Health Care Providers and Night Eating Syndrome

Hopefully you can explain more effectively to your physician how you are affected by night eating syndrome. For example, lack of sleep may be your main concern, and you may suspect that you have a sleep disorder in addition to night eating syndrome. In that case, tell your doctor about the symptoms you have noticed. Also report what your sleeping partner (if you have one) has observed about your sleeping habits. This may include loud snoring, gasping for air, jerking of your legs or arms, or violent night terrors. Being able to report these problems will allow your doctor to make appropriate diagnoses and perhaps to give you a referral to a sleep specialist.

If you do not have symptoms of other sleep disorders, but you are overweight or obese, talk to your physician about the impact your night eating syndrome is having on your weight. This will give him or her more insight into why it has been so difficult to lose some of the weight that is adversely affecting your health. If you haven’t told your physician about your night eating, he or she may think that you haven’t tried to follow the weight loss recommendations that were given to you at past visits. Be sure to be clear about the efforts you’ve already put forth.

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