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Fatigue after meals
Posted by: Ted
Date: October 7, 2001 9:06 PM

Extreme fatigue after meals. Today, at breakfast, ate four pancakes. 20 minutes later, felt lethargy. This happens most often after meals. Something wrong with my digestive system? Am I eating too many carbs?

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RE: Fatigue after meals
Posted by: Ron Kennedy, M.D.
Date: October 8, 2001 8:31 AM

Could be a couple things. You could have a grain sensitivity to whatever is used to make the pancakes. This is the most likely possibility. Alternatively you could be experiencing a diversion of blood flow to the gut to address the need for digestion, leaving your brain a bit depleted of oxygen. This would happen with every meal of comparable size. You would not have hypoglycemia show up after only 20 minutes, so I doubt this one.

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