For years I have had weakness after I eat meals. It doesn't matter if it is a small meal or large meal or what time of day. I have talked to my doctor about this and he doesn't have a clue. I do suffer with low blood sugar drops at times. At work, also at home, I eat a handful of almonds, slices of fruit, crackers and other healthy snacks to control that. After I eat regular meals, my heart pounds and I feel weak in my extremities. What could this be?

Are you eating too much too fast? If your body is used to small snacks, overloading it once or twice a day may have become a problem. Many people find five small meals a day to be much better for them than two or three large ones.
Have you been to a nutrition specialist as well as your regular doctor? Your doctor didn’t have any suggestions at all? Perhaps it is time to seek a second opinion.

Sounds like an Iron deficiency issue coupled with something else Perhaps acute Anaemia?


Need Dr Sids opinion ...
A good pointer to this is you are very pale skinned look skinny and are lethargic
Can you post your height /weight/Body type/rough age and we can have a guess how far off the Norm you lie on the Body Mass Index table

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At work, also at home, I eat a handful of almonds, slices of fruit, crackers and other healthy snacks to control that. After I eat regular meals, my heart pounds and I feel weak in my extremities. What could this be?

Maybe it's nature's way of telling you that your body works best on lots of healthy snacks instead of big meals.

It's more 'natural' to eat that way. Our earliest ancestors did. Agriculture and industry forced us to conform to artificial rules about eating that have nothing to do with our nutritional needs and everything to do with production efficiency. So we are taught from early childhood to control behaviors such as eating, sleeping and eliminating wastes by the clock. I'm sure lots of people didn't adapt very well, and were gradually eliminated from the gene pool.

Today's 24-7-365 lifestyle is increasing the pressure on workers. For example, interrupted sleep damages our memory function.

And even if you don't work outside of your home, you are probably habituated to the notion that you 'should' eat 'three square meals' a day.

You can meet your nutritional needs perfectly well just eating snacks.

So listen to your body and don't look for a quick fix from a medical prescription unless you develop symptoms even living on snacks only.

Not everything is a medical problem.

Possibilities include reactive hypoglycemia (diagnosing would require a glucose tolerance test, or serial glucose measurements after a typical meal); one of a couple of problems with the mesenteric artery (evaluation would likely begin with a doppler ultrasound, possibly an arteriogram); carcinoid syndrome or pheochromocytoma (urine tests). These are off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others. I'd say you ought to be seeing a gastroenterologist.

Thank you all for your replies.I went to an endocrinologist who did blood work. The reason I was having the weakness after eating meals was due to the fact I was very deficient in vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to insulin resistance which causes the inability to properly deal with carbs and sugars. My whole body would hurt and ache. I took prescription D for months..had more bloodwork, was fine. Months later started having the same problems, had more bloodwork...low again. By the way, I do mostly graze during the day (on healthy food) and very rarely have huge meals, so this was a medical problem.

I'm glad you have a handle on it now, and thanks for coming back and letting us know.

Regarding getting enough vitamin D, I continually hear on TV that up to a half hour in the sun without sunscreen is the healthiest way to get vitamin D.

As for sunscreen, I heard only once on TV that there are ingredients in sunscreen which may be toxic. I didn't listen closely, because I do not get enough sun to merit using sunscreen.