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Apr. 1st, 2018 21:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillThe med I was trying out week before last (Arava) gave me a bunch of mild side effects, and a general creeping sensation of something wrong. The fatigue and dizziness finally got to the point where I stopped taking it, but it was a gradual-build-up drug that takes a while to ramp down. I knew that when I started it: two weeks to 100%, two weeks to come off. I only took it for a week, so one week after stopping, I'm getting back to normal.
It had killed my appetite, which was hard to miss. Normally, when I barely eat, my metabolism crashes and I get a really bad inflammatory flare, but that didn't happen. Since it also didn't happen while I was doing well last summer (and lost a bunch of weight), I wasn't too worried... but it didn't feel right.
I just found out why. All day I have been ravenously hungry, and I'm getting some unusual cravings. Apparently the reason my metabolism didn't crash (like this) earlier was that my body had deferred necessary maintenance, and now it's recovered to the point where it's looking at the backlog and saying "HEY!" It needs a variety of building materials to fix everything. Thus my cravings for feta cheese, for raisins, for orange marmalade, for bread.
I know that I live in a state of perpetual convalescence, which is why anything that messes with my calorie intake makes me wary. I guess this is just another case in point.
It had killed my appetite, which was hard to miss. Normally, when I barely eat, my metabolism crashes and I get a really bad inflammatory flare, but that didn't happen. Since it also didn't happen while I was doing well last summer (and lost a bunch of weight), I wasn't too worried... but it didn't feel right.
I just found out why. All day I have been ravenously hungry, and I'm getting some unusual cravings. Apparently the reason my metabolism didn't crash (like this) earlier was that my body had deferred necessary maintenance, and now it's recovered to the point where it's looking at the backlog and saying "HEY!" It needs a variety of building materials to fix everything. Thus my cravings for feta cheese, for raisins, for orange marmalade, for bread.
I know that I live in a state of perpetual convalescence, which is why anything that messes with my calorie intake makes me wary. I guess this is just another case in point.
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Date: 2018-04-02 19:06 (UTC)