Did you take antibiotics recently, the microbes in your intestines may have gotten screwed up.
I had to look up what you are on your way through, GCSES, and this kind of stress or pressure can mess up your eating and sleeping. Not having control over it or your future, and being in a pivotal time like this, can cause you to want to control food, hence your desire to not eat. Besides your visit to the doctor, could you talk to a counselor at school?
I understand your distress about having anorexia; unless you’ve been there, you have no idea how distressing it can be to realize you really need to eat but just can’t stomach the idea of food. Note however that healthy adults can go for really long periods without eating without any negative long-term health impact.
Any viral infection, no matter how minor, triggers a two to three week period of anorexia in me. The worst was when I got whooping cough. The coughing until puking was bad enough; the anorexia that came later was even worse. I didn’t eat anything for 21 days. It was very distressing. I don’t even known how to explain feeling hungry and feeling disgusted by food at the same time.
I suggest seeing a doctor to be sure it’s not some other physical problem because a lot of diseases can cause anorexia.
Stress may be your anorexia trigger.
I keep high-protein nutritional shakes on hand these days. Whenever I get a viral illness and the anorexia kicks in I very slowly sip them and just wait for it to stop.
If you’ve taken antibiotics and have been sexually active, you could be pregnant. Antibiotics tend to reduce the effectiveness of the pill. That’s why doctors are supposed to tell you to use other contraceptives while taking antibiotics.
Echoing the thread sentiment: see a doctor. Be brutally honest with him/her.
I’m going with hypothyroidism. I have this too and if I go off my meds (synthroid), my appetite is nonexistent.
It’s either that or lupus.
I went through nearly exactly what you are going through a few years back, including the lack of weight loss, I also had random abdominal pain that came and went. I never got a definitive diagnosis for the lack of appetite, but I’m more or less back on track now. I rarely have hunger, but I have appetite for 3 meals per day.
I can narrow down two factors which seemed to influence my issue.
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Oatmeal - I was not trying to lose weight so I was trying to keep up an average calorie ingestion daily. To do this I was starting the day with a nice big bowl of oatmeal made with milk. I guess my body doesn’t like oatmeal, replacing that with a couple of poached eggs or raisin bran mostly solved the issue.
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Endometriosis - endometriosis can grow on the bowel, and issues with the bowel are pretty likely to cause lack of appetite. But I don’t know if it’s likely to have bowel endometriosis without pain, maybe some MDs can chime in on that one. If your contraceptive pill is a combination pill then that can allow endometriosis to grow. Have you considered something like a progesterone only contraceptive like mirena or depo provera?
Also as mentioned above stress can wreak havok on your digestive system. Can you try to prioritize things which relax you, a meal with friends, exercise, a massage?
Also, it’s never lupus.
I had very similar symptoms a decade ago. It doesn’t matter what I had because you are not me, I’m not a doctor and you are only reporting part of the evidence a doctor would use to diagnose. I had a systemic disease that most people would have never heard of. I am still alive and healthy, thanks to the medical skills of properly trained people who knew how to use blood tests.
None of us here can diagnose nor help.
Please do as advised and see a doctor soon. Please.
I thought the cure involved four hard-boiled eggs, three cookies, and two fist-sized rocks.
Maybe it’s a tumor.
Sounds like lupus to me.
More seriously, I’d also second Enola Gay’s recommendation to get tested for hypothyroidism. Some of your symptoms sound similar, especially the bit about not eating yet not losing weight, and your difficulties with thermal regulation. Your thyroid regulates your metabolism and has far-reaching effects throughout your body, both physically and mentally.
That said, however, it could be any number of things, so get thee to a physician sooner rather than later. If you can move your appointment up, I would do so.
Have they tested for sarcoidosis?
Plus we can’t be sure the OP isn’t lying. Everyone lies.