Does anyone else have any of the following:
A history of fondness, sometimes almost craving, for salt or salty foods?
A history of mood swings amounting almost to personality changes, possibly begun in adolescence, maybe less extreme as you've aged?
Difficulty in controlling appetite so that you finish eating bloated but still craving more, especially with carbohydrate based foods?
Lifelong digestion problems, possibly only moderate, maybe periodical, which may have begun in childhood with bouts of reflux or dyspepsia, and which have may have gotten slowly worse over the years?
Problems of any sort with alcohol, e.g. over-fondness, intolerance, allergy, addiction, etc?
Longstanding, hugely fluctuating energy levels, i.e. some days you're tireless and everything is a breeze, other days you just feel so drained and lethargic, physically, mentally, spiritually? This may have been going on to one extent or another for decades, and is unrelated to anything else; it will always have seemed purely random. Your doctor will have probably just advised you to take more excersise, or give up smoking, or lose weight, or cut down on drink etc etc, but none of these have really cured things, and you've always known that there was much more to it than that?
Tremulousness, especially of the hands, during moments of stress or tension, like in certain confrontational situations?
Like before, just looking for common ground.
I can report that drinking more water is helping.... could this be a form of dehydration? was recently able to eat half a sandwich at a conference with no ill effects....
So....if getting sleepy after eating is normal.....should I start eating right before going to bed?
I had blood work ran & everything came back OKAY, I AM MISERABLE...Turned 35 this year and FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME! I literally couldn't even focus on my screen Tuesday and had my sister come pick me up and take me to a clinic which performed, Diabetic, Thyroid, Anemia blood work & I took home a Sleep Apnea tester to ck for that as well...ALL came back normal....PLEASE HELP if you know of ANYTHING else it could be.
I have noticed that I often feel sleepy if I am dehydrated. Try drinking more clean water. I have also noticed it helps relieve my headaches.
It might be the types of foods you're consuming. If you eat a lot of greasy food it makes you sleep.
Still finding less coffee and more water working. I was up to 4-5 coffees with alot of desk based thinking. i am at maybe 2 coffees with double the water, and so far no post lunch snoozing has reappeared. Try this KittyAlone! and Tif read the blog - this is not about the food type - my diet is healthier and smaller than most of the people around me.
I was just in an online overeaters anonymous meeting drowning my anger and grief in a tub of chocolate chip cookie dough behind the anonymity of the screen when someone mentioned being sleepy after eating and I started researching and found this site.
I had weight loss surgery 7 months ago, lost 140 lbs and have now gained back at least 8 of that. I have found myself overcome w almost passing out sleepiness after eating ever since the surgery. I was diabetic before surgery and after it seemed to be in total remission (83% of ppl who have my kind of wls are cured!) so I stopped checking my blood sugars.
Finding myself now nearly penniless and doctorless, I am scared that this could be my blood sugar getting way too high after eating cuz I am eating so much junk (in tiny amounts but steadily).
I moved 3 times this summer and can't find my meter to check plus I am afraid to do it.
I had weight loss surgery 7 months ago, lost 140 lbs and have now gained back at least 8 of that. I have found myself overcome w almost passing out sleepiness after eating ever since the surgery. I was diabetic before surgery and after it seemed to be in total remission (83% of ppl who have my kind of wls are cured!) so I stopped checking my blood sugars.
Finding myself now nearly penniless and doctorless, I am scared that this could be my blood sugar getting way too high after eating cuz I am eating so much junk (in tiny amounts but steadily).
I moved 3 times this summer and can't find my meter to check plus I am afraid to do it.
@ uhbsl,
Sorry for the delay responding to your post. I hope you read this and get back..Sounds like you too have a lot more going on than just sleepiness. I'm no doctor, (and I know I'm not your dad!), but you really need to get your sugar levels looked at, it could be dangerous to ignore this. Obviously you know that yourself; I've an uncomfortable feeling that you're perhaps a bit too 'down' to care very much; maybe even a subconscious self-harm thing going on. No offense, just that's how it looks reading from a screen.
Your post seems to imply that before the surgery you had diabetes, and now that you've lost weight and the diabetes is in remission, you've developed 'Sleepiness After Eating Syndrome'. Is that right? Or did you suffer from "SAES" - perhaps to a lesser extent - even before youre surgery? This may be significant.
