Passing out after eating ice cream

[DancingTree]

I'm starting a new thread after reading the one Mejon started in 2010. I have also been diagnosed with a vasovagal unspecified disorder after passing out from eating sweets. Ice cream, chocolate etc... I do suffer from bradycardia. My passing out lasts longer than a few seconds, sometimes hours. I will start to feel it happen. My eyes will get very tired with the sandy feeling in them. I also feel almost drunk. I'll pass out and slump over sometimes with a cigarette in my hand. I have a ton of burn holes in my rug and I did on my couch until I bought a new one. Now I smoke outside and only eat the good stuff at night right before bed. It's a real pain. I've taken just about every test possible. I don't have epilepsy nor have any of my tests come back positive for anything related. I'm confused for why this happens.

If I were you, I'd be avoiding everything that you know triggers these episodes. It doesn't seem safe to consume them.

Given it’s triggered by sugar intake has anyone ever explored dumping syndrome?

Usually experience by people who have had weight loss surgery or other conditions which affect the transition of food from the stomach to the gut and how the digestion process starts mean large amounts of unprocessed sugar or fat from their diet surges into the gut and gets absorbed quickly causing a massive spike in their blood stream. Symptoms can also include sudden overwhelming tiredness, episodes of diarrhoea, cold sweats, shaking. For a lot of sufferers, once the sugar/fat is out of their system, they often feel the need to “sleep it off”.

Solutions are cutting down as much as possible on sugary foods, high fat foods and taking time over eating drinking so digestion starts in the stomach not the gut

I came here to say that the same happens to me but after eating some types of pizza ( but not others). Usually when eating out, never at home with a supermarket pizza. Yesterday I was almost passing out after having some pasta at a restaurant, which make me think it might be gluten related. But I have done tests for gluten intolerance and all came back normal. I just cant figure out what's going on