I lost my appetite for a period of time after the accident. Then I had weird food cravings - first salt for weeks on end, then sugary gooey stuff for months on end.

Are you on any medications? I do know some of th emedications used to Treat TBIs will cause this.

Lanie - how long did your lack of hunger last for? Any tips for remembering to eat?

DBG - I am on meds, but they have changed a few times, and my lack of hunger has been a constant right from the time of accident.

Yes, I've had that since my accident. I also lost my sense of smell. I attribute the 2 as being tied together. If you can't smell it...it doesn't tantilize your taste buds...which by the way I didn't lose, but that happens a lot too!

I would not eat if someone didn't remind me. I have felt actual hunger pains...3 times in 2 years. Usually when I haven't eaten for a whole day. The body's way of saying...hey did you forget me??

My husband was and still is very good about asking what I had for breakfast and lunch then he woould make sure I had dinner of some sort because...honestly it is hard to eat if you are not hungry!

When I returned to work, he knew the fellow that cooks in our cafeteria and he had him watch me. Basically he was helping me set a schedule...and I follow it to this day unless something in my daily schedule changes.

I don't eat a lot...and ya, I'm gaining weight because of it. What I do it the body stores. We are working on a new schedule that I eat healthy snacks periodically throughout the day to stop that problem. Trouble is...I don't think about it until someone else makes a comment about them being hungry. LOL!!

I need to make some kind of reminder of how far out we all are from our initial TBI/event. I lost my appetite for months because I lost my sense of taste and smell. Food tasted like nothing, my favorite things were nothing. It was poinless. For unknown reasons my sense of taste and smell slowly began to return after a few months. (My neuro was shocked. They told me that it is unusual to have those senses return. I am so thankful they didn't tell me that until after I could smell again.)

I also think losing your appetite is a symptom of depression and speaking for myself it is a daily battle to not sink into sadness.

Thank you all so much for your comments. It is such a relief to hear that there are others out there like me, lol. Especially when my specialists, and even dietician, say that it's really weird for me not to have hunger. I really appreciate the support.

It doesn't sound weird at all that you lost your appetite. You can see by the responses that it sounds pretty common actually.

I can't remember how long it was that I lost my appetite...sorry about that but I have memory loss for a period of time after the accident.

I don't think I even realized I wasn't eating until my husband would ask me if I ate, and I looked at him blankly. Sounds like you need to do what Sporty & NSM do & make a schedule.

I find I still don't have a huge appetite but I can't tell if it's just because I'm not working out. Normally (aka pre-injury) I worked out every day so I always was hungry after working out.

my taste completely changed. I started out normal and over 6 weeks, I could not stand carbonated drinks and what I once hated coffee now I love. I look at it as a blessing, because I stopped drinking soda entirely and now drink one cup of coffee for caffeine. as for hunger, it was a stress-related eating habit for several months after the accident and like elanielanie, it was salt related, but now, it's normal after 18 months.