I feel like I'm fucking dying.
I went on fluoxetine on 25th July and holyshit my appetite has just been plummeting since then. It went to forcing one meal down myself and snacks throughout the day, to having a meal every two days, to having half a meal every two days, and now I'm just surviving mainly on like one bar of chocolate a day because it's the only thing I can stomach. Not healthy for me I know but the thought of anything else makes me feel like I'm gonna fucking puke. The last proper meal I had was 3 days ago, little James had a Happy Meal from Mcdonalds. Honestly though I feel so ill. (Warning: TMI) the lack of food has fucked my digestive system, so I've got diarrhea and my stomach is in agony and even one bite of a chocolate bar this morning made me literally wanna throw it back up.
I've come off the fluoxetine. I stopped taking it. I didn't take it this morning because at first the not eating was okay (I felt fucking superhuman being able to go and go and go without any food - okay maybe the antidepressant triggered manic symptoms in the first week) but now I just can't do it anymore. I get overcome with this absolutely awful feeling that I'm sure people here are familiar with... when your stomach is absolutely empty and probably digesting itself and you just feel like you're dying. That's how I felt tonight.
Hopefully my appetite will come back within a few days (I fucking hope, I'm going to collapse soon if it doesn't). But until then I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to cope with this (not encouraging people to be pro-ana or anything, but some tips on how you guys actually handle not eating for long periods of time would be great, just to get me through it). Any types of food that are particularly easy to eat during the nauseous "I'M DYING" stage where you feel like you have to get someting down you but you just feel far too ill to eat?
Thanks :/
Kaz x
I went on fluoxetine on 25th July and holyshit my appetite has just been plummeting since then. It went to forcing one meal down myself and snacks throughout the day, to having a meal every two days, to having half a meal every two days, and now I'm just surviving mainly on like one bar of chocolate a day because it's the only thing I can stomach. Not healthy for me I know but the thought of anything else makes me feel like I'm gonna fucking puke. The last proper meal I had was 3 days ago, little James had a Happy Meal from Mcdonalds. Honestly though I feel so ill. (Warning: TMI) the lack of food has fucked my digestive system, so I've got diarrhea and my stomach is in agony and even one bite of a chocolate bar this morning made me literally wanna throw it back up.
I've come off the fluoxetine. I stopped taking it. I didn't take it this morning because at first the not eating was okay (I felt fucking superhuman being able to go and go and go without any food - okay maybe the antidepressant triggered manic symptoms in the first week) but now I just can't do it anymore. I get overcome with this absolutely awful feeling that I'm sure people here are familiar with... when your stomach is absolutely empty and probably digesting itself and you just feel like you're dying. That's how I felt tonight.
Hopefully my appetite will come back within a few days (I fucking hope, I'm going to collapse soon if it doesn't). But until then I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to cope with this (not encouraging people to be pro-ana or anything, but some tips on how you guys actually handle not eating for long periods of time would be great, just to get me through it). Any types of food that are particularly easy to eat during the nauseous "I'M DYING" stage where you feel like you have to get someting down you but you just feel far too ill to eat?
Thanks :/
Kaz x