I NEVER feel hungry, can this be anything other than cancer? Distraught
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Hello, I am a 25 year old male, I've searched the internet high and low but there doesn't seem to be any reassurance out there for me. I lost my appetite seeminly over night about 3 months ago. Over that time I have seen 4 different doctors and they have presribed various things like laxatives and acid reflux as I have also had mild digestive complaints on and off. None of these have had boosted my appetite though. I still enjoy eating and do so to keep my energy levels up, but I never actually get hungry and sometimes I get bloated after meals. I also had a colonscopy (I requested it) to rule out colon cancer and it was all clear so the doctor just gave me anti-anxiety meds assuming my lack of appetite was psychological. Only thing is I'm convinced it's not and have seen another doctor who I persuaded to give me an ultrasound. Doctor doesn't seem too worried though and just seemed to imply I'm a hypochondria.
Assuming I am right about the lack of appetite being physical, can I really be anything else but cancer? I'm convinced what I am experiencing now is cachexia, or wasting from late stage cancer. I can't help but think it's pancreatic cancer with liver mets as I also have digestive complaints (have even had floating stools for a while now), I initially considered this just to excedingly rare in people my age but my symptoms just seems textbook. All in all just can't really believe this is happenning and I'm terrified about the ultrasound.
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Coolbeans77 longseason
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Hi,
I think I suffer from a similar condition. For several years now, I've noticed that I don't experience hunger. I usually eat no more than one small meal a day, mostly out of social convention and the belief that I would die if I didn't eat. Sometimes it's difficult for me to eat during the morning or daytime, because I feel nauseous when I try. I also find it very difficult to finish what most would consider a regular sized meal. I'm confident that I could go several days without eating and not suffer from hunger. I haven't consulted any doctors because I figured there's nothing they could do to help me, other than say it's depression (which it isn't) or that psychosomatic and deal with it. The only upside to this horrible condition is that I spend very little of my budget on food. For whatever reason, recently the condition has gradually gotten worse in that I'm able to eat less and less per day. One recent day, my only "meal" was about half a small bag of movie popcorn. I've come to accept this is a lifelong condition with no cure.
JoyKF53 Coolbeans77
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Why have you come to accept this? If you haven't been to a doctor how do you know that you're not suffering from something easily treatable? For goodness sake, go to your doctor and get this sorted out. You can't possibly know that they will say that there is nothing they can do to help you and you could be doing immeasurable harm to your body by having an inadequate diet.
Coolbeans77 JoyKF53
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Hi JoyKF53,
Thank you for your concern. But I'm convinced that there's nothing the medical community could do to help fix my problem.
Best,
Coolbeans77
AllyK Coolbeans77
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linda22908 longseason
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Hi i'm 16 and i honestly am really scared because all of a sudden one day I just woke up and i was not hungry and i just shook it off but its been 2 weeks and i'm still not hungry and i try to eat as much as i can but i can't because i feel sick when i eat. I have also lost some weight because of this. I also am quite cold all the time and very tired and i'm just really scared because i feel like one day i'm just not going to be able to eat anything and die. I feel as if i could go days without eating. I used to be able to eat heaps and i loved food now i feel sick at the sight of most food and I'm just not hungry can someone please help.
Coolbeans77 linda22908
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Your description of your problem matches my own almost exactly. Only I've been dealing with this problem for several years and I've never experienced any issues with feeling cold. Like I said in an earlier post, I'm very reluctant to consult the medical community for a solution because, other than put me through a battery of pointless tests, what could any medical professional possibly do to cure such a problem?
clarice89417 linda22908
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Okay I understand you being scared. I was too but as I got older and I have been dealing with this condition pretty much my entire life I am over 40 years old now and this started around the age of 14. I have been too many doctors I've had many many tests everything has come back good. I do have medical issues that they say is due to lack of eating for much of my life. I love the taste of food so I don't not eat but because of the lack of feeling hungry I do have a tendency to forget to eat. In the beginning I would forget to eat for several days and wouldn't even notice it. But I have learned to put myself on a schedule I cannot eat in the mornings without getting sick & in the afternoon I can only eat a very very small amount before getting the feeling of nausea at which point I stop. Then I can eat a small meal in the evenings before I feel like I'm going to bust from being" full". You have to learn your body's limitations and still eat! I have alarms set on my phone to help remind me & my kids constantly check to see when the last time that I have eaten was. In addition to making sure I do eat something I also take a multivitamin and supplements to help maintain my health as much as I can. It's not an easy condition if it ends up lasting long-term and I have been hospitalized many times because I have collapsed due to malnutrition in my years growing up mainly in my teens and early twenties and first learning how to maintain and deal with this condition. Going through pregnancy with this condition is extremely hard but if I can make it I know you can too. My oldest son is now 26 & has also been dealing with this condition sense he was a young teen has been finally gained weight in the last few yrs, we are helping each other. I hope these little tips help you and please talk to your doctor and your family about your problem & about things that you can do to help maintain your overall health and safety while you figure this out. Keep your head up and know you are not alone. BTW it took having 4 kids, a partial hysterectomy surgery and going on 23 yrs of trying to break 110 but I'm not giving up on seeing 123lbs(without being full term pregnant)! Good luck!
clarice89417 Coolbeans77
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Like I said in my other post Drs didn't find any cure but did help me find small ways to maintain my overall health. Now my Dr is aware of my condition & can help keep an eye out for issues that come from this and to see and raise red flags with me when things aren't working right with my diet or regiment it is just a safeguard to keep me from dying due to involuntary starvation. The cold that she is experiencing is due to the lack of food which would give her the nutrition she needs for her body to warm itself. And due to the lack /loss of weight and not having enough of ones own insulation IE body fat to keep you warm even a breeze makes you feel like you're freezing! I remember as a young teen climbing fully dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt into the back of a hot car to get warm during a breezy spring day. And to this day I cannot stand a cool breeze I can bundle up enough to stay warm when it's cold out but if there is a breeze I feel like I'm freezing to death! But if you're not experiencing it to the point that she or I do then apparently you are maintaining yourself well. I would still let either your normal physician or your family know if they don't already so they can help keep an eye on things such as your habits and routines because this can suddenly get worse and I mean hospitalize you for months as you get put from IVs back on 2 solid foods and that's if you're lucky and somebody finds you were you've collapsed. Some don't get found in time. Better safe than sorry. Good luck.
courtnay26 longseason
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you would probably be feverish and weak
fansworth longseason
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Hi,
I've have the same problem. Long story short: I very strongly believe i have Candida. As of right now i am 36 hours into not eating or drinking anything except water, blackseed oil, yogurt, and later on i'll be adding olive oil too. Since I started i have felt a lot of grumbling in my stomach, and lately there's been slight acidic sensations once every few hours in my stomach (the feeling generally associated with hunger).
With the way things are going, I think it'll take a total of seven days for this to resolve. I will update my progress on this thread.
Please look Candida up.
fansworth
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Also add lots of vinegar to the above mentioned things (salt water cleanse if necessary).
I hope this helps someone.
fansworth
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I suggest you look into both
fansworth
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athar20069 fansworth
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I'm pretty sure that I too have candida. I Google and i have almost same set of symp
joshua_25752 longseason
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Hello I am having the same problem just few days ago and I can no longer feel hungry and I'm getting worried and also it is better to know early than to be sorry if it's already too late so do you have any idea what's going on?