I'm a skinny minny by nature - 5 ft 4 and under 9 stone most of the time - and have Crohn's and IBS. Usually, I can happily miss meals (breakfast or lunch) and eat too many cakes, biscuits and chocolate to make up for it.
Until the New Year, I had been struggling to eat - no appetite and feeling sick at the thought of food.
However, in the last few weeks, I've gone completely the opposite and am hungry almost as soon as I've finished eating. I am having to eat as soon as I wake up, and then again less than 2 hours later, and so on throughout the day. I also wake up hungry in the early hours, which coincides with palpitations, adrenaline rush etc. I have to have protein bars to hand at all times!
The only times I've been like this before were during both pregnancies and when I was on steroids for Crohn's.
Hormones? It seemed to calm down last weekend, when my period arrived, but is back again.
Also, I'm getting spots. Not just on my face, but strange places like the nape of my neck. They are weird - no head as such, just painful lumps that take ages to heal.
My nails grow quite fast, but all of them have broken and flaked since last weekend.
Are these all peri related?