Sleep meds warning

Just an FYI it is only indirectly cancer related, but since I know that
many cancer patients and their caregivers use some sort of sleep
medicine to cope with the disease, I am posting this and a link to an
FDA labeling change for 13 sleep medicines that have some fairly strange
side effects.

http://tinyurl.com/2tv7a9

In addition to allergic reactions the first time they are taken, these
medicines may cause people who are still mostly asleep to drive a car,
make telephone calls, prepare and eat food and not remember any of it.

Here's a list of the medicines in this "sedative/hypnotic" class:
********* Ambien/Ambien CR (Sanofi Aventis)
********* Butisol Sodium (Medpointe Pharm HLC) 

********* Carbrital (Parke-Davis) 

********* Dalmane (Valeant Pharm) 

********* Doral (Questcor Pharms) 

********* Halcion (Pharmacia & Upjohn) 

********* Lunesta (Sepracor)
********* Placidyl (Abbott) 

********* Prosom (Abbott) 

********* Restoril (Tyco Healthcare) 

********* Rozerem (Takeda) 

********* Seconal (Lilly) 

********* Sonata (King Pharmaceuticals)

Important to take care if you or a family member is using one of these
drugs. It is also important to let your doctor know if you have a weird
experience while taking the drug and insist that it be reported to the
FDA Medwatch system so that the full extent of the problem can be
analyzed.