Anyone else experience Polyphagia/Hyperphagia after being floxed?
Polyphagia/Hyperphagia is an abnormally strong sensation of hunger or desire to eat.
Anyone find anything that helped this symptom?
Thanks
I have never had a strong stomach, but it has almost always been an issue with strong smells. A couple days after listening to the polyphagia episode I woke up to the sound of my cat crunching her way through the skull of a mouse. This is not the first time this has been issue for me but this is by far the most time it took me to stop fighting my gag reflex over trying to deal with her mouse hunting.
I am pretty experienced in suppressing my gag reflex, but this shit left me dry-heaving on and off for a half hour.
I think quarantine has kinda fucked my ability to cope with the unexpected.
Life, as it often does, surprised me very suddenly, and I found myself without a job, and shortly after that, without a home. I contested these circumstances as strongly as I could, and when my efforts proved fruitless, I accepted the circumstances as gracefully as my pride would allow. I did not have a wife, or children, and my own family had either passed away or were otherwise beyond my efforts of—or ignored my attempts at—contact.
My vagrancy began in Phoenix, Arizona, and when the uninhibited heat became intolerable—you could only remove so many layers—I migrated Northeastward to a cooler climate. It was in this new location that something which I can never forget happened; something profoundly more eye-opening in regards to the savagery of the world than mere unemployment and homelessness.
Re-located, yet still incredibly poor, I wandered around the city in my bumhood, begging where I could, and scavenging where I could not. I never stole—in the proper sense of the word—and only retrieved food and materials from discarded portions of restaurants, and the general refuse of apartments and businesses. It was easy to resort to crime during homelessness, and I saw many of my peers do so, but I could not bring myself to succumb that final, abysmal state of living. I knew that dying with “dignity” would be appreciated by no one, not even my rotting corpse, but I nonetheless was determined to do so if need be.
Luck, fortunately, came to me through the unexpected opportunity of sympathy, extended by a man twice my age—I was twenty-eight, then—and in the form of a job offer. Apparently, he had indeed noticed my refusal of more criminal methods of survival, and commended me for it. The general company I kept, out of defensive necessity from the non-homeless rather than any kind of kinship, resorted to crime often; leaving me behind, ignored, and unattended. I scrounged what I could, but only from sources that had no purpose beyond relocation to a larger site of garbage.
My general sect of homelessness occupied the same region as a Butcher’s shop/Deli, which the aforementioned man owned. He offered me a position, complete with training, and at the cost of my first month’s pay, set me up in a dingy but entirely livable apartment. Having no qualms against either prospect, I immediately accepted, and was thus elevated from destitution.
I learned the job quickly, and—having already possessed customer service skills—was placed more often in the front
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I have a 12 year old tabby (paying the cat tax) who is obsessed with food. I've had him since he was a kitten. Other than his asthma, he is in excellent physical heath. I'm currently treating his asthma with an inhaler.
Other cats:
He's lived with multiple cats (roommates, foster cats, etc) in the past, but we've also been through a few years where he is the only pet. Currently, my roommate has a cat (about 5 years old) and I adopted a kitten (cat tax) I was fostering because I love her (she's 4 months old now). I'm feeding my cats a combination of science diet wet and dry food. My roommate keeps her cat's food in her bedroom with the door closed, and we let him in and out frequently through out the day. The kitten sleeps in my bedroom at night where I leave a full bowl of food out. She will graze on it all night, never finishing all the food.
History:
He over eats if he's the only pet, and he over eats if he has friends to play with. I noticed this eating problem when he was about 2 years old. I would fill the bowl, and he would eat until he vomited, then he would go back and eat more. He wouldn't stop eating until all the food was gone, then he would proceed to beg. He once chewed through a bag of hard food while I was at work. I came home to a bloated cat and vomit all over the house. I keep the bags in a plastic container now.
Begging:
He starts begging about an hour after I feed him. He will approach my desk while I'm working, tap my legs with his paw, and rub against my legs for hours until I feed him again. He will follow me around the apartment, exist under me in the kitchen, run in front of me to trip or block me from walking away. I accidentally step on his paws or tail because he is, for lack of a better word, omnipresent.
What I've tried:
His vet does not think he is diabetic, so I've ruled that out. I've tried a water spray bottle to get him to leave me alone, but he comes back to continue begging after just a few minutes. I used to feed him 3oz twice a day. Now I feed him 1.5 oz 4(ish) times a day. I use puzzle/food dispensing toys, but he will come beg once they are empty. I have not tried an automatic feeder, but it doesn't seem to work in homes with multiple cats unless you buy the expensive RFID collars.
