This is definitely me. I never feel hungry in the morning until I’m nauseous. Fortunately, my wife found these protein bars at Costco that are pretty good. I’ve been packing one of those with me to work and i eat it just as I’m starting to feel gross (or all the coffee starts tearing up my stomach). Small enough that I don’t feel more sick, but enough food to get me through the rest of the day.
I think it’s a Costco brand one, it’s a chewy peanut butter and dark chocolate bar
The only way I know it’s time to eat is when I start feeling sick, and then the only way I can get myself to eat is by forcing the munchies with a bunch of weed.
Aren’t bodies fun?! 😬
Sometimes I get days where my brain ignores the nausea signals too and just lets me function worse and worse until it’s so bad that I notice that I didn’t eat in hours.
Nausea signal means your blood sugar is low. At least… that’s what it means for me. First time it happened, I was out all day playing paintball. Around 4 we stopped to go home and I was feeling nauseous as hell, went to a payphone to call my mom and have her come get me, throwing up mid-phone call. She thought I was just faking and told me to walk. But I felt so tired. I sat down and fell asleep for a little bit. Got up and started going home. Kept throwing up, and passing out. My best friend ran into me while skateboarding over to my house and I told him how I felt so he mashed off to my house to get my mom to take me seriously, but before they got back I guess someone called 911 and an ambulance showed up and checked me out. Had a blood sugar level of like 20 or something ridiculous on the meter and they gave me some juice and told me to get home and eat. Now any time I feel hunger pangs at all, I eat something.
Many people with ADHD simply don’t feel hunger as much as neurotypical people so we get nausea because of hunger when we happen to not eat for too long by accident.
No idea, I learned a lot of things simply by reading experiences of people on r/ADHD and now c/ADHD. Check the wiki, maybe there’s something on the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/wiki/index/
That’s me every morning!! Who needs breakfast anyway?
I find fruit juice gets me over the nausea. Think it might be a sugar thing.
Dehydration can also cause nausea, but I haven’t had success with only drinking water for breakfast.
Plain water can be hard for your body to do anything with especially if it’s cold and your body has to warm it up first. But no salts or sugars can mean it’s hard for your body to absorb it. You really should attempt some fiber or protein as well and give your stomach acid something to work on.
OH.MY.GOD!!! I thought I was crazy because I don’t know anyone else that actually hates eating breakfast like I do. It’s like a mild nausea, and even the smell of breakfast food makes me repulsed from associating it with eating in the morning. I had no idea it was related to ADHD. Wowwwwwwwww 😮
Ugh, add in chronic nausea from migraine and it’s a joy. My nausea level, hunger level, and desire to eat are all disconnected. But they all have to align if I want to successfully eat. So much fun. All hail Zofran.
