Appetite

[Zobro]

Is anyone else’s anxiety effect their appetite mines been up and down for months sometimes I can be really hungry and other times I feel hunger but I feel sick and don’t fancy food. I have had blood tests but paranoid I have cancer despite visiting the doctors numerous amounts of times! I constantly feel naseus whenever I think about it

[Anon9621]

I experience that. Sometimes I have no appetite at all and other days I can eat with no problems

[Zobro in reply to Anon9621]

How can it be from anxiety. It’s like you feel like you need to eat but you don’t want too

[Zobro in reply to Zobro]

Then I lose weight from it and wonder why I’m loosing weight

[xrosstheh in reply to Zobro]

Yes. Thats very likely. Especially when we think too much about our Anxiety! How are you feeling now?

Hope you get better soon! Please get back to us. We are all here for each other!

[Sandy254 in reply to Zobro]

Hi I am like it now I feel sick if I attempt to eat I'm picky I'm just happy drinking fluids but I would just go to sleep it's hard not being anxious I had my benefit check yesterday never sleep till 5 in morning when he went I went to bed I felt sick headache woke up it was dark 5 3 0 I thought I had missed a day take care xxxxx

[xrosstheh]

Yes

Infact... Even when i want to eat... I just can't

I will have to wait for the feeling to go away and then i start eating slowing and then i have to find a drink just to kill that "Nausea taste".....

[shanmark75]

I just came off a period of 2 weeks that I could hardly eat 2 bites of food without feeling extremely full and sick. I lost 6 lbs and thought the worst. I am finally feeling better the last couple of days. Anxiety can cause so many crazy side effects. If it lasts longer than a week visit your Doctor for peace of mind like I did. Best wishes .

[Layla321]

When I’m super anxious I can easily skip lunch dinner and the thought of eating is none existent.

My appetite just goes, that’s the first give away when something is troubling me. I think people either over eat or under eat when anxiety kicks in.

[Funkyfaerie]

Hi,

Just been through the same for two and a half months. Unfortunately the only way to make it go away is to eat. It wasn't easy for me, but Christmas did it for me, the distraction of my family, stopped me worrying and thinking and I ate my dinner. Then I began to think well, I ate that and wasn't ill, in fact felt better and it's progressed since then. I still have what I call a funny turn now and then....but 98% better. I wish you luck xx

[Suebi]

Hi I'm the same Ive lost about 12lbs in the last few months , I have no appetite , but I have to eat to take my anticoagulant tablet at lunchtime .generally I manage a wrap with a small amount of ham . This anxiety really is the pits .

[Zobro]

It’s like you feel hungry but don’t fancy eating but your tummy feels weird

[Suebi]

Are you on any medication for anxiety ?

[Zobro in reply to Suebi]

10 days in citalopram I don’t even think I have anexity I just think I have an illness I just question everything and feel like I’m constantly in a dream and nothing’s real around me. I am always spaced out and dizzy. Apparently it’s anxiety

[Suebi in reply to Zobro]

Sounds like it to me , I had pulmonary embolisms 19 months ago and the health anxiety and depression are awful. I'm trying really hard not to take antidepressants .

[Zobro]

I suppose I do have health anxiety as I used to go to the docs all the time but I still think I’m dying

[Indigojoe]

Zobro, your symptoms sound as normal as they come, for anxiety. I have had everyone at one time or another, and they ran the same pattern.