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Forgetting to eat when there is no hunger cue at all

Started 17 March 2026 · 17 replies · 126 hearts · read 1.7k times

AnnikaStockholm, SE · 17 March 2026
4 months ago

Forgetting to eat when there is no hunger cue at all — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

Not asking anyone to fix this. Mostly saying it out loud somewhere it will be read kindly.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

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.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#1

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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WilfStoke, UK
#3

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

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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SoniaValencia, ES
#4

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

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#5

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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NixLeith, UK
#6

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

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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ObieNashville, TN
#7

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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TobiasHamburg, DE
#8

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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GwilymCaernarfon, UK
#9

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

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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Bryn MNeath, UK
#10

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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TarqWindsor, UK
#11

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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AnnikaStockholm, SE
#12

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

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EsmeAix-en-Provence, FR
#13

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

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TacitaRome, IT
#14

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

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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WilfStoke, UK
#15

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK
#16

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

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LeifTrondheim, NO
#17

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

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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