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I keep forgetting to eat and then feeling awful

Started 2 October 2025 · 14 replies · 112 hearts · read 1.9k times

OllieCardiff, UK · 2 October 2025
10 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: I keep forgetting to eat and then feeling awful Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I do not know if this belongs in this circle. Move me if not.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

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NellaUtrecht, NL
#1

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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MargueriteQuebec City, CA
#2

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#3

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#4

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TavishIsle of Skye, UK
#5

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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BlueStroud, UK
#6

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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SindriReykjavík, IS
#7

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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KateBelfast, NI
#8

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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OndineLausanne, CH
#9

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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Ozzy GWalsall, UK
#10

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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StefanZurich, CH
#11

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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BramleyBath, UK
#12

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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EsiFacilitatorToronto, Canada
#13

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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NikoTbilisi, GE
#14

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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