My appetite came roaring back and the pharmacy tech just shrugged

2026-10-08 20:17

Been on this since last spring, about fourteen months, and somewhere near the start of this month the quiet just... left. Noticed it on a Tuesday, of all days. Ate my whole lunch at work, ten went hunting through the bottom drawer for the crackers I've been ignoring since February.

So I called my little pharmacy on Main — two ladies, one phone line, you know the place — and asked if anyone else had mentioned this. She was sweet as pie but basically said everybody's different, hon.

Also mentioned my insurance won't touch anything different without a fresh prior auth, which sounds like a whole afternoon of forms I'm not ready for. It's not that I'm hungry like before I started.

It's more like somebody turned the volume knob back to normal and I forgot how loud normal is. My appetite notes in the log look like two different people wrote them. Anyone else had the meds go quiet without changing a thing? Did it ease back, or is this just where I live now?

2026-10-17 13:37

hi, I’m brand new here — only week one — so I feel a bit silly jumping in, but this is exactly the kind of thing I’m nervous about. I started a tiny notes-app log: hunger 1–5, what I ate, sleep, and stress, just to see patterns.

Did you happen to look back at the week before that Tuesday? I’d be curious whether anything shifted — sleep, work stress, travel, even a colder — because “the quiet left” is such a good way to put it.

Also, did the pharmacy tech say anything at all, or just shrug? Sorry if that’s too many questions.

2026-10-19 19:40

Not the newbie here, but one thing I’d check before blaming the med: has your training load or sleep changed this month? When I added a fourth squat/deadlift day and was averaging 6.5 hrs, my appetite went feral with everything else identical.

I track weekly avg weight, waist, and protein hit rate; if weight/waist are flat and lifts are climbing, that’s recomp demand, not the quiet “failing.” If waist is trending up, I tighten the boring stuff—protein at breakfast, 8k steps, no drawer crackers in the house. Did the hunger hit all day, or mostly after training/evening?