As I said earlier up the thread, I'm looking for common ground. You mention moving several times, and this makes me wonder if, lately, you may be getting less sunlight than previously due to the design of your more recent accomodation. I mention this because I live in a very gloomy flat that doesn't get much daylight and I found out a couple of years ago that I was deficient in vitamin D. I now take a prescribed vit D supplement. How much good it does me is perhaps questionable, but I wonder if there is a link with my/our tiredness symptoms.
Please check your sugar levels, I know you're probably reluctant to find out, but if the problem is coming back, it may be getting worse all the time. Hopefully and probably not, but you do need to know. Also I'd be grateful for any info about any reduction in daylight that you may have been getting lately. Good luck mate.
Sorry for the delay responding to your post. I hope you read this and get back..Sounds like you too have a lot more going on than just sleepiness. I'm no doctor, (and I know I'm not your dad!), but you really need to get your sugar levels looked at, it could be dangerous to ignore this. Obviously you know that yourself; I've an uncomfortable feeling that you're perhaps a bit too 'down' to care very much; maybe even a subconscious self-harm thing going on. No offense, just that's how it looks reading from a screen.
Your post seems to imply that before the surgery you had diabetes, and now that you've lost weight and the diabetes is in remission, you've developed 'Sleepiness After Eating Syndrome'. Is that right? Or did you suffer from "SAES" - perhaps to a lesser extent - even before youre surgery? This may be significant.
As I said earlier up the thread, I'm looking for common ground. You mention moving several times, and this makes me wonder if, lately, you may be getting less sunlight than previously due to the design of your more recent accomodation. I mention this because I live in a very gloomy flat that doesn't get much daylight and I found out a couple of years ago that I was deficient in vitamin D. I now take a prescribed vit D supplement. How much good it does me is perhaps questionable, but I wonder if there is a link with my/our tiredness symptoms.
Please check your sugar levels, I know you're probably reluctant to find out, but if the problem is coming back, it may be getting worse all the time. Hopefully and probably not, but you do need to know. Also I'd be grateful for any info about any reduction in daylight that you may have been getting lately. Good luck mate.
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful post. I do have tons more going on that after meal sleepiness. I have had the mental health diagnoses of Major Depression, BiPolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, Schizophrenia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mood Disorder NOS, Personality Disorder NOS. If the docs can't even figure it out, how am I supposed to do so? I am labeled as "Chronically Mentally Ill" and many doctors and therapists in the system (for me this is the American Medicaid System as run by California's state Medi-CAL mess! God help us when Obamacare takes over!) don't want to care for me because of the labels and multiple hospitalizations. I have worked in the field myself for many years so I know I am not paranoid when I think that they think, "oh, shes just a crazy old lady", and ignore my input.
I also have Asthma, Diabetes, Morbid Obesity, Willis-Ekbom Disease, Hypothyroidism, Episodic Hypertension, Osteoarthritis throughout my skeletal system, Condromalasia, Ruptured disks in my neck and back, and am post total hysterectomy due to PolyCysticOvarian disease, post bilateral pulmonary emboli, post Renal Cell Carcinoma and Right Radical Nephrectomy.
I am in pain all the time, I am never totally pain free and much of the time I am so crippled up that I cannot walk very far and I cannot stand long enough to get ice cubes into a glass, refill the ice tray and pour a drink. So I use a walker w a seat or a wheelchair.
Since my post the eating has gotten much worse. I am scared all the time about the weight gain and the possibility of damaging my new stomach. (as I posted before I had Weight Loss surgery (Bariatric Surgery, specifically, Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy) November 22 of last year, 2011)
As for Vitamin D deficiency. I was taking 2000 IU for a few months after surgery and I noticed a definite uplift but I have since moved from gloomy Washington state to Sunny California and the amount of sunshine I am getting now is incredible! I do not purposefully go out to soak up the rays, but I am nevertheless turning brown from going out just too and from the car every day. I did not want to get Vitamin D poisoning so I stopped taking it. I know that I need an evaluation but it has taken me 3 months to get a primary care doctor's appointment and may be another 2 months before I can get in to see a psychiatrist. I started rationing my meds therefore and then finally ran out. Thankfully the mental health agency where I finally had an intake this month, go their doctor to contact my previous doctor and prescribe 15 tablets to hold me until I an get in.
