no no it is not.
being a bag of skeletons that do not like each other, eating 5000 calories a day and losing weight, that is not fun.
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0x0@lemmy.zip 1 day agoNice superpower.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah luckily I don’t have it quite that bad, (especially after I went on an exclusion diet and slowly added things to a really plain diet and sort of figured a bit what works what doesn’t) but, yes, I definitely agree with you. Not fun.
I’d rather be fat and jolly than slim and super cranky from constantly being in some weird state of mild starvation. But it’s so mild and I make sure to supplement vitamins and whatnot so none of my basic lab-work is showing anything too far out of the ordinary, so the busy public doctors can’t be bothered to look into it since to them everything seems fine. Even when I can show them almost a years worth of literally shit pics, me having taken photographs of my stinky and floating orange poo. (I sent them to a spam-email I have so I don’t have to keep them in my phone’s gallery.)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I had a massive infection when I was that. It wasn’t just the malabsorption with me, but doctors insist you can only have one health problem at a time. I’m down to 3500 now and maintaining a healthy weight, so 👍
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I started smoking weed about around 16 or 18. Not often. But pretty daily from my mid 20’s at least. Definitely helps with eating and nausea or gi-pain. (Sitting on the toilet for an hour or two is much easier when you also have a bong and a phone with you.)
I don’t have a lot of infections and am generally “within normal parameters” as like you say, the doctors can only think there’s a single problem at a time. And at least here I always get a new doctor for most visits and I get like 30 min meeting every blue moon.
The public doctors kinda suck for complex, chronic issues. And I can’t afford private ones to that extent.
I don’t think my malabsorption is quite as bad as yours, but then I also randomly get seizures, to which I’ve gotten zero explanations for. Tested for epilepsy and had and MRI and whatnot, but nothing. But since Finland is kinda backwards when it comes to cannabis, they blamed it on my “drug use”. (Even though I have high CBD strains and they’re literally anti-convulsants to a degree iirc.)
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sort of and also not. Not getting energy from food also means I have no energy for you know, existing.
So while I might not need to worry about getting fat, I’ve also nowhere to display not being fat.
I tend to sleep quite a lot. Image
autriyo@feddit.org 20 hours ago
eep sleep
Dasus@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
And “ight sleep”. Like aaaight, that waa good enough. Lol.
it’s deep and light ofc they scroll the text and I toon a bad photo
autriyo@feddit.org 17 hours ago
It’s extra funny because there’s enough space to not scroll the text.
horse@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Do you do any sports? I’m the same. Can eat as much as and whatever I want, while always staying under 60kg (I’m 176cm).
Counter intuitively, I am healthier and have more energy since I started doing endurance sports (cycling). My weight got down to 48kg at one point before I started exercising, but I’m consistently around 57-58kg now. It increased my appetite and I eat even more now, but I feel infinitely better. Plus I have the perfect body for endurance. I’m not strong, but I can keep going for very long time and being light means I’m really good at going uphill.
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Nah no sports. Haven’t even got the energy to clean my apartment. I go for walks every now and then but no sports.
I did have similar/same issues even when I was in the army, (not the American one, Finnish, conscription, served a year) and nah, being active all the time didn’t make me less tired. I manage to get myself in a position where I had my own office and could just sleep a few hours more than the other guys. And we ate 4-5 times a day and couldn’t skip meals most times, so I actually did end up gaining weight as I suffered more from constipation back then than diarrhea like now. But during basic training I’d have a lot of sick-days. To the point our captain asked me whether I was sure I could make it in the “pre-officer training” or however I’d translate the training enlisted ranks (sergeants of different sorts) course. We call it “under-officer school” more or less. But anyway I thought they’d figure out my issues and I’d have less sick-days. But I didn’t. But during basic I would fall asleep at any point. 5-min break for smokes? That’s a nap.
I did have loads of endurance as well to be honest. Man were the officers of my age (so the guys who were in basic with me but later became officers and thought themselves tough shit) shocked when they couldn’t keep up with 90+ kg me in a Cooper test (running distance for 12min.) To be fair I kinda shocked myself by running 3k.
But yeah after the army I discovered that anything spicy at least keeps me from getting constipated. But it doesn’t directly cause diarrhea for me, I’m like 98% certain. Gluten and milk protein seem to be the worst offenders currently and am considering that it’s NCGS (Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity) but if I’d read someone saying that a few years ago, I wouldn’t believe them. I think they’re just imagining it or at least exacerbating it. I’d think I’d sound like a middle-age crystal Karen. But nah, it’s also an actual thing recognised by actual doctors and the literature.
But because I had no damage to the intestines when they checked it, they are fairly certain I don’t have coeliacs. As I think am I (I would’ve been in far worse condition). But because of this somewhat milder form of some sort of gastric and metabolic issues, the public doctors can’t be arsed.
dil@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Youve prob tried everything but have you tried modafinil, was hyped up as a limitless pill (is nowhere near it ofch) but you dont feel sleepy on it and thats what the army uses it for or used it for at some point.
Dasus@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I haven’t tried modafinil no. Should give it a whack if any comes available. I used to have a classmate who was on it but that was 10+ year’s ago and I didn’t really know him.
What actually worked best was the very plain diet but I just… it’s just so boring eating nothing but rice and gluten free fish sticks. But then I started to be able to just easily sleep 6 hours and get up. Felt like a real person. Because genuinely oftentimes if I try to get up but haven’t gotten enough rest, I’ll be worse off than when I’ve had a bottle of rum. Like my eyes won’t go straight and I can’t really get up properly.
Although I have to admit that some of these later long sleeps have been contributed to by the new meds I got for a broken rib, amitriptyline or the like. But it’s alaovi used for IBS and depression, and neither of those are going amiss for me basically.
But man it’s tiring. Idk how that would help anyone with depression. I mean yeah I care less about being tired and am not as annoyed about sleeping more than half the day but I don’t feel like it’s really helped my depression at all if it keeps me asleep for more than half the day.
But even without it I have issues. And I open curtains and have automatic lights to come on full at a decent wakeup time.
But yeah I could give modafinil a whack if i had some idk. But I think I’ll just have to to back to rice/fish/potatoes/chicken diet.