No appetite

I just completed my 2nd month of antibiotics and I have no appetite, nothing sounds good, just now thinking I better eat breakfast, just to get something in me. Also catching a cold, which doesn't help.

Are you all having this same problem?

Hi Revive, sorry to hear that your appetite is giving you problems.

Do you suffer from depression? Sometimes when I take certain medications they make me depressed and I lose my appetite. Whenever I am depressed, anything that I try to eat seems to make me gag and I just can't swallow it.

Is this problem something that happened right after starting the antibiotics or did you have it even before then?

teragram is right, sleep helps.

Its also important that you identify and try to remove your source of your lack of appetite. For instance, if you have morning nausea (like I did), try to boost your probiotics and drink kefir. If you just cant stomach anything do try and force feed yourself to eat things like plain oatmeal or hardboiled eggs. Eggs are a great source of vitamins that this disease strips us from.

I would eat the things that tempt you the most, like, for example, ice cream, chocolate, peanut butter in a smoothie, and sneak in a few things that are good for you.

I never used to turn down chocolate or peanut butter, but now I turn down chocolate only because I have to.

Ok, when I was nauseous, I didn't eat anything.

Margaret

I'm currently getting the opposite problems where I can stop feeling hungry and keep craving sugar and carbs.. Strange infection indeed.