[Just Deb]

The last year or so I have been eating much better - more vegetables, less fried foods, less sugars, just healthier in general. The last couple of weeks I have not been doing so good with willpower and when we have been out, I have been eating greasy bar food (onion rings, fried cheese, etc.). Not good choices, I know, especially at 10pm at night. Anyway, a couple of hours later when I am trying to sleep, I am like a little furnace. It's not hot flashes or night sweats. It just feels like I am putting off heat. I don't really know how to explain it.

I am just kind of weirded out by this reaction. It has happened a couple of times now after eating greasy foods and once when I drank too much wine (not drunk, but more than 1-2 glasses). My birth mother has sugar diabetes and I do get tested every year. But I don't know if that has anything to do with it, because that is the only thing going on.

Any ideas? And yes, I obviously know to knock it off - if I feel bad after I eat it, I shouldn't eat it again. I am just curious as to why my body is doing that.

[Schumeany]

I can give you my best guess...I can't promise it is the actual reason, but it is a distinct possibility.

Stomach problems will often cause you to feel uncomfortably hot after eating the wrong food...too greasy, spicy, alcohol, etc. -- especially so close to bedtime. They often feel like hot flashes, but can also just make you feel uncomfortably overheated.

I have had problems with reflux and with "acid burns" -- kind of like baby ulcers in my stomach and my lower esophogus at various times in my life. Currently, on a healthier diet and smaller portions, I have found that the problem has cleared up almost completely, but if I drink wine too late in the evening, I also get the "furnace" issue going.

The interesting thing about stomach problems is that they do not necessarily have to be causing you pain in the abdomen, but can just cause other symptoms. So, you may be getting a little esophagal reflux with the greasy food and wine, not enough to be "painful" per se...although if you keep it up that may happen too...not fun. But, it would account for the sense of being overheated.

[rodeogirl]

It reminds me a lot of when I used to have gall bladder attacks. Greasy food late at night, then I'd get really hot, the get really sick, then get the cold sweats.

If it keeps up it wouldn't be a bad idea to mention it to your doctor.

[Just Deb]

Thanks for the replies. Schumeany, that makes sense. I probably am getting some stomach issues - I spend the next morning burping (nasty ones!). Rodeogirl - I don't feel sick - just hot, but thanks for the heads up. I guess I now have more incentive to order better!