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Malnutrition/Sickness
12 years ago
A month ago, yes, a month (4th of February), I got sick. I never really got over it. Then on February 20, I got sick again. Once again, I never really got over it... and now today, the 2nd of March, I'm once again sick. Sore throat, and fighting the urge to vomit. Severe urge.
It always starts with a sore throat. Then severe nausea, in which I may or may not throw up. After that goes away, I have just a general sick feeling. And always a cough. Always - Since the first sickness, which keeps me up at night. Haven't had a great night of sleep since the first sickness.
My brother said it sounds like I'm malnourished, which would be why I can't recover.
It's true. According to the height and age chart thing, I am 30 pounds underweight. I never really thought about it before, because it's never really been brought to my attention. I eat when I'm hungry, but I don't over eat. Even if I wanted to, I can't, as my stomach just doesn't let me over eat (I will get VERY sick if I eat too much). And it has been that way my whole life. When my mom would make dinner, I would get less than half of what everyone else got because I simply wouldn't be able to finish it otherwise (and sometimes I still didn't, even that small amount). I wasn't conditioned to eat that little... in fact everyone always tried to make me eat more, it's just how my body is.
Generally on a work day (so 5 days a week), I eat a bowl of raisin bran with coconut or soy milk around lunch time ("breakfast" for me) and then at work my "lunch" (more like dinner) is a bento box of fruits and veggies and a cup of tea. The bento is generally small, around 280ml (which you can say would equal about 280 calories), but seeing as it's fruits and veggies, it's not that many calories. So... even on the high end, I'm not coming any where near to even 1000 calories per work day.
But... I'm not hungry, or starving myself, and I don't SEEM to be losing weight... but my scale is WiiFit... so who knows how correct that is.
A note: I take a plethora of vitamins everyday, so that's not the issue. And since getting sick, I've been taking double the vitamin c, d, echinacea, and zinc. It doesn't seem to make any difference.
However, I'm also under a lot of stress right now. And as far as I'm told, stress doesn't help in the sick department.
So I'm not sure if it's stress, malnutrition or both that is keeping me sick. I can't go to a doctor because I don't have insurance.
Has anyone else ever fallen ill, and never really recovered from it, or taken forever to recover from it?
It always starts with a sore throat. Then severe nausea, in which I may or may not throw up. After that goes away, I have just a general sick feeling. And always a cough. Always - Since the first sickness, which keeps me up at night. Haven't had a great night of sleep since the first sickness.
My brother said it sounds like I'm malnourished, which would be why I can't recover.
It's true. According to the height and age chart thing, I am 30 pounds underweight. I never really thought about it before, because it's never really been brought to my attention. I eat when I'm hungry, but I don't over eat. Even if I wanted to, I can't, as my stomach just doesn't let me over eat (I will get VERY sick if I eat too much). And it has been that way my whole life. When my mom would make dinner, I would get less than half of what everyone else got because I simply wouldn't be able to finish it otherwise (and sometimes I still didn't, even that small amount). I wasn't conditioned to eat that little... in fact everyone always tried to make me eat more, it's just how my body is.
Generally on a work day (so 5 days a week), I eat a bowl of raisin bran with coconut or soy milk around lunch time ("breakfast" for me) and then at work my "lunch" (more like dinner) is a bento box of fruits and veggies and a cup of tea. The bento is generally small, around 280ml (which you can say would equal about 280 calories), but seeing as it's fruits and veggies, it's not that many calories. So... even on the high end, I'm not coming any where near to even 1000 calories per work day.
But... I'm not hungry, or starving myself, and I don't SEEM to be losing weight... but my scale is WiiFit... so who knows how correct that is.
A note: I take a plethora of vitamins everyday, so that's not the issue. And since getting sick, I've been taking double the vitamin c, d, echinacea, and zinc. It doesn't seem to make any difference.
However, I'm also under a lot of stress right now. And as far as I'm told, stress doesn't help in the sick department.
So I'm not sure if it's stress, malnutrition or both that is keeping me sick. I can't go to a doctor because I don't have insurance.
Has anyone else ever fallen ill, and never really recovered from it, or taken forever to recover from it?
Same issue. Except im 15 lbs overweight. According to the doctor the stress is just weakening an already weakened immune system making it extremely easy to fall ill. Basically just said avoid stress and get plenty of healthy stuff.
Also ive seen people that umderweight who are completely healthy. I think everyone functions at different levels. So you may be just too stressed out.
I figured stress was a part of it. I've been under so much stress lately... too much to type, and too much to talk about. Unfortunately, I can't say when this stress will end. I'll just have to wait and see u__u
And I hope you get better as well. It seriously SUCKS to keep getting sick over and over without ever recovering.
Yeah i know. The most you can do is find an activity you enjoy between the stress. Honestly i was tired of taking pills for everything, i think it only makes it worse. Your body relies too much on the medicine it gets too lazy to fight for itself.
The sore throat is the worst part for me. I cant eat/drink or anything without pain.
Im both sad and happy to know someone is going through the same thing. Ive tried drinking lemon honey tea for the soreness but id have to drink a gallon of it since it just creeps right back after im domr. X3 I dont know what you've tried but maybe we can beat this. Lol
I'm a chronic tea drinker, but when it comes to the sore throat, you are correct saying that after you finish it, you're hurting again u__u