Yes, I have gone through the same stress issues of not eating as you are experiencing. I had been anorexic back in 1995.....after years of that, I ended up gaining quite a bit when I couldn't get outside & do anything with the horrible migraines I ended up having.

Got the migraines under control in 2003 & started being able to ride my horse again & be active & the weight started coming off slowly.....then wham.....stress hit, my mother's cancer & the abuse & trauma with the home care person.....I lost all the weight I had gained & back down to the anorexic level in less than 4 months.....I couldn't eat because I felt sick every time I saw food & even drinking felt horrible. I actually landed in the medical hospital on IV nutrition because of that....just at the time my mother died.

My GP actually had me on the medication they give to cancer patients when they get sick from chemo. It didn't help much. The only food I seemed to be able to handle during that time was about 1/2 a grilled cheese sandwich......& a few oatmeal cookies. They were mild enough & pretty plain so my stomach didn't reject them as it seemed to the rest of the food. Being in the hospital on & off for several months, they were always trying to find food that I would eat & not having to fix it myself really didn't help.....I just couldn't eat because of the stress & the trauma.

It doesn't take long for the weight to drop off to a dangerous place even when you are overweight....only thing than was that it left me with more wrinkles than my 90+ year old grandmother had. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I almost screamed.....but then by that time, I was 51 years old.

When I first started loosing the weight, I was seeing my GP because of an asthma attack I had & bronchitis from forest fire smoke that hit where I was living......so his comment when my weight loss started was to make sure I was taking vitamines...he said that will help even with the weight loss. He tried to encourage me to drink those drinks like sustical or the such but because of the horrible experience I had with them in the ED disorders treatment center I had been in the last time I had the anorexia issues....there was no way I could get them down.....but since you haven't had that negative experience, maybe between those & vitamines, your blood work will be able to stay healthy inspite of not being able to eat well.

My pdoc tried to prescribe meds that would help me gain weight....but I wasn't into taking meds like that....& my GP didn't think it was a good idea either....the anti-nausea meds are ok...just don't take compozine because it can cause parkinson's like side effects.....other kinds are much better that they use for cancer patients.

Hope you can get through this.....I know the difficult situation you are in......it definitely brings back some memories for me.....but wish you the best with this