i don't have that problem. I eat nonstop during the day. I would contact your doctor. I'm sure he can give you something to increase your appetite or something to control the nausea. Try to at least drink something so you can stay hydrated. Good luck! Keep us posted on how you are doing.

I am in the same boat as you my friend as I don't have any apetite at all. I really have to force myself to eat as well. I have been struggling with this for 2 years now and it isn't getting much better for me either. I will kind of eat one meal a day and then I feel sick most of the time too, so it makes me not want to eat. I don't have the weight to loose either though and never have. I am tiny to begin with. If anyone finds something to help with apetite please let me know. My doctors never seem concerned about it at all and only my Nathropathic does and we have tried a few things but nothing worked on me so far.

After years of no apetitie and 2 hospitalizations for 40 lb weight loss I found a doctor who prescribed medication to increase my apetite! Still take it today. It is a pill and it is called megace (brand name) or megestrol (generic). I had to play around with dose so I didn't eat too much (lol). Take 1 pill 3x per week - have to check dose.

It is given to elderly ad patients with the Aids wasting syndrome. They get it in liquid form. I remember you saying you worked with Aids patients as a nursr so maybe you came across it?

Anyhow in all the yearsI have had no apetite only this one dr. came up with this drug. It worked like a miracle for me.

Hope that helps.

Melanie

I havent heard of that one, I love food and have to stop myself especially when cant excercise. You really must drink though, maybe try those re-hydration drinks (Gatorade poweraid ect) then at least your getting fluids..
That would too make your energy even worse...Try that pill that myideas suggested worth a try....good luck with it all

I'm in the same boat too! Have been struggling with appetite for a number of years. It's as though I forget to eat, and when food is put infront of me, eat as a social curtosy. I have always been considered fussy, but I like to think that I know what I like. However, I did used to always want to eat. Now even a big bar of choccie raises no interest. I do have occasional times when appetite kicks in and I eat normally for a day or two, but that is a rare happening. I've asked various specialists if this is the MS's doing, and always get the same answer that it's not a known MS symptom, and my queries get directed to it being an eating disorder, that I am in some way scared of being overweight - I never was over-weight when I ate well, and this makes no sense to me. My thinking is that the CNS has some role in appetite, so why couldn't it be affected by MS. Would be really interested to hear from other MSers with this issue. I do feel much better when I have eaten well.

Hi Jackie,

Prior to my diagnosis in 1995, I was quite overweight. After the DX, I began to lose weight and I lost a lot of weight (like 50 lbs.). Here it is now some 17 years later and I now weigh what I weighed when I graduated from high school.
I don't have a great appetite for anything much either. My doctor doesn't seem to care as she is one of these health fanatics that thinks that anyone that weighs more than 120 lbs. is fat. So, I guess I'm still fat according to her.
That said, I felt better and had more energy when I was heavier. I used to be able to get around a lot more and walked a lot more too.
It is not like I am a rack of bones or anything close to that, but still, to lose 50 lbs. for no reason seem odd to me.
It was after this weight loss that I began having pains in my stomach and I found out I have diverticulitis. I almost died from this problem.
I'm a bit better now but still, not much of an appetite and I sure don't enjoy cooking anymore. :(
I wish I had a better answer for you but I don't.
Take care and try to eat healthy when you do eat!
Your friend,
hope4acure

hi- have you had a blood test lately? i do that some but yes id get it checked out!! hugs!! hope you are better!

thanks..i need bloodwork i have a script for it but no money to get it done (no ins).. and i completly forgot about megace- i have given it but years ago hmm i like that idea i ate dinner last nite n 4 bowels of cereal lol i was super hungry.. i go to the doc again next week to see whats up wit this mess.. its super unhealthy

I had the same problem. I was overweight and was dieting before I knew I had MS. I had been on the weight rollercoaster for years. But this time the rollercoaster would not stop going down and I couldn't stop it. I ended up at dx being 20 lbs underweight! When I was put on Celexa for depression, that ended. Now I am finally hungry again and fighting my weight.
Gentle hugs, Linda

i have had the same thing happen to me. i have lost 60 lbs in about 9 months, and believe me i sure needed to lose those pounds. i went from 200 to 140. i am on copaxone (have been for 5 yrs,) though i have never experienced anything like this.
i eat the same food i was eating before, but just not the quantity.
i guess it a good thing?
btw, it has not improved the condition of my MS.\
kelly