Sleeping pills: your experiences

Your stories of taking sleeping pills – do they really increase sleepwalking and eating at night? Here are your experiencesFollowing Tuesday's news that sleeping pills have been linked by new research to a higher death risk – readers have been telling us their accounts of using the drugs. The article highlights that some users have experienced sleepwalking, which can be hazardous, and eat at night, "resulting in poor diet and obesity". Here are the experiences of those who have been taking the drugs mentioned in the article.newcrossite echoed the findings of the study:As someone who takes mirtazapine, an antidepressant with sleep-inducing effects, this article did concern me at first glance.But I also know that this drug as well as all forms of benzodiazapines induce marked weight gain! I know somebody who put three stone on in three months with this drug. As far as I know, mirtazapine changes the...

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