Re: Pain and eating

[Guest guest]

when i get anxious i can't eat...guess i'm just the oppsosite. i can

be hungry too...almost to the point of having an ache-ey empty

feeling...but if i try and eat when i'm anxious the food usually gets

stuck after the first couple of bites.

also i am healing from a surgery...(long time open wound...very slow

healing) and i notice i can take in the same amount of calories and

still am losing weight...i wonder how many calories you burn trying to

heal?

its been a month and a half and i have lost 16 pounds since the

surgery....weird,,,since my weight hasnt budged either way in like 2

years.

( it was a double hernia sugery ( two incisional hernias) )

lorieann

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:46:18 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time), Closson's

wrote:

>

> Hi,

> I was wondering if anyone else except myself find themselves eating to find

> comfort from the pain? I'm having an awful time tonight. My stomach seems

> to be saying I'm hungry, but I've had a good supper so I shouldn't be. I'm

> worried about my test results for low albumin, which I think is why I'm

> eating. I eat when I'm anxious. Of course this leads to weight gain which

> causes more anxiety and more eating. A vicious circle. I don't seem to be

> able to get off the ride. Are you having a similar problem? Just wondering

> if I'm alone on this.

>

> Norma

>

>

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For me because I need to eat with mt pills and take then 8 times a

day. I feel like i am constantly eating. Sometimes I eat when I am

bored, but I try to remind myself that it is only like another hour

before I need to eat again to take my meds. I have also been on

drugs, steroids are the worst for me, last Christmas when my ex-

fiance and I were together, we had Christmas eve dinner at my one

grandmothers house and the next day dinner a my family's house, his

families house, and one of his grandparents... I can honestly say I

ate at least two to three helping of everything and I was still

hungry. That is probably the worse it has been but on these steroids

I always feel hungy. I try to fool myself by drinking water, but

that only holds out so olng!

And about the weight gain, since this time last year until this past

August, I have gained about 25-30 pounds... Since August I have been

forcing myself to only eat 1200 calories, the least any dietician

would suggest so you can still get the nutrients.... Since August I

have still gained about 4-6 more.... Norma, you aren't alone...

These problems effect every system in your body from your nerves, to

digestive, to your skin ( mine tends to be super dry, but someone

else said they had to wash their fact like 6 times a day).....

I have tried finding foods that take a long time to eats and are

relatively low in calories... Like If I cut up and apple by hand

then eat it slice by sclice, it takes me about 15 minutes... And

that is a lot better than the amount of Twinkies or cake you can eat

in 15 minutes!

Hope my weight gain helped!

Bekkah

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Lorieann,

Give me your surgeons numer.... Losing 16 # sounds just like what I

need now... Yeah, the pain, and the open wound, but I would lose

weight.

On a more serious note, you burn a rediculous number of calorise when

you are healing or sick... My brother two years ago had his tonsils,

adenoids, and tubes put in his ears.... He was 20 years old and

about6'3 " , 250 (Built like a football player). Between what ehe ate

at the hospital, pretty well cleaned his tray and asked for night

time snacks of cheese and crackers and cookies. And what we brought

him in from fast food places, the boy did nothing but eat. Not to

mention what his friends snuck in... He lost 8 pounds while he wsa

in the hospital for 4 days!

Think about it this way, you could have this surgical problem, and be

gaining weight!

Bekkah

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yeah i got the munchies too...always hungry...thats whats so funny

about it! ...kinda makes me wanna draw out the healing process just

to lose more..lol

i have noticed that eating fruit when i am hungry always makes me even

hungrier...you ever had that happen?

lorieann

Bekkah wrote:

> Give me your surgeons numer.... Losing 16 # sounds just like what I

> need now... Yeah, the pain, and the open wound, but I would lose

> weight.

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Janine I am with you!

I have gained nearly 30 punds since the beginning of the year. I

used to be a dancer and swimmer so I always had to be conscious

about my weight... When I was 115# (keep in mind that was high

school when I was dancing or swimming 6 hours a day), I thought I

would die if I hit 120#. Now at 165# and 5'7 " and only gaining more

weight, 170 and even 180# doesn't seem that bad..

Funny how pain seems to change your perspective.

Bekkah

>

> Hi Norma,

> Yes, i eat the wrong things everyday, it is the only comfort i

have.

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Hi Norma,

Sometimes I find myself in the same situation. I can go from one extreme to

the other of not wanting to eat anything. When I'm doing the grazing thing,

as I call it, I try to keep healthy foods available. Otherwise I'll go for the

ice cream, cookies, and candy.

I try to keep things like grapes, carrots, apples etc. around. Lately my

comfort food has been peanut butter and jelly. Oh well.....

Luckily these things don't last too long.

Kathleen in N.C.

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Hi Bekkah and group,

Yes, you are so right, my weight was always a big issue to me, now the pain has

taken over and wanting to get better, my weight is at the bottom of my

list....it is odd how i used to be devestated if i could not do my treadmill 2x

day, and now, it is the furthest thing from my mind, as i know, it only caused

me much more pain....

Not that i am happy to hear that your injections hurt, but, they treated me as i

was very unusal in the fact that they killed me, so i dont feel so alone now.

Or like i am a big baby and cannot take any kind of pain. This doc was rough

and did not have an ounce of compassion, he said to me, its really nothing...i

would love to get ahold of one of those injections and give him one

myslef....let him see how they are just NOTHING....the smuck, i should report

him for not using the betadine, they did not even have any there, it was only

alcohol pads, and he did not even use those everytime....he was very lazy and

rough, i did not like him at all.....maybe i will report him....i should i know,

but, i hate to hurt people....but, i could get an infection from my skin not

being perpared right....what jerks....thanks for writing back...and sharing your

experince with me...janine

[Guest guest]

Okay, Janine,

I think we all try to be nice people, but by not reporting him you

could potenetially hurt 10s of 100s of othe patients... Lets say

nothing bad happens with you long term. Just a little more pain, but

lets say the next person ends up with a muscular infection, which is

so easy to get into the blood stream, and dies of a septic

infection. Lets say it is a single mother of four kids... How

horrible would you feel if you read that in the paper and know you

could have done something to prevent it!

I know this has to be your decision, but we patients give doctors all

the power and becuase we treat them holier than thou, we often end up

getting stepped on. As patients we need to look out for each

other...

Bekkah

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Soome fruits are very high in suragem and wil produce a sugar high that when it

comes down, you want more food. Eating lower sugar fruits can help, as can

eating raw veggies.

Dix

lorieann wrote:

have noticed that eating fruit when i am hungry always makes me even

hungrier...you ever had that happen?