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Wasting away
Apr. 23rd, 2025 08:46 pm You know you're fucked when no online body visualiser will display your weight accurately 💀
No, to be a little more serious though, my new ADHD medication has been doing as ADHD medication does. That's to say, I knew the side effects when I signed up for it. One of the very common side effects is weight loss/loss of appetite and I joked, saying that, "Oh, you know, I'm going to waste away because I've always had a bit of a small appetite anyways." But I was kidding then. I don't think I'm kidding anymore.
Because I made a timeline from when I had my weight first taken on March 28th and today's April 23rd, so it's been a little under a month. It's basically a month at this point. And, it's kinda dire, actually. Because I was 40kg when I went to the doctor's office and then proceeded to get a prescription, got it filled. Five days later, I dropped 600 grams. And then a week later, I dropped another 300. Two days later, I dropped 700 grams. Three days later after that, I dropped another 200. So currently I'm 38.2kg, so I am actually kind of wasting away. I have not been this weight since I was 14, which is dire.
From yesterday, I only had two meals in the last two days. I'm eating one meal a day, at best, and I'm just nauseous the entire time. I don't taste anything anymore. I don't feel hungry anymore. I just feel empty. Like, just a hole in my abdomen. And then I go to eat something, but I don't crave anything, and I don't taste anything. It's not that I don't have a sense of taste, it's just none of it leaves an impact on me. I have to force myself to eat the bare minimum past the nausea and even then it's a struggle. It sucks because it's not like I have an eating disorder, and imagine how embarrassing it is to be malnourished in this day and age while not in poverty. I'm tired all the time.
It's another example why BMI is fucked as a scale if you have a height or weight that's not in the middling range. Most models/tables don't go below 45kg or 40kg, and a lot of them give conflicting results. According to the NHS, I'm in a healthy range (barely), but to the CDC, I'm underweight so what is it? It also doesn't help that there's no way for me to accurately keep track of body fat because all the visual comparisons are for athletes or bodybuilders, and I do ZERO exercise. It's doubly fucked that even though I'm "underweight", visually I'm doing fine, healthy, desirable even. But it suckssss.
I don't know what to do anymore. I have a doctor's call in a week so I'll see what they can do, but god I don't know how much longer I can take this.
It's another example why BMI is fucked as a scale if you have a height or weight that's not in the middling range. Most models/tables don't go below 45kg or 40kg, and a lot of them give conflicting results. According to the NHS, I'm in a healthy range (barely), but to the CDC, I'm underweight so what is it? It also doesn't help that there's no way for me to accurately keep track of body fat because all the visual comparisons are for athletes or bodybuilders, and I do ZERO exercise. It's doubly fucked that even though I'm "underweight", visually I'm doing fine, healthy, desirable even. But it suckssss.
I don't know what to do anymore. I have a doctor's call in a week so I'll see what they can do, but god I don't know how much longer I can take this.
