candymom64 (posted on April 3, 2002)

April 2, 2002
I saw this show on 48 hours on sleep eating http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/04/18/48hours/main286443.shtml sounds like what your describing and they can treat it. They dicussed extreme stress or stressful events being a trigger.
   — Laurie B.

April 3, 2002
I had a roommate in college with that exact problem. She was amazingly disciplined during the daytime, but would empty the cupboards at night. Her subconscious mind would cause her to overeat in her sleep! Beware, though, sleep eating with the RNY is DANGEROUS. You could burst open your pouch causing a staple line disruption, or something even worse. I would tell your sister she needs to see a psychologist immediately before she hurts herself.
   — Terissa R.

April 3, 2002
A friend of mine (also post-op) is a sleep eater. She has had episodes where she doesn't wake up until she is over the toilet throwing up from something she has eaten. She said that she found that if she ate too many carbs close to bedtime it would trigger this for her. Also, if she ate something sweet, not sugar, but anything sweet.
   — livnliter

April 3, 2002
Does she use any sleep aids, like ambien?
   — vitalady