Carbs

I decided to eat a 1/4 cup of rice with dinner the other day. My first time having carbs since surg.  Well soon after I ate I started getting very sleepy. I woke up 3 hours later.

Is this normal?   Can we not handle carbs after being off them so long?

I had some Jello instant fat & sugar free chocolate pudding for lunch today.. It has nearly 15 grams of carbs... the highest amount of carbs in any food item for me.  I soon felt sleepy and took a 20 minute nap.. But woke up feeling refreshed.

if you're use to a very low carb diet, eating carbs can cause that kind of reaction.

I eat a ton of carbs, but i worked my way up to them...not something i'd recommend. ha.

Scott

yea i am eating very low amounts. Fruit doesn't do it.  A few bits of pasta and that rice did it. 
 

Same thing happened to me months ago but it was fruit - grapes, berries and cantaloupe.  Not only did I get very sleepy (passed out for several hours) I also had uncontrollable chills for a while until I fell asleep.  Afterwards, I was fine other than feeling drained.  I assume there is some kind of reaction to the flood of sugar into our bloodsteam??

Carb coma is one of the names for it happens to diabetics also.I know been there done that.

Carb Coma.. Now that is a first for me.. I will have to look that one up..

Thanks

same here.  I had some instant mashed potatoes with NFgravy.  FELT chills and napped 2 hrs.

I can handle most carbs. A medium sized bowl of ice cream does me good. But for some reason pop-tarts do exactly the same thing to me that you're describing. A couple of pop-tarts and a glass of milk and I'm down for a couple of hours and feel like I've got a 12-pack hangover when I wake up that lasts for an hour or two. And the others are correct in that there is such a thing as carb coma for us bypassers.

 Were you Type II diabetic - or even "insulin resistant" - before your surgery, Unitedude?   

 I could swear that sometimes, esp. after eating carbs, I do "bonk out" just like I did back in my pre-op diabetic days (I see this same reaction today in my diabetic older brother after he eats a big meal) ..    It even makes me wonder sometimes if my diabetes has returned, but my low A1C levels (usually under 5.0) confirm that it is still "gone" ..