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I wonder if there are people who overeat because of chronic pain.
by danharaj 9y ago
I wonder if there are people who overeat because of chronic pain.
- tajen 9y agoWould you consider depression or lack of affection a kind of chronic pain ;) ?
- amerkhalid 9y agoit would be other way around, they will eat less to dampen chronic pain.
- Arbitrary456456 9y agoI imagine they'd put off eating as long as they could, and then give into the hunger.
- sametmax 9y agoThe thing is, with health, if the effect of you action are not immediat, you are much less likely to do the right thing. E.g : i know that if a drink a lot of raw milk i generally get a migraine. But it happens 24 to 48 h later. So i still drink milk from time to time because i'm not punished immediatly. It's future me's problem.
- taneq 9y agoAh, the old causey-effecty switcheroo.
- ravitation 9y agoAnecdotally, I find the dopamine hit of eating (a lot unhealthy food) is a worth more to me to any dampening effects. Because while I might be in slightly less discomfort, I'm still in discomfort but also hungry...
- jacobush 9y agoI am sorry I can't parse this. You rather eat and keep the pain?
- michaelmior 9y agoMy parsing is that full + more pain > hungry + less pain. That is, the marginal benefit of eating is of great enough value to offset whatever additional pain is experienced.
- ravitation 9y agoYeah, exactly. I don't know why I worded my original comment so weirdly.
- code_duck 9y agoI have chronic pain triggered by/related to eating, tied to celiac, dysphagia and maybe gerd. The odd thing is the pain is relieved while eating and 5-10 minutes afterwards, and in the past the discomfort used to spur me to keep eating. I can’t really say the pain is lessened by hunger, because I spend plenty of time hungry and also in pain (I’ve lost 45 lbs since Jan 1). Hunger is enough to spur me to eat, despite that it’s almost always miserable later after I eat. Desire to not starve, or eat when very hungry, is one of the strongest urges, though, which would seem to overcome pain. Perhaps that’s precisely what they mean. I’ll be observing my own sensations in relation to this.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThe article says hunger damps pain, not satiation.
- DaveSapien 9y agoI am a chronic sufferer, and in attempt to reduce my dependancy to opiates and opioids I put myself through a constant cycle of withdrawal. When I'm coming down I often have a craving for sugars and over eat. When high, I can go days without eating if not checked by a loved one. Overall I have lots a great deal of weight (including muscle mass), but I am very diligent about my diet. Others my find a craving of the sugars (in combination with a less than optimal diet), will result in a weight gain of fat and a reduction in lean mass. That is of coarse, if they go through times of withdrawal...