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no appetite, anxiety, or extreme worry?
Hi, I an new here and need some help. To begin with, about three weeks ago I just had a bad case of the flu, or cold...(yellow mucous). Was in bed on and off for about 4 days before I felt better and started to eat again.Then, after I was feeling better I woke up one night hot, not sweating but feeling like a flush feeling. I have always been a worrier of my health, so I got scared and checked out possibly symtoms on the internet. I found some illnesses with loss of appetite and night sweats (which I know think i didn't have)...lymphona, hodgkins and some others.
Since reading that I have been in a constant state of worry! I wake up in the morning waiting to feel hungry and I don't and then I get even more sure I have something..stomach cancer etc. etc.
This has gone on for a couple of weeks now. I still eat but no real hunger, only just because I know I have to.
I do have some burn sensation in my stomach at times and maybe it's a peptic ulcer...also read they can stop an appetite. Anyway...my wife says it is all in my head! She says I have got myself so wound up, it's acute anxiety or something like that.
Is this a possible for a anxiety to shut of a appetite?? Or could it be some other type of mental phobia? How can I get over this?
jerry682 on 2005-05-06
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
This is exactly what happened in the 1930's when the book companies started flogging Medical dictionaries , door to door.
People read them and KNEW without a doubt , that they had the symptoms listed on almost every page of the book.
Now we have the internet and people have not changed one iota!.
Try looking at philosophy on the internet and realise that we ALL have to die .
THr choices we make as we go through life determine how we die. It may be that as anxiety causes stress and stress can kill you -----?.
On the other hand you could make a serious study of homeopathy and its resources and beliefs and not only cure youself but help others.
People read them and KNEW without a doubt , that they had the symptoms listed on almost every page of the book.
Now we have the internet and people have not changed one iota!.
Try looking at philosophy on the internet and realise that we ALL have to die .
THr choices we make as we go through life determine how we die. It may be that as anxiety causes stress and stress can kill you -----?.
On the other hand you could make a serious study of homeopathy and its resources and beliefs and not only cure youself but help others.
passkey last decade
Thanks...I do understand the philosophy and also how reading about illnesses can make someone think they have them.
I guess my primary question is about anxiety.
Can a persons mind filled with constant worry and fear affect an appetite to the extent they lose it?
I guess my primary question is about anxiety.
Can a persons mind filled with constant worry and fear affect an appetite to the extent they lose it?
jerry682 last decade
OH YES , thats the root of anorexia.
THere are remedies for lost appetite --
Check out the following and see if any of them match YOU!!.
Ars Alb
Calc Carb
Ferrum
Lycopodium
Nat Mur
Phos
Pulsatilla
Silica
Sulphur.
Best of Luck!
THere are remedies for lost appetite --
Check out the following and see if any of them match YOU!!.
Ars Alb
Calc Carb
Ferrum
Lycopodium
Nat Mur
Phos
Pulsatilla
Silica
Sulphur.
Best of Luck!
passkey last decade
hey jerry even i have been through the same what u have experienced. I was getting some strange pains in lower abdomen with loss of appetite. i logged on 2 the net 2 look 4 symptoms. read thru stomach cancer n stuff. got tensed like anything and lost appetite completely. it was actually a protozoal infection "entamoeba histolytica." i think infection has gone. No appetite as yet....
yogeshnagpal last decade
I have the same condition like Jerry682....it began when my husband went to the ER....I got the flu for a month....all 3 of my children were sick....I looked up my symptoms on the internet as well and went crazy! I have...loss of appetite, weight loss, loose and more frequent bowels(once a day, not normal for me), nervousness, anxiety, don't want to be alone, melancholy, especially when it's overcast out or rainy, constant worry of my health condition or my family's health, insomnia, heart pounding hard, depression, irritablity, short and high tempered, lost interest in activites......my question is...should I take Ars Alb and how much? It looks like that fits my symptoms the best. Thanks!
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jtlaharder last decade
i'm so glad i saw this posting. i'm suffering the same thing as well. i have a body symptoms and look it up on the internet. thinking that i have a grave illness. everyday i wake up looking at my body, thinking that i'm different... losing weight... and my appetite is just so weird. i'm eating just because i know i have to, but no desire. lossing sleep as well. i'm gonna try taking valium tonight just to keep me relax.
zandro last decade
Anyone who takes Valium to help sleep is starting on the slippery road to addiction and eventual death --- DONT DO IT:
walkin last decade
i havent' tried it yet.... my doctor gave it to me after my panic attack weeks ago.. i was hesitant to take it. however i keep on waking up around 1 or 2 am and couldnt' sleep til 6 with worry thoughts on my mind... how about melatonin is that better?
zandro last decade
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