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Food cue

Posted by NarcOMatix on August 12, 2003 at 13:13:10:

Hi everyone,
My story is there in "Reaction to ZzzI'm awake_really". Very glad to have discovered this site (well, my wife discovered it for me matter of fact).

My question is this,
does anyone of you recognize eating or not eating as some kind of cue for the excessive sleep attacks?

With me it somehow seems to matter just a tiny bit if my lunch is, like, one sandwich and a tiny bowl of soup, which is less than I need to feel like I've had lunch. If I eat much less than I'd like, my sleep spells seem a little less, sometimes. This would probably make you think 'well, eat less' but the amount in which I eat less is still disproportionately small as opposed to the amount in which the sleep lessens. Duuh...meaning: I have to drop my food-intake way too much to get just a little energy in return. My PG (I posed my problem to her today, she sent me straight to the Sleep Centers in the Hague to get a MSLT) said something like 'yeah, I recognize the food intake trigger'.
(I'm not a foodaddict, I exercise twice a week, quit smoking and don't do in-between snacks. I'm 5'7 and weigh 200 lbs.)

Plse post a reaction if breakfast or lunch seems to influence your sleep attack, thanx.

NarcOMatix from Holland



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