I went through a trauma with the home care person that was caring for my Mother when she was dying of cancer (she not only stole my Mothers ID, wrote checks on her account & on top of that, called the police & accused me of abusing my Mother).....while this was all going on, I had no support from anyone to help me understand what was going on or any help even with my psychologist or pdoc. On top of that, my mare just had her foal & she was injured at 3 weeks old & I was caring for her leg several times a day.......& the previous August, we had a forest fire & the smoke covered the valley I was living in.....had the worst asthma attack & was in the hospital for 10 days with that....the smoke smell did nothing for my nausea in the first place. I was just a mess of stress & emotions & I couldn't eat for months.......from October - February.....needless to say, I ended up in the hospital on a central line with IV nutrition by January just at the time my Mother died.

Stress in our lives can definitely have an effect on our eating...the the point of bringing the weight down to anorexia levels that needs to be avoided.....if at all possible, try to force yourself to eat small bites throughout the day.....don't let yourself get to the point that I ended up at....the hospital's pdoc (the hospital didn't have a psych ward) was going to put me on a hold if I didn't agree to the central line or a feeding tube......but my medical Dr looked the other way when I left the hospital so I could go to my Mother's funeral if I promised to come back after I got things settled the next week & have the central line & nutrition....I was so anemic, I barely made it through the funeral......but made it back to the hospital the next week.

Stress & nausea & not eating is nothing to fool around with....need to force yourself to eat at least small amounts & work on what is causing the stress.

Please take care of yourself,
Debbie