He's a very sweet kitty, but this food thing is making me crazy. Any advice would be ver
... keep reading on reddit ➡My therapist is very confident that I’ve successful worked through all my emotional eating triggers. But my physical hunger was still giving me difficulty. He suggested that I go and see the doctor to test for any condition that might be causing this. I was tested for diabetes and thankfully it was negative. But the doctors concluded that with my hypoglycemia that I most likely have Polyphagia. My appetite has recently skyrocketed. But they will not increase my vyvanse dose because it would be dangerous. But they told me that if I stay strong and ignore it it it might get better. But at least I have a diagnosis of what’s been causing my physical hunger problems. :)
Good day,
this year I'm going to embark on my first black bear hunt. Tactics will be stand and stalk. I plan on posting up near food sources and using calls to lure bears in. the areas I'll be looking to hunt have healthy populations of deer, so I'll be using fawn distress calls to lure them in during their Polyphagia.
currently I'm on the map scouting phase looking for good public land in Pennsylvania. Currently, I've narrowed my hunt down to 2 SGL's. things I know what to look for are dense forest, north facing slopes and water.
Next month, I want to move to the next phase of my scouting and covering some ground. What are some things to look out for, besides the obvious trails, tracks and scat?
Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.
If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.
Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???
Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.
Thank you,
A Dad.
Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.
They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.
I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.
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I heard parents named their children lance a lot.
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10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too
A buck-an-ear!
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Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!
He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.
Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:
Riceless
That was the punchline
Content warning: topics relating to eating disorders, animal cruelty, anatomical and bodily function detail, and the possible death of a child
Most of what little we know about the French showman, vagrant and spy known as “Tarrare” stems from an 1805 scientific paper by Doctor Pierre-François Percy entitled Mémoire sur la polyphagie, published in Journal de médecine, chirurgie, pharmacie, no. 9 (Oct./Nov. 1804), and adapted with some minor additions and extra details as part of a review of polyphagia cases in the London Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 42 (July–Dec.1819).
His precise date of birth is unknown, but based on his estimated age at death, Tarrare was likely born somewhere around 1772. He was a child of farm-working peasants in the Lyon area.
Appetite and Physical Abnormalities
As a young boy, Tarrare developed an abnormally immense and ravenous appetite that increased with age. By his teens, he was able to eat up to a quarter beef in a single day, an amount roughly equal to his own body weight.
Despite his vast food consumption, Tarrare was not overweight -- and, conversely, seems to have been rather slight, possibly even below normal weight based on the contemporary descriptions -- but had an unusual amount of skin hanging loose around his abdomen, which could be pulled and stretched right around his waist when lax.
When he had eaten an exceptionally large amount, which he did whenever he could, his stomach would swell up with the mass of food inside, and the loose skin would bulge and become taut like that of a heavily pregnant woman. The food would later be expelled as huge amounts of diarrhoea “foetid beyond all conception”.
Additionally, Tarrare’s body was hot to the touch and often slicked in sweat. “A vapour [...] sensible to the sight and even moreso to the smell” arose from his skin, and “he often stank to such a degree, that he could not be endured within the distance of twenty paces.”
The Sideshow Years
With his family unable to financially support such a hungry mouth in their midst, by the age of 17, he was out on his own, living itinerantly, and scavenging constantly for scraps, animal carcasses, and rotting offal in middens and dumps behind abattoirs and butcher shops.
Eventually, his bizarre affliction attracted a group of criminals, pimps and street performers who offered him a job as a travelling freakshow. His performance involved standing on the st
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My cat's obsession with food is driving me insane. Please help.
I have a 12 year old tabby (paying the cat tax) who is obsessed with food. I've had him since he was a kitten. Other than his asthma, he is in excellent physical heath. I'm currently treating his asthma with an inhaler. He is neutered and weighs 12 lbs. We live in Denver, Colorado.
Other cats:
He's lived with multiple cats (roommates, foster cats, etc) in the past, but we've also been through a few years where he is the only pet. Currently, my roommate has a cat (about 5 years old) and I adopted a kitten (cat tax) I was fostering because I love her (she's 4 months old now). I'm feeding my cats a combination of science diet wet and dry food. My roommate keeps her cat's food in her bedroom with the door closed, and we let him in and out frequently through out the day. The kitten sleeps in my bedroom at night where I leave a full bowl of food out. She will graze on it all night, never finishing all the food.
History:
He over eats if he's the only pet, and he over eats if he has friends to play with. I noticed this eating problem when he was about 2 years old. I would fill the bowl, and he would eat until he vomited, then he would go back and eat more. He wouldn't stop eating until all the food was gone, then he would proceed to beg. He once chewed through a bag of hard food while I was at work. I came home to a bloated cat and vomit all over the house. I keep the bags in a plastic container now.
Begging:
He starts begging about an hour after I feed him. He will approach my desk while I'm working, tap my legs with his paw, and rub against my legs for hours until I feed him again. He will follow me around the apartment, exist under me in the kitchen, run in front of me to trip or block me from walking away. I accidentally step on his paws or tail because he is, for lack of a better word, omnipresent.
What I've tried:
His vet does not think he is diabetic, so I've ruled that out. I've tried a water spray bottle to get him to leave me alone, but he comes back to continue begging after just a few minutes. I used to feed him 3oz twice a day. Now I feed him 1.5 oz 4(ish) times a day. I use puzzle/food dispensing toys, but he will come beg once they are empty. I have not tried an automatic feeder, but it doesn't seem to work in homes with multiple cats unless you buy the expensive RFID collars.
He's a very sweet kitty,
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