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This is definitely me. I never feel hungry in the morning until I’m nauseous. Fortunately, my wife found these protein bars at Costco that are pretty good. I’ve been packing one of those with me to work and i eat it just as I’m starting to feel gross (or all the coffee starts tearing up my stomach). Small enough that I don’t feel more sick, but enough food to get me through the rest of the day.
The only way I know it’s time to eat is when I start feeling sick, and then the only way I can get myself to eat is by forcing the munchies with a bunch of weed.
Aren’t bodies fun?! 😬
Nausea signal means your blood sugar is low. At least… that’s what it means for me. First time it happened, I was out all day playing paintball. Around 4 we stopped to go home and I was feeling nauseous as hell, went to a payphone to call my mom and have her come get me, throwing up mid-phone call. She thought I was just faking and told me to walk. But I felt so tired. I sat down and fell asleep for a little bit. Got up and started going home. Kept throwing up, and passing out. My best friend ran into me while skateboarding over to my house and I told him how I felt so he mashed off to my house to get my mom to take me seriously, but before they got back I guess someone called 911 and an ambulance showed up and checked me out. Had a blood sugar level of like 20 or something ridiculous on the meter and they gave me some juice and told me to get home and eat. Now any time I feel hunger pangs at all, I eat something.
Many people with ADHD simply don’t feel hunger as much as neurotypical people so we get nausea because of hunger when we happen to not eat for too long by accident.
Any idea where can I find more info on this specifically?
I believe there’s two pieces of science here:
- For at least some, this feeling is related to ADHD medicine. Many are appetite-suppressants (some people are even prescribed Vyvanse only for regulating appetite). So when our appetite is suppressed, nausea is the next thing.
- Initial hunger often comes in waves. So for those with hyperfoucus we often push through the first wave, and the body gives up in trying to tell us we’re hungry. So the thing that actually gets us to eat is again, nausea.
Do you drink coffee? And have you tried a day without?
I love coffee, but it fucks me up if I drink it before my first intake of food.
Though I keep doing it. And then some nicotine to seal the deal.
Good luck.
Given the sub, ADHD meds are the more likely reason - though coffee will definitely do it to a lesser extent.
Makes sense. I take 30 mg methylphenidate depots which I find quite mild in regards to appetite repression. Though I guess some may be on more severe medications or/and at higher doeses.
Back when I was on 5mg Ritalin (this was a long time ago now) I lost probably a third of my body weight, and could frequently live for days off a pack of chips or similar. Meds and mileage varies though.
