Getting Sleepy After Eating

Are you a physician? This could very well be an issue requiring medical attention.

I agree. It's mostly, (or probably,) WHAT is eaten and how much.

Hey Genie, I hear you girl. I'm a very active 63 year old woman and this has just started happening to me in the last 2 months. I need a nap after any meal, at any time, of any food types. I am pre-diabetic but have monitored and controlled blood sugar levels for over a year. Six years ago, my thyroid was removed because of nodules and therefore, I will be on synthroid, monitored by my endocrinologist for the rest of my life. My hormone levels are normal but I have been giving in to a after-meal-nap almost every meal, every day for about 6 weeks. I'm retired. I can do that, but I certainly do not think the increased intensity of the sleepiness is normal. I think we all understand a little drowsiness after a meal. But it is the intensity. Like being drunk or drugged. After reading all of these post, I no longer think I have some sort of illness. This is what I am going to do after eating. Exercise, walk, dance, stretch, if only for 5 -- 10 minutes after every meal. When at home, put on some music and makeup your own Zumba routine. When at work, walk to the deli in the next block. But don't take Uber back to the workplace. Walk back to work and take the stairs. No elevator ! ! ! We can deal with this. Good to know is not laziness.

Reactive hypoglycemia? Check it out- read about it and take the idea to your doc. Something that can be overlooked by medical community. I get what you're saying about extreme fatigue and the NEED to sleep after eating. It isn't the "normal" sluggishness folks are replying about it is a true ABNORMAL, devastating fatigue.

If you are at work and cannot lie down, you won't get tired as the digesting food goes to your cells to fuel your activity. Lying down is because the insulin that is secreted by the pancreas and makes you tired, as the nutrients are not needed at that time. Try this and see if it works for you. After eating take a walk and enjoy the day, whatever you are doing...just don't lie down and watch TV or read a book. Then the next time, lie down with 30 minutes after eating and watch TV or read and see if you feel drowsy and fall asleep. You will then be in control of this condition. There is nothing wrong with you. it is a normal human or mammal condition.

Just be sure to do the research on Wellbutrin if you plan to try it and you take other prescription meds. Wellbutrin has a very long list of drugs it has serious interactions with. Do your own research. Don't rely on your doctor or pharacist to alert you.

I am just like you. This started after my pancreas and spleen was removed. I believe the cause is a combination of rising and lowering blood sugar, plus that all of your energy is being utilized to digest food.
Horrid, a nightmare and sooo extremely scary.

Lol... Oh my goodness !! Now this is exactly how I feel. I'm 36 years old and have been dealing with this for about 6 years with no answers . I'm a female and don't know if its hormone related or what .. I'm like you though ... I would just soon die than to keep feeling this way !! Its horrible and no way to function a normal life especially having to work and tend to kids .. I just feel so depleted somewhere but no doctors can find anything at all wrong .. I'm so over it forreal!! I've tried changing everything with diet and self but still no avail .

There are a number of things that could be occurring , post hypotension, post hypoglycemia, and dehydration. Post hypotension can be a lethal condition causing stroke or heart attack. See a physician as soon as possible for diagnosis and treatment.

I have this same thing happening to me for years now., I have been tested for EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING; every organ in my body sonogramed, mri'd etc, by brain mri'd. My endocrine system checked for everything, every hormone thinkable. Psychiatric testing as a last resort, AND NOTHING wrong with me at all..... HOWEVER, the only thing that I can find is I got MYSELF tested for CANDIDA. Turns out it is in my blood. It lives off of carbs and sugar. If you have even taken a lot of antibiotics or drank a lot of alcohol it will kill off all the good bacteria in your intestines and allow the candida to take over. It can eventurally grow right through you intestines which allows all toxins and even food particles to leak through your intestines and into your blood stream, causing it to grow all through your body and causing all kinds of problems. Most western medical docs do not even recognize this as a medical condition UNTIL your body goes immune and they they will. In the meantime your whole body gets whacked out. This is the ONLY thing there is wrong with me. I am thinking this might have "something" to do with why the food is affecting me the way it does.

I can get up in the morning and feel great, rested, clear headed, have energy, etc., then I eat and BLAM within 15-20 minutes I feel like I was just sedated for surgery. Same exact feeling as if you were having surgery and they run an iv off in your arm. One second you are fine and then next blam, you are lucky to make it to the bed to lie down before you totally "go out". If I don't eat I feel fine, but you can't just not eat.

I now can eat almond butter, green veggies(no starchy ones), a small amount of dairy(not a lot), chicken, fish and some pork. Other than that there is nothing on my food list that will not cause me to go into a "coma". Once the food wears off, about 3 -4 hours later I feel okay again.

If this is candida that is causing all of this, carbs and sugar feeds it. But if you don't eat the foods that feed it, then you have what they call "die off" and the toxins from that make you all foggy headed and bonkers.

I don't know the answer to this, and my doc and all these different specialists can't find the problem nor an answer either. I'm at a loss what to do. It seems the only thing that helps is to not eat. In doing so I went from 185 pounds to 103 until I was dying from malnutrition, so cutting out all carbs and sugar is not healthy either.

I'm about to come to the point where I believe this is never going to get better and I'm just going to have to live like this for the rest of my life. I'll try to regulate this by staying on a strict diet with very little carbs.

I really hope that someone, somewhere, finds an answer to this medical problem. I've been dealing with this for over 15 years, and it is debilitating and depressing.

I'm a very active person, I'm in no way lazy and I get plenty of exercise. I drink tons of water all day and throughout the night. I just have no idea what I could possibly do any differently to make this stop. Hopefully, at some point, someone stumbles across an answer. I feel badly for anyone who has to go through this.

Join the club... Haven't found a real answer yet. Good luck

Really??? BIG help there. I eat a carrot and within 20 minutes I can't keep my eyes open... Large portions? What's that? If I ate a large portion I would never wake up so go tell it to someone else...

Thank You, for that explanation I do believe that is my problem, I am retired, not because I was ready by Husband request...I have got where I don't clean house or cook much anymore...and yes became a compute potato...so now I know to get up and MOVE !!!!

So guest what if one can not do anything else but to lay down an go to sleep known they are going to need sometime before they can get up ?

Why did you write if it's "normal" for you, other than to try to impress everyone that you work out? boring