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Old Oct 19, 2018, 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Blueberrybook View Post
So-so today. Exercised and still not much appetite. This keeps up, I'm going to need to see the PCP for bloodwork or the gastroenterologist.

Lack of appetite has never been a problem with my ED. I was always hungry and had to resist eating even at my lowest weight. Though because I purged a lot of my calories through exercising, I never did stop eating and definitely ate more than what people think a person with anorexia might eat. Just, I exercised more to make up for it, but I never got to a point where I just couldn't eat.

Not sure why I am not very hungry these days. Stress, maybe? I've been on the Wellbutrin in the past (both at normal and lower weights), never affected my appetite, and I've been on the Adderall at least 6 months without it seeming to change my appetite. So IDK. Only recent med change was pdoc told me to take 25 mg. Trazodone to help my sleep at night. Trazodone does zombify me in higher dosages, but it has never affected my appetite.

It could be issues with vitamin/mineral absorption post-ulcer surgery. I think they take awhile to manifest.

Or maybe it's entirely something else.

God knows I hope I do not weigh less when I see the pdoc next week, or he will not be happy. Though I swear, pdoc has a scale that weighs very light compared to my own, like a 5 lb. difference. PCP's scale is pretty much the same as my own. But I don't think pdoc will care if his scale is not showing the numbers going up, though if it showed my weight as 5 lb. more, he'd get off my case about it. Ugh.
I worry about not having lost enough weight when I go to my Internist. I know it's the opposite with you but I guess we both worry what they think. Sometimes I wish I had no body and was just a spirit..then I wouldn't worry about what I weigh, how I look and health concerns.
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