Why do I have no appetite today? I don't feel sick.

You will crash after eating all of that sugar.

^^^^ Sugar high is a myth.

You’re just not hungry. Your body has all the sustenance you need so just go with it. I often don’t eat for the first time until mid afternoon.

The caffeine in the coffee speeds you up and takes away hunger. Also, the apple turnover is full of fat, which is heavy in your stomach, hence, it’s not that you have no appetite today, it’s that you are full.

Overall, we don’t need to eat nearly as much as we’ve brains washed to think we should. Today I had a ham, egg and cheese on a croissant for breakfast (at about 1:00 p;.m.). For dinner I’m having a bratwurst and and roll. That’s it.

Did you eat late last night? Have you been eating too much lately? Maybe your body is trying to lose the extra 2 pounds you put on. If you have.

Or, if you’ve been eating small amounts if food lately maybe your stomach shrank. That’s a real thing actually.

I don’t think your getting sick.

The other possibility is your thyroid isn’t functioning well. You would have other symptoms most likely though.

Again, with the fat theory – look at what @Dutchess_III ate. Fat at lunch, fat at dinner. Very filling!

All in moderation @jca. My calorie intake for the day was about 1000, which is fine, considering I’m not doing much at this point. Wait. Make that 1100, because I drank a glass of whole milk.
And I don’t have a weight problem.

So, how are you today @Aster?

@Dutchess_III: I wasn’t being critical of you having fat in your diet. I was pointing out that the fat you had in what you ate yesterday and the fat that @Aster had in what she ate yesterday were making you both full.

I’m HUNGRY!! Haven’t had a chance to eat yet today (it’s 1:45)

Soon after this post I was off in an ambulance to the Trauma Unit with severely bleeding stomach ulcers and spent three days in the hospital. I had taken Advil every night just to sleep better (it works) and they say it ate holes in my stomach. Now I can’t take any pain killers due to multiple bleeding ulcers. I believe my daughter and her son caused this but these doctors are not psychiatrists.
An upper endoscopy is a breeze. If you need one you have nothing to fear. They talk to you and next thing you know you wake up. (and don’t know where you are)

Holy shit @Aster!

How do you think your daughter and her son caused it, when the doctors say it was the Advil?

I have the same question as @Dutchess_III.

Stress can play a role in ulcer formation, although the main cause is usually a bacterial infection. If you were given antibiotics, be sure to take the complete course – don’t stop when you start to feel better.

If the doctors determined that the ulcers were purely caused by the Advil, then unfortunately, you’ll have to find a different kind of pain killer. Presumably, there is something else you can take.

I one time had very very bad, painful, ulcers in my esophagus from taking ibuprofen at night. It sent me to the ER. I still have the photos from the scope. It took something like 3 weeks for them to heal with medication.

My doctor who treated me for it told me to always take ibuprofen with plenty of liquid and some food and don’t lie down right away. I never had a problem again, but I never take it many days in a row, unless I’m sick for a fever. I also am careful with aspirin and any drug known to cause ulcers to each with it and drink plenty.

You’ll obviously have to ask your doctor whether he thinks you can still take those drugs.

I take a knock-off Benedryl from the Dollar General to help me sleep.

@JLeslie He never told me when they’d heal. He said I have to take all these meds for eight months but I feel much better taking aloe vera juice, a probiotic and krill oil.
I never, ever took hardly any water with the Advil because I was wanting to go to bed. I’m sure this sped up the process of bleeding ulcers. I never had pain so I just kept it up and never read the warning label. I don’t read labels. I’m stupid. Maybe I have ulcers in my colon, too. Not sure I want to know. Dangerous surgery and drawing blood is quite painful since they can barely find a vein. Drawing blood is much more frequent in the hospital than any other activity.

I wouldn’t risk it. I’d go with the meds for 8 months.

@Aster Are the meds antiobiotics? If so, there is no substitute for this. Just do the course of meds and the problem will be gone. If you don’t, it will certainly be back.

8 months! Mine were not bleeding, but 8 months sounds nuts. It also sounds to me it is pure and simple the pills sat in your tummy having broken up very little and burned holes in it, just like what happened to me in my esophagus.

What meds did he give you? Is he treating you for H. Pylori also? I don’t see why he would have jumped to treating that with your situation, but it wouldn’t be a bad thing to test for it that’s for sure. If you are positive for that I would take the antibiotics they prescribe for it, but I think those are just for two weeks? I’m not sure though.

They gave me a liquid med. I think it was called carafate or something like that. I don’t remember. I also was taking a “teaspoon” at a time of Chloraseptic now and then to treat the pain. None of those things am I recommending for you, mine was different. Different body part and no bleeding.

Are you anemic from it?

I tested negative for h pylori both at the hospital and at my doctor’s office. The drugs I am taking daily are Iron, pantoprazole (sometimes) , B complex liquid, a good probiotic, Vitamin E, turmeric twice daily, and aloe vera liquid . I have been home for five weeks and at this point I feel ok all morning then slump into bed all afternoon. I am to take these drugs for six months.
I took a HUGE bottle of carafate also then they switched me to a big white pill that coats the stomach. I have not had any pain or nausea thru this entire nightmare.
Yes; I am anemic. Two weeks ago he told me 13 ? is normal and I’m a 10 or 11. Can’t remember.
And yes again. I took almost no liquid with the ibuprofens and they burned holes in my stomach.

Can you explain the comment about your daughter and grandson? ”...Now I can’t take any pain killers due to multiple bleeding ulcers. I believe my daughter and her son caused this but these doctors are not psychiatrists.”

Simply “an explanation” would not even begin to cover what goes on with the two of them so why get into a long winded drama over their physical, emotional and financial destruction? I have to pass, sorry @Dutchess_III .

Not asking that. I’m just wondering if you think they caused your bleeding ulcers. That’s just a Yes/No kind of thing.

Yes; I’m sure of it with the strongly important addition of daily Advil use warned about on the label.