not wanting to eat - poss. ED trigger - UPDATE!!!!!

artichoke · Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 738 Location: under the stairs

Hey tron! I'm sorry you're not feeling well.

I'm not sure if this helps, but when I had surgery on my stomach and couldn't eat solid food for six weeks, they had me eat a bunch of baby food and pureed fruit so I wouldn't lose too much weight (people who had my kind of surgery could lose up to 45 lbs!). I remember eating a ton of pureed apricot and making 'milkshakes' with milk and ice cubes and maybe a *bit* of real ice cream - anything larger than that would get stuck in my esophagus. I know baby food is no replacement for the yummy stuff you usually make, but hey - it comes in small jars and you just open it and eat.

midnightsky1686 · Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 1016

artichoke-good idea! I totally still sometimes eat baby food when I am sick (I think it is plum flavored?). It's one of the only things besides crackers and 7 up that will stay down. Wish I had though about it sooner, I would have been eating it this last week while I wasn't feeling well.
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ninjaTRON · Posted: Nov 12, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: OMNOMNOMNOMNOM

OH MY GOD GLITTER! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A MONTH I'M HUNGRY!!!!

hungry old school style where reading about food makes me hungry. and thinking about food makes me hungry.

food food food omnomnomnomnomnom

in other news, its totally the wierdest timing in the world! i had a gastroscope this morning (they stick a long flexible tube/camera into your esophagus/stomach/intestine and take a look) and i got home and was like...I'M TEH STARVING! FEED MEHHH

(ps, gastroscope - without sedation - worst. thing. ever. not excited to do that again. or especially ever have to do it to anybody...ewwwwwww)

YAY! FOOD! YAY! FOOD! YAY!!

TROn
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Liat · Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 1638 Location: Calgary, Alberta

Hopefully you went and made yourself something yummy! Hoorah for being hungry, boo for having cameras all up in your insides.
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midnightsky1686 · Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 1016

Why couldn't they sedate you? Don't they have a numbing spray for the throat for those?
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ninjaTRON · Posted: Nov 13, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

LOL midnightsky - its tots my own fault.

1) the numbing spray only works for some people. apparently i have the world's strongest gag reflex (....that's what she said..)

2) i have an unjustifiable and totally nonscientific fear of sedation. of any kind. i don't want t3's, or anesthesia, or..anything. obv some are unavoidable, but if i can help it, i won't get sedated for things
i got 16 needles in my mouth for my wisdom teeth out. so yeah, my surgeon yesterday was cool with this but...DAMN was that procedure terrible.

3) i have a HUUUUuuuuuUUUUUGE exam next thursday and friday... the sedation stays in your system for 12 - 16 hours, where your memory is sketchy ...
i was not okay with this. losing 12 - 16 hours of studying = v. bad.

however, in the future, if i (god forbid) ever have to counsel patients on scopes without sedation, i'll def. recommend the sedation. gross.

TRON

PS flipside: i saw the inside of my stomachs. COOL
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kitson · Joined: 12 Jun 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Leeds, UK

Hey

Have you been tested for Giardia? It could be a parasite or something like that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/giardiasis1.shtml

My friend picked this up in Tanzania and it made her really sick until she got tested and treated.

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