the bottomless pit | Arthritis Information

For the past few days I have felt hungry constantly. I just had a bowl of cereal an hour ago, plus 2 pieces of sour candy and now I am thinking about how good a BLT would taste. It is not PMS, and I have been in a flair since the weekend...dont most people lose their appetites in a flair? What is going on? I need to lose weight, not start packing it on!

help!

mmmmmm BLT with fresh garden lettuce

I love food but as of late I have been the opposite of you. Can only eat a few bites and only beene ating once a day.

I think flairs must be going around right now. I have been in a whopper of a flair since Monday but took my enbrel yesterday so I can at least live with myself today. Still not hungry though.

ooops!

Sorry about the reference to whopper. Didn't realize it til I posted it.

Hang in there.

mmmmm....whopper with cheese, fries and a choc. shake

Lucky! why cant I have a decreased appetite? maybe I should switch to MTX pills, maybe they will make me sick to my stomach all of the time. I have worth of cortislim, I never took it after I bought it. I wonder if it would work.

I know this sounds strange but I'm never full. I always feel hungry. I can't remember when I last had that full - thanksgiving dinner stuffed - full feeling.

I get tired of eating & chewing! It's been that way for a long time. I can crave Chinease, Big Mac or whatever, take 4 bites and am done. It really drives me crazy, to get tired of chewing. There's no sense it it!

No, db - I've been the same way lately. I go to a restaurant and order something, take 3 or 4 bites and put down my fork. It's too much work. But I'm not dropping the pounds, because we've upped the prednisone, and no matter how little I eat, it seems to pack on the weight.

Crunchy, when I'm flaring, it seems I need more energy foods. Since I am flaring a lot, I'm hungry a lot. If it's just the fatigue that's hitting me, then my appetite drops. If I'm in a lot of pain, I get really nauseus and can't hardly eat.

But nothing takes the weight off. Once again, can we all say, "I hate prednisone!"

I guess since I'm not on predinose, I dont have that problem. The Drs. are still trying to figure out what is causing my constant stomach upset to the point I can't eat. I've lost about 15 lbs. in the past two months, and they dont know why. Gall bladder is fine, stomach is fine... next test I suppose they are gonna run is a colonoscopy to see if there is anything there... since everything else has been ruled out, it's probably IBS, which to my understanding is another auto-immune problem.

Crunchy, I know it sounds silly, but how bout drinking a big glass of water or skim milk when you are feeling the urge to eat, before you eat. That might help a little to cut down on the quantity of food....I don't kmow, I've always had a weight problem. I haven't been below 200 lbs in over 10 years. It does feel good though to be in a size 14 again!!! :)

But I am not even on Prednisone anymore! One thing is that I was eating 2 or 3 full meals a day and I wasnt eating any sweets. Now I have been munching on snack foods and sandwhiches. I think that my appetite is not being satisfied.

Has anyone here tried any type of diet pills with success?

I've tried them all!!! Nothing works... it's all a bunch of horse crap!!!

Since March ,when I started the Prednisone, I have gained weight like crazy. All I wanted was food, choc, whatever. I made fudge at least once a week. It makes 3 lbs. My Prednisone has been cut down to 7 1/2/mg. daily. Since I upped my MTX to 6 pills, for some wonderful reason, my appetite has not been good. I haven't made any fudge for over a week now. I was having trouble with nausea. In fact I have it every so often now, so maybe that is why. Still tired, but not as bad.

Trisha

crunchy, My friend gained weight on the enbrel , Also my doctor gave me prevacid for my stomach it helps with the nausea

Now Enbrel makes you gain weight! I am so doomed.   Crunchy, try to focus on what those munchies will do to you. If you can picture those fries as a little green army marching towards your hips and stomach, singing 5 more lbs to the hips, pass it around, 10 more lbs to the hips, pass it around....... You get the idea.
Everytime I eat fries all I can see is them jumping off a highboard and diving into that huge bucket over dripping with lard and coming up coated in lard, ready to eat. I'm lucky if i can get two down me before I start to taste the lard.
   If I'm going to munch, I'll munch good stuff like my dried fruit mixed with almonds.
   If you must eat those burgers, etc., take just one bite and toss the rest in to the garbage.
   Hope that this works for you.

   Marisa

hahahaha! Marisa, that is so funny! For about a year I didnt eat any meat, it was a mental thing after a while. All I could think about was blood, I couldnt eat meat at all. I need to get into the right state of mind.

I should have read this 30 min earlier...before I ate the french fries, doritos and ice cream....oh that looks even worse in writing! I cant believe that was my after work snack!

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!