u/Middle-Friendship154

Hunger/fullness cues

So I have been on concerta 36mg and if I'm being honest it took so long for me to figure out a routine that makes it ACTUALLY WORK

But there's this very strange side effect that I can't decide whether it is a loss of appetite or a general inability to decide what I'm feeling. I have no idea if I'm hungry or not most of the time. I'm not disgusted by food like some people are when they lose their appetite on meds (tbh I have experienced that once but the food was genuinely gross then), like I can just grab the food, eat it , stop whenever I want and I don't feel any different from before. I don't even feel full.

I'm kind of struggling to identify whether this is just me being used to rely on dopamine to mark the feeling of fullness so now it feels weird that I don't experience it anymore, but shouldn't I also feel something else ? I don't feel anything at all😭

If I had to describe it would be like having a mysterious void in my stomach that would absord whatever I feed it with absolutely no end goal.

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u/Middle-Friendship154 — 16 hours ago