Stroke survivor - always hungry

After reading these comments, I no longer feel that I am imagining this. Trying to get my mom to understand the volume and frequency of her intake has been a source of frustration for over two years.

I am having the the same problem. I KNOW HOW SHE feels
S. AND I am limited with my fitness due to left side being flasid. I'm still in rehab to gain my left arm, hand,leg and foot use back. I AM 39. I had a blood clot on the right side of my brain. This is harder than child birth to recover from. It's very frustrating. My leg is getting better but arm and hand are going to to take longer.

Hi, I just saw this post, and wondered how your brother is doing. I’m currently dealing with the same situation, with my significant other, who had stroke about 4 years ago, then a grand mal seizure 2 years ago. He is constantly hungry, regardless of how much he eats, and it’s physically painful for him. He eats clean, was an elite athlete all his life, now 59, and this has been crushing him.

We’re you able to find answers or solutions? His doctors have checked hormones, but nothing out of the normal range, so we’re struggling to find a solution. Any advice or information you might have, would be very much appreciated.

Hi
I went through the same issue n put quite a bit pounds.
I was overeating n could not understand why.
It’s been 22 months since my stroke n now is that am getting a little control of overeating.
What I found out is that is not that ur hungry, is a kind of stress anxiety in the nervous system area of the brain that was affected, the one that controls ur r full after eating, so for being affected u don’t have control n makes feel u want to eat more n more even after finishing a meal.
I will suggest give her a camomile tea during or after meals, camomile calms u down, soothes anxiety.
Try to give her fresh fruits, lot of liquids.
Yeah I remembered waking up in the middle of the night to cook n eat.
What happened is that her brain was affected in the control area, that’s why she cannot have control of the eating n overeats.
Hope this helps. Be patient. Strokes are serious. I had 2 already.

Hi
Read my experience below.
Drs only know so much .

Definitely her stroke damaged her Hypothalamus
Hypothalamus is the portion of your brain that controls hunger. hormone cortisol, which can create hunger
hypothalamus controls emotions.
regulates your body's temperature
controls crucial urges, such as eating or sleeping.

What organ controls hunger and satiety ?
the hypothalamus
These processes show that the hypothalamus is the key central integrator of various hunger signals from the body.

What signals the brain to stop eating ?
Cholecystokinin (CCK): When we eat fat and protein, the gut releases CCK, telling your brain (through the vagus nerve) to stop eating.

a high-protein breakfast might prevent from overeating at dinner

Your body has a system for managing your
long-term energy and nutrient needs.
It’s called the leptin feedback loop.

Leptin is a hormone that’s released by fat tissue. Leptin tells the brain how much energy we’ve just consumed and how much excess energy we have stored up (as fat). The more body fat we have, the more leptin in our blood

The brain makes decisions based on leptin levels about hunger, calorie intake, nutrient absorption, and energy use and storage.

symptoms of a hypothalamus problem
High blood pressure
low blood pressure.
Water retention
dehydration.
Weight loss
weight gain with or without changes in appetite

Strokes change ur life completely.
U almost become another person
Changes ur personality.
So I suggest, be patient w him, let him be, remember is not his fault to be acting like this.
I had 2 strokes n changed me.
Even my closest family, grown up kids, don’t understand me w all this changes. I became a little isolated from their opinion in order to learn n adapt to my new me.
Read about stroke damages to Hypothalamus or damage to the Amígdala n u will understand him better.