Medi-CAL does not allow a patient more than 6 prescriptions per month unless the doctor goes to bat for his patients and fights for cause to have more. I am not confident at all that a doctor will go to bat for me that way...it is very time consuming to be on hold with Medi-CAL and call backs, etc and time is money and Medi-CAL pays so limited an amount that sometimes the doctor's overhead for the appointment is more than the reimbusement! He actually loses money every time he sees a Medi-CAL patient!
My mother is on hospice care and so all the difficult emotions for that situation are going on too. She was pretty abusive to us kids when we were little and stood by or left when my father beat us. She is feeling guilty and we are all for the first time ever (I am 56, she is 92 and there are 4 of us kids-all grown) openly discussing all of this. It is very emotionally painful, but I believe it is healing too. We decided to move to CA mainly because while we were thinking about coming here in a few years, she doesn't have that long so we moved a bit earlier than expected.
We had to borrow $4,000 for the move so that we could hire packers and loaders. We drove our own truck but we are both disabled so just couldn't do it ourselves. My husband has yet to find a replacement part-time job and we were legally separated up until now so we merged 2 apts into 1 and there is no room to turn around. On top of that my social security benefits were cut severly by our moving in together because his income is considered sufficient for 2 (net $1295/mo w our rent being $640 of that so we literally cannot pay all our bills each month even if all our food came from the food banks.) We are not eligible for food stamps and the whole welfare and social security system is so mind-bogglingly complicated that I spend most of my time on the phone trying to find resources just to survive.
I am trained as a Mental Health Counselor and because I have a Masters degree the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation will not retrain me for anything else. Being chronically mentally ill it is unlikely that I can make a living in that arena. But I am trying to do so by working online. So far I have had 4 clients but only received about $75 in income which cost me over $150 to get! LOL.
I need new glasses but they are not covered by Medi-CAL, I need a dental exam (not covered), and I need a colonoscopy since there were polyps discovered at my last one. I want to see a specialist for an endrocrinology work up. Primary care doctors do not prescribe pain medications so I also need a referral to a pain specialist. I need knee replacement surgery but I am considered too fat and too young. I often despair of ever getting all of these needs met.
However, I do have a wonderful God who loves me no matter what and forgives me all that I have had a hand in in causing all of my problems. I do not take full responsibility but I do own "my part" . I have a wonderful and loving church family and a marvelous young pastor. My husband and I are enjoying each other's company and even worshiping together for the first time in very many years. I love the sunshine and so does my husband. We are actually mostly happy because of all the above. So one day at a time we tackle the rest of life.
Thank you so much for the opportunity to respond and for your interest. May you find the fellowship for which you long.
I also have Asthma, Diabetes, Morbid Obesity, Willis-Ekbom Disease, Hypothyroidism, Episodic Hypertension, Osteoarthritis throughout my skeletal system, Condromalasia, Ruptured disks in my neck and back, and am post total hysterectomy due to PolyCysticOvarian disease, post bilateral pulmonary emboli, post Renal Cell Carcinoma and Right Radical Nephrectomy.
I am in pain all the time, I am never totally pain free and much of the time I am so crippled up that I cannot walk very far and I cannot stand long enough to get ice cubes into a glass, refill the ice tray and pour a drink. So I use a walker w a seat or a wheelchair.
Since my post the eating has gotten much worse. I am scared all the time about the weight gain and the possibility of damaging my new stomach. (as I posted before I had Weight Loss surgery (Bariatric Surgery, specifically, Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy) November 22 of last year, 2011)
As for Vitamin D deficiency. I was taking 2000 IU for a few months after surgery and I noticed a definite uplift but I have since moved from gloomy Washington state to Sunny California and the amount of sunshine I am getting now is incredible! I do not purposefully go out to soak up the rays, but I am nevertheless turning brown from going out just too and from the car every day. I did not want to get Vitamin D poisoning so I stopped taking it. I know that I need an evaluation but it has taken me 3 months to get a primary care doctor's appointment and may be another 2 months before I can get in to see a psychiatrist. I started rationing my meds therefore and then finally ran out. Thankfully the mental health agency where I finally had an intake this month, go their doctor to contact my previous doctor and prescribe 15 tablets to hold me until I an get in.
