Glutton

[Grumpy77]

I've come from many years of not having proper appetite for food and being dangerously under weight my whole life, yes all 57 years of it that I can remember, to being a glutton overnight. It started just over a week ago.

Having struggled with under weight for years, I'm loving my new love for food. I don't know where it came from.

A week of gluttony has not caused me to be overweight yet, but having heard so much about obese heart failure... a sense of danger is also beginning to creep in

I don't want to add heart problems to PD. But I also don't want to go back to being underweight either. So how do I strike the right balance

[LAJ12345]

what have you changed?

[JeanieBeanie]

My husband likes his food too but tends to stay around the same weight. I understand l-dopa can cause over eating but also PD can cause weight loss. Every so often I make my husband have a couple of days of eating less.

[Gymsack]

It seems to me to be obvious from what you have written, but you can not see it. The instant you showed signs of enjoying food you started worrying irrationally about being a glutton and getting too fat. That is probably why you could not enjoy food in the first place. You may have a deep pshycological need to be be very thin. I suggest that you discuss this with a psycoligist. Have you ever expierianced bouts of anarexia?

[Grumpy77 in reply to Gymsack]

Now that you put it that way, it kinda makes sense. It seems probably because my stomach is not used to having that much food in it, it is sending negative signals and feedback to my brain, which in turn is making me feel guilty of enjoying eating

Having said that, I'm also very consciously aware of the downside of a poor diet and low food intake.... You become vulnerable to many health problems. So while I can see the reason why my brain is making me feel guilty for eating well... I don't have any motive or joy to want to stay constantly thin or underweight.

I've always not had much of an appetite for food and always been underweight.. but wether I crossed the threshold to be classified as anorexia, I don't know because I've never been medically examined on this issue

[Gymsack]

You sound like a rational person . I suggest that you stop analyzing yourself and get a professional / doctor to do it .

[Grumpy77 in reply to Gymsack]

Correct

On a couple separate matters,

first the important one - how have you managed to survive PD for 20 years? And how are you keeping, generally? I ask bcos I'm only 6 years in and I'm exhausted. I doubt I will survive 15 of PD. If I do, quality of life is going to be at zero level

next, the not so important matter... your avatar hints at you being a nerd, are you 😂

[Gymsack]

Nerd?

No

That is Alfred E Newman From MAD Magazine , published between 1952 and 2018, He was in 550 issues . He only said "What me worry"

[Grumpy77 in reply to Gymsack]

Your other longer reply(a very great reply) has disappeared.. Why did you delete it?