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Decreased appetite after stroke
Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: Aug 16 1:26pm | Replies (35)Comment receiving replies
So glad to have found this thread. I am 52 years old, had a mini-stroke on December 30th. Since then, my sense of taste has been off, and I can't eat most foods, they feel uncomfortably dry in my mouth, and I'm never hungry. I am basically living on soup. I am morbidly obese, weighing around 285 when I had my stroke, down to 245 now. My doctor is stumped, my stroke doctor wants me to follow-up with a gastroenterologist. My stomach feels fine, but I am never hungry. My mouth sometimes feels kind of nauseous, I eat because I have to, not because I want to. It's very frustrating and I wish so badly I could eat normally.
Sue
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Sue, when I had a stroke five years ago, I didn't want to eat anything for months.
When I did eat, I would often bite my upper lip so hard I'd draw blood. That didn't help.
I lost about 40 pounds over the first six months.
Slowly (over years), I regained an appetite, but I had really strange cravings. For example, for a while I couldn't get enough canned peaches in extra-light syrup! Seriously, I ate dozens of cans. Then I wanted salads and nothing else. And foods I had enjoyed, like Mexican, seemed nauseating.
Anyway, over the years, I'm sort-of back to normal. (Regained most of the weight, too, dammit!)
Traumatic brain injuries do weird things to you. I, and most other stroke patients I've talked to, were so terrified after the event that *everything* was out of whack for an extended period of time.
Give it time. You'll be okay, I bet.