Anybody have any experience with Pica?
I used to eat ice like crazy. I thought it was normal. I would always have one of those big coffee mug thingys filled with ice. It took my mother saying that she didn't think it was normal to eat as much ice as I did for me to even think anything was wrong with it.
I also used to eat toilet paper. Crazy, huh? After a while, I thought so, too, and told my gastro. He just laughed at me. I was soooo mad:ymad: I had opened myself to him and he made me feel like a fool. Well, the month after that I was at the hematologist's office. When I told him my concerns about the ice and the tp, he nodded his head knowingly and told me that Pica is sometimes found with iron deficiency anemia. After many iron iv infusions (which I start again this Wednesday, every Wednesday for two months) I stopped craving ice and tp. Now that the iron levels have dropped, I am back on the tp. Hopefully, not for long, haha!
I like the off-brands. So my wife will buy one off-brand roll of tp for me to munch on, and the regular tp for regular use. What a wonderful woman!
Anyone else experience Pica?
EDIT: I changed gastros because of this and his generally uncaring attitude.
I used to eat ice like crazy. I thought it was normal. I would always have one of those big coffee mug thingys filled with ice. It took my mother saying that she didn't think it was normal to eat as much ice as I did for me to even think anything was wrong with it.
I also used to eat toilet paper. Crazy, huh? After a while, I thought so, too, and told my gastro. He just laughed at me. I was soooo mad:ymad: I had opened myself to him and he made me feel like a fool. Well, the month after that I was at the hematologist's office. When I told him my concerns about the ice and the tp, he nodded his head knowingly and told me that Pica is sometimes found with iron deficiency anemia. After many iron iv infusions (which I start again this Wednesday, every Wednesday for two months) I stopped craving ice and tp. Now that the iron levels have dropped, I am back on the tp. Hopefully, not for long, haha!
I like the off-brands. So my wife will buy one off-brand roll of tp for me to munch on, and the regular tp for regular use. What a wonderful woman!
Anyone else experience Pica?
EDIT: I changed gastros because of this and his generally uncaring attitude.
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