The effects of anxiety are related to what creates the 'helper' going into 'high alert' rather than 'aware alert'.

Once you notice the awareness of anxiety, such as loss of appetite, it brings a path to a better balance through trial and error tips.

Here's to you healing!

my doctors have compared the physical effects of our all-natural anxiety hormones to the physical effects of methamphetamines. given time, they are quite lethal and no fun, either.

i know many anxiety sufferers who overeat when they are anxious, but i lose my appetite when i am anxious. i can't afford to lose weight any more than my comfort eating friends can afford to gain.

Check out this website “anxietycentre.com.” Anxiety affects the body as well as the mind. This website is an excellent place to educate one’s self on how anxiety affects the body.

Thank you Mid, Arfie, and Mtd for your responses. I appreciate them a lot. The reason I had asked the question about does anxiety cause you to lose weight. Before I got sick, I weighed over 197 and now I am 180 and losing weight still. I can not find the people I used to talk to whenever I feel bad. I was feeling under the weather (emotionally) before I got sick and when I came home from the hospital, I felt bad because I thought I had caused others to feel bad and whenever something happen, it was my fault. I can not get in touch with my cousin. The last time I talked with him, he felt bad, he said that he had a doctor's appointment and did not mean to call me. He also said that his oxygen was low and needed to go, after that I did could not talk with him; I've called him for almost a week. I've also called his sister and I could not get in touch with her either. They live in another state. I've mentioned this before, I've lost my dad in 2021 around this time of year. There is some stress going on in our lives.

I wonder can anxiety cause seizures too? When I had on about 2 weeks ago, I was admitted into the hospital. I do not remember ever being admitted into the hospital in the past. They would check out to see if I can take a few steps on my own and then tell me to go home. After I came home, I just carried on where I left off at and did not notice anything ever happening to me.

Again, thank you all for talking to me.

Winter I think it could go both ways.
Some people overeat when their anxious and some people don't have an appetite.

For me personally and this is just me because everyone is different, Anxiety doesn't effect my appetite at all. I still eat. It effects my sleeping though. Lately though I've been doing pretty good sleeping. Maybe getting up once a night to use the bathroom. I drink alot of water through out the day and I guess in the middle of the night it wants to come out.lol

Me personally, I eat less when my anxiety is acting up
If I feel depressed, sometimes I eat too much
I know caffeine is bad for anxiety, but I’m not smart about that and I will have Coke/Pepsi even with anxiety going on
Supposedly stress is the number one killer and is very hard on the body
I definitely associate anxiety with stress.
One thing I am careful with a lot of times if I’m having an anxiety issue is I am careful with any beer consumption. It seems like alcohol can make depression or anxiety worse

Yea, before I got sick, I did not sleep much, I got maybe 3 or 4 hours of sleep. Sometimes I would drink pepsi (some type of soda because I had craved the taste of it) I had now changed my diet, I don't drink soda and I still eat sweets but not much).

I've heard that when a person has anxiety, they should stay away from soda and sweets. My Dilantin level had also went down to 7.4. The level is suppose to be 10 to 20. I wonder did my stress bring it down? They had increased my dilantin. I now take two pills in the morning and two at night. I used to take only 3-1 in the morning and two at night. They wanted to put me on another seizure medicine plus take the Dilantin, I made up my mind, "no way". The other one has more side effects than Dilantin.