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Posted 6/17/2019 2:26 AM (GMT 0)
This is a new symptom for me. I don’t know what to make of it.

I have only noticed it happening at lunch and maybe supper. Never noticed it at breakfast. Mainly at lunch.

I feel okay when I start eating, and then after a few bites, I get overwhelming fatigue like I’m going to fall asleep in my plate, and I close my eyes and rest my head in my hand a minute.

I keep eating and it passes a few minutes later.

I’ve never had this until just recently. What in the world does this mean?
Posted 6/17/2019 1:24 PM (GMT 0)
Are you eating something different than before? Wondering if a food allergy might cause that. I noticed those type symptoms a long time ago, but have not had them since.
Posted 6/17/2019 1:25 PM (GMT 0)
When that happens to me it's MCAS. Any chance you are eating high-histamine food when this happens?

Alternatively, maybe it's a food intolerance, or issues with sugars and/or simple carbs if you have candida?
Posted 6/17/2019 1:45 PM (GMT 0)
Sara,

MCAS is something I wondered about since I was having those allergic type symptoms recently after bad mold exposure. The initial symptoms have been much better. I haven’t seemed to react to foods and herbs like I was. This thing with fatigue while eating seemed to start after the other faded out.

It’s not different foods. I usually go to a restaurant at lunch and get a dinner - usually chicken and vegetables. I eat half and take the rest home for supper. The fatigue seems to mainly happen at lunch, though.

I have had a big uptick in exercise intolerance and muscle fatigue since that mold exposure. I vacuumed yesterday and had to stop several times, feeling out of breath and like falling over.

I don’t think it would be Candida. I cheated and ate some sweets yesterday. Nothing happened when I ate the sweets. Only with meat and vegetable meals, as far as I can remember.

Post Edited (WalkingbyFaith) : 6/17/2019 7:49:06 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 6/17/2019 1:46 PM (GMT 0)

running wild said...
Are you eating something different than before? Wondering if a food allergy might cause that. I noticed those type symptoms a long time ago, but have not had them since.

Did you do something different that made it stop?
Posted 6/17/2019 1:59 PM (GMT 0)
Not to obsess about the food, but maybe the restaurant puts something in the sauce that you are reacting to? Or maybe something you walk past on the way, like a flowering tree? Cleaning products in the restaurant? Does it still happen at lunch time on days you stay home all day?

This must be so frustrating! I'm so sorry about the increased symptoms and exertion intolerance. I know how much perseverance it takes to vacuum when you have to stop a bunch of times just to get through it. You are a warrior! There will be better days than this.
Posted 6/17/2019 5:51 PM (GMT 0)
This happens to me too. I get overwhelmingly tired and feel like I need to lie down almost immediately after eating. Mine mainly happens with supper. I eat heavier meals at supper though. I always thought for me that because my digestive system is so compromised from parasites and candida, that it took my body a lot more energy than normal to digest the heavier meal as with supper. And because it was requiring more energy, my body just couldn't keep up. Who knows if that's really what it is, but it's what I contributed it to. For me it very well could be food allergies or sensitivities though. It's really annoying.
Posted 6/17/2019 8:45 PM (GMT 0)
This used to happen to me a lot—I used to get so sleepy. Now I just feel like I have to sit down. I rarely have the energy to do the dishes until later.
Posted 6/17/2019 11:51 PM (GMT 0)
WBF - I started eating more "plain" foods, as in was careful what I put on it Things that seem to set it off, along with migraines at times, were cheese and sugar (obvious ones), seasonings, certain salad dressings, and the hidden ingredients, as alluded to by saraeli, at restaurants.

Now i eat at restaurants where they know me and understand the importance of no seasonings, no extra salt (for blood pressure), no butter, etc... Not saying that is causing it, but I no longer get tired after eating,,,, just tired all the time smile. But this was a while back before I started getting the daily fatigue/fever, and the changes did help. Hope you find an answer.
Posted 6/18/2019 4:02 AM (GMT 0)
This started happening to me as well recently. I also started getting an upset stomach when I eat pizza. I’ve started having some gut issues though since starting Cymbalta, so it might be related to that for me. I’ve been sick for 7 years and this just started happening like 2 weeks ago. I get very sleepy when I have food with MSG, so it’s been weird to get that reaction with other foods.
Posted 6/18/2019 4:27 PM (GMT 0)
A lot of people get sleepy after eating, but I was worse than the "normal" people who complained about it. Dangerously worse if I was or needed to drive after eating.

For me the difference was:
1) Getting on natural thyroid med instead of synthetic

2) treating lyme

3)lastly (biggest difference) - identifying food intolerances (years), thus improving my leaky gut (took years) and controlling blood sugar high spikes (herbs for it and eating less sugar).
Posted 6/18/2019 6:34 PM (GMT 0)
My husband gets very tired after he eats - this all started prior to being diagnosed as hypothyroid.

The Levo helps a lot but isn’t 100% better.
He could prob use a little bump up in his med... but his labs show it’s not warranted ... sigh.

WBF - have you done thyroid labs lately?
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