Reply To: Eating Overrides Beneficial Effects of Medication

[Patte Rosebank]

@Honda, have you considered seeing an endocrinologist? You could have some sort of metabolic or hormonal issue.

I had symptoms like you describe, but long before I knew I had ADHD.

In my case, I was developing Type-2 Diabetes, and the drowsiness after eating was because my body was no longer properly breaking down the increased blood-glucose that happens when we eat.

Your symptoms could be a sign of pre-diabetes. Going too long without eating, makes blood-glucose go quite low. Then, when you eat something, blood-glucose suddenly soars, which makes you feel drowsy. In my case, I’d eat something, then quickly fall asleep on the couch for a couple of hours.

After my Diabetes diagnosis, I learned that it isn’t just about keeping blood-glucose low; it’s about keeping it in a fairly steady range, by advance-planning and scheduling of meals & snacks. (Not easy for an ADDer to do.)

There’s a specific test for Glucose Tolerance. After your fasting blood-glucose is checked, you’re given a very sugary solution to drink. After a while, they check your blood-glucose again, at intervals, to see how well your body has processed the sugar.

If this test shows that you have trouble keeping your blood-glucose steady, you can talk with the endocrinologist about ways to even it out.

What do you think?

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