Medi-CAL does not allow a patient more than 6 prescriptions per month unless the doctor goes to bat for his patients and fights for cause to have more. I am not confident at all that a doctor will go to bat for me that way...it is very time consuming to be on hold with Medi-CAL and call backs, etc and time is money and Medi-CAL pays so limited an amount that sometimes the doctor's overhead for the appointment is more than the reimbusement! He actually loses money every time he sees a Medi-CAL patient!
My mother is on hospice care and so all the difficult emotions for that situation are going on too. She was pretty abusive to us kids when we were little and stood by or left when my father beat us. She is feeling guilty and we are all for the first time ever (I am 56, she is 92 and there are 4 of us kids-all grown) openly discussing all of this. It is very emotionally painful, but I believe it is healing too. We decided to move to CA mainly because while we were thinking about coming here in a few years, she doesn't have that long so we moved a bit earlier than expected.
We had to borrow $4,000 for the move so that we could hire packers and loaders. We drove our own truck but we are both disabled so just couldn't do it ourselves. My husband has yet to find a replacement part-time job and we were legally separated up until now so we merged 2 apts into 1 and there is no room to turn around. On top of that my social security benefits were cut severly by our moving in together because his income is considered sufficient for 2 (net $1295/mo w our rent being $640 of that so we literally cannot pay all our bills each month even if all our food came from the food banks.) We are not eligible for food stamps and the whole welfare and social security system is so mind-bogglingly complicated that I spend most of my time on the phone trying to find resources just to survive.
I am trained as a Mental Health Counselor and because I have a Masters degree the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation will not retrain me for anything else. Being chronically mentally ill it is unlikely that I can make a living in that arena. But I am trying to do so by working online. So far I have had 4 clients but only received about $75 in income which cost me over $150 to get! LOL.
I need new glasses but they are not covered by Medi-CAL, I need a dental exam (not covered), and I need a colonoscopy since there were polyps discovered at my last one. I want to see a specialist for an endrocrinology work up. Primary care doctors do not prescribe pain medications so I also need a referral to a pain specialist. I need knee replacement surgery but I am considered too fat and too young. I often despair of ever getting all of these needs met.
However, I do have a wonderful God who loves me no matter what and forgives me all that I have had a hand in in causing all of my problems. I do not take full responsibility but I do own "my part" . I have a wonderful and loving church family and a marvelous young pastor. My husband and I are enjoying each other's company and even worshiping together for the first time in very many years. I love the sunshine and so does my husband. We are actually mostly happy because of all the above. So one day at a time we tackle the rest of life.
Thank you so much for the opportunity to respond and for your interest. May you find the fellowship for which you long.
Thanks for getting back. I've been surfing around and it seems that excessive tiredness - whether after eating or not - isn't particularly associated with vitamin D deficiency (caused by lack of sunlight). This seems borne out by the fact that you've been getting plenty of sunshine and still getting tired after food.
However, in your case there are so many other health issues that it would be very difficult for even an expert to narrow down the causes of your sleepiness. It could be any number of the illnesses you've listed, possibly in conjunction with other factors. For what it's worth, though, with so many unpleasant conditions affecting you, I'd have to say that the tiredness is a good candidate for being the least of your troubles. At least it doesn't appear to be dangerous, unlike unchecked diabetes.
All things considered, I congratulate you for coping with so many difficulties with such comparitive positivity, and I hope your faith continues to bolster your fortitude. Sincere best wishes for the future.
However, in your case there are so many other health issues that it would be very difficult for even an expert to narrow down the causes of your sleepiness. It could be any number of the illnesses you've listed, possibly in conjunction with other factors. For what it's worth, though, with so many unpleasant conditions affecting you, I'd have to say that the tiredness is a good candidate for being the least of your troubles. At least it doesn't appear to be dangerous, unlike unchecked diabetes.
All things considered, I congratulate you for coping with so many difficulties with such comparitive positivity, and I hope your faith continues to bolster your fortitude. Sincere best wishes for the future.
