feeling feeling tired after eating my dinner

[Niamh1]

Every time after I have eaten my lunch I get very tired exhausted to the point that I want to sleep. I inject the correct carbs and I eat mostly a balanced diet at lunch but still feel drained. I am not to sure on how to prevent this any advise will be great.

 

[jaywak]

The only time I feel so tired that I just want to sleep is when my BG goes really low , have you tested to see how low you are going ?

 

[Antje77]

Every time after I have eaten my lunch I get very tired exhausted to the point that I want to sleep. I inject the correct carbs and I eat mostly a balanced diet at lunch but still feel drained. I am not to sure on how to prevent this any advise will be great.

How high is your blood glucose when you feel this tired after food?
I feel like that when my BG is very high.

Without testing you won't know if it might be related to your blood glucose.

 

[Niamh1]

my sugar increases to 19 20

 

[Antje77]

my sugar increases to 19 20

I inject the correct carbs

Looks like your insulin to carbs ratio is off, if it were correct you wouldn't rise that high.
Please contact your diabetes nurse or endo about adjusting your doses.

 

[EJTC]

my sugar increases to 19 20

Mine go like this when I have a lot of carbs in a meal and no matter how accurate I have been with my carb/insulin ratio. I was advised to eat 40g carbs per meal and this works out well. However I don’t have the willpower to maintain this with every meal and when I do have a lot of carbs I shoot up towards 15 to 20 with my bg.
Eating regularly though I am not as hungry pre-meal time.
Another thing to consider is that depending on what insulin you are on have you tried to pre-bolus your insulin.
I also find that it depends on what type of carbs you’re eating, for me if I have 30g of Frosties then my sugars rise much more quickly. I’m sorry but I not very good with the correct terminology for this. Hopefully someone will read this and give a better explanation of what I’m trying to say. Fast and slow releasing carbs.
Also if you are high to start with and this can cause my blood sugar levels to rise quickly and highly .
Good luck with finding your own way through this.

 

[little burger]

I'm in the process of going on insulin. I have a blood glucose machine and all though my bg level is around 8 before midday meal I feel very tired too after eating and need a sleep. My bg is around 14 two hours after a midday meal.

 

[hh1]

I agree with @Antje77, I feel sleepy if my bg gets to the levels described. It rarely does, and echo that you check out your insulin to carb ratio. I wouldn't want to be that high every day. Good luck!

 

[The Governor]

Mine go like this when I have a lot of carbs in a meal and no matter how accurate I have been with my carb/insulin ratio. I was advised to eat 40g carbs per meal and this works out well. However I don’t have the willpower to maintain this with every meal and when I do have a lot of carbs I shoot up towards 15 to 20 with my bg.
Eating regularly though I am not as hungry pre-meal time.
Another thing to consider is that depending on what insulin you are on have you tried to pre-bolus your insulin.
I also find that it depends on what type of carbs you’re eating, for me if I have 30g of Frosties then my sugars rise much more quickly. I’m sorry but I not very good with the correct terminology for this. Hopefully someone will read this and give a better explanation of what I’m trying to say. Fast and slow releasing carbs.
Also if you are high to start with and this can cause my blood sugar levels to rise quickly and highly .
Good luck with finding your own way through this.

I find that the same food eaten on a different day can give me a completely different response in my BS levels, generally I manage it but sometimes it can be maddeningly inconsistent. It leads to me having rubbish control every now and again for no apparent reason...