If you smoke a cigarett after a big meal you won't have that bloated feeling. Its also good for clearing up congestion if your sinuses run constantly due to hay feaver or pollen. Just don't do it so often that you age rapidly like alot of heavy smokers I've seen. Remember, everything in moderation ;-)
I would be interested to hear what part of the country everyone is from & the ph of the water & if you are eating organic & from scratch or from premade kit type foods. We had never experienced this until moving to the midwest from the west coast. When we first moved here we jokingly called it the midwest sleeping sickness. For a year now my entire family has been experiencing this food coma. We fall asleep after eating where ever we are, what ever we are doing, school, work, outside. It is not sleepiness, it is sleep, like being drugged.
We are all different fitness levels & ages & weight, one is a exbody builder who's fitness level is extremely important to him, one a teenager who is active and a fit size 6, a 30ish thin trim bit underweight female, and me middle aged female, 20 pounds overweight, who is pretty active and walks a few miles a day.
None of us have any known allergies. I don't know if this is something that has happened to us because of some evironmental item in the area we have moved or if it's something new that is in the food chain.
Here are my observations of what changed when we made this move. We went from a ph9 water to 6.5 ... we have installed a reverse osmosis water purifier incase it was bad water, might still be but the contaminants would getting through the purifier. We went from eating 50% or more organic to almost none because of limited financial means.
I've ruled out sick house syndrome (chemical off gassing etc.) because as long as I don't eat I'm fine and full of life.
2 of us take several vitamins daily 2 of us never remember to take vitamins.
Everyone get adequate sunlight daily.
Only one member of the family drinks daily sodas, I probably only have one soda every week to two weeks. Because of finances I find myself using more wheat products as fillers then in the past. 2 of us have 1 cup of coffee a day, the other 2 don't drink coffee, one has stopped drinking all caffine and it hasn't changed anything about the sleeping sickness. I don't feel sleepy when I eat a beef steak and plain salad with cucumbers and lettuce. Noone feels sleepy from drinks, just eating. I also don't feel sleeping from my favorite drink which is a fruit slushy. It would be a smoothy but with water instead of dairy.
It doesn't seem to care weather if I only eat a 200 calorie meal same sleeping sickness.
What I'm wondering about the quality of the wheat / veges we eat. There are a lot of new genetically enginered foods on the market as well as corn syrup seems to be in everything. The wheat from bread, pastas etc... which may have been fine for us a few years ago have been enginered to have there own pesticide in them.... Does that translate over to humans. Big business says no, but Im not too sure thats true. It seems the worst if I buy pre-made freezer meals or fast food.
So in our situation weight, fitness, age, meal portion, caffine, soda, vitamins supplements and deficancies have all been ruled out as the common denominator.
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Very interesting post. A bit frustrating too, because you 've eliminated so many possible causes. So you all now suffer from 'eatsleep', and only since you moved, yes? And the only changes seem to be the water PH and the lack of organic foodstuffs. I confess that I usually dismiss 'modern world' worries as being a bit faddish, but you've got me wondering now. G M'd food crops? I suppose it's a possible cause. The only other thing I can think of that is now different for you is the sudden change from coastal air. I seem to remember reading somewhere that sea air is more enervating (due to the ozone?), and you are now suddenly deprived of it. I'm reaching here, and it doesn't explain the onset of my own sleeping sickness, but maybe worth a thought.
Very interesting post. A bit frustrating too, because you 've eliminated so many possible causes. So you all now suffer from 'eatsleep', and only since you moved, yes? And the only changes seem to be the water PH and the lack of organic foodstuffs. I confess that I usually dismiss 'modern world' worries as being a bit faddish, but you've got me wondering now. G M'd food crops? I suppose it's a possible cause. The only other thing I can think of that is now different for you is the sudden change from coastal air. I seem to remember reading somewhere that sea air is more enervating (due to the ozone?), and you are now suddenly deprived of it. I'm reaching here, and it doesn't explain the onset of my own sleeping sickness, but maybe worth a thought.
Thank you...you are well advised, the previous poster should not be giving such ill advised advice, it could be dangerous for someone
who has an undiagnosed condition that needs treatment.
who has an undiagnosed condition that needs treatment.