Isn't it werid the way the herb combos can totally alter your appetite? In my early treatment I was like sooooooooo starving and that was like 20 minutes after I ate. I ate ginormous amounts of food like i had a tapeworm and I kept losing weight. So frustrating yet right now I am quite the opposite- I am not hungry or thirsty and I have to guide myself to food and water. I wonder - maybe the ginseng does something to your metabolism? in any event I have been on ginseng and it did not necessarily do that to me for me I was STARVING on the goldenseal oil of oregano.   I think  you just got to roll with it and give your body what it needs. I recall after awhile I stopped having the SUPER appetite and it was the same formula. It seemed to be not so much the actual formula itself but how my body was adapting to and with the formula- it eventually planed out or we changed something and I was not so ravenous anymore. the ginseng can act as an amplifier to the other herbs you are taking sometimes. I think it depends on how you are using it in combos and what dosage to get certain effects? not to mention it has its own special effects alone. So I'm thinking it just activated things in some way for you- maybe it like increased your digestion powers or maybe you just need extra nutrients right now. in any event you are doing the right thing by giving your body what it needs! Matia has told me that IC patients aren't always absorbing all the nutrients they take in so that's why we can eat so much and not really sometimes gain or lose weight. I don't know if that was helpful but I hear you- it can be really disconcerting to eat so much and think- why is this happening? where is this this overflowing plates of food going?

Isn't it werid the way the herb combos can totally alter your appetite? In my early treatment I was like sooooooooo starving and that was like 20 minutes after I ate. I ate ginormous amounts of food like i had a tapeworm and I kept losing weight. So frustrating yet right now I am quite the opposite- I am not hungry or thirsty and I have to guide myself to food and water. I wonder - maybe the ginseng does something to your metabolism? in any event I have been on ginseng and it did not necessarily do that to me for me I was STARVING on the goldenseal oil of oregano.   I think  you just got to roll with it and give your body what it needs. I recall after awhile I stopped having the SUPER appetite and it was the same formula. It seemed to be not so much the actual formula itself but how my body was adapting to and with the formula- it eventually planed out or we changed something and I was not so ravenous anymore. the ginseng can act as an amplifier to the other herbs you are taking sometimes. I think it depends on how you are using it in combos and what dosage to get certain effects? not to mention it has its own special effects alone. So I'm thinking it just activated things in some way for you- maybe it like increased your digestion powers or maybe you just need extra nutrients right now. in any event you are doing the right thing by giving your body what it needs! Matia has told me that IC patients aren't always absorbing all the nutrients they take in so that's why we can eat so much and not really sometimes gain or lose weight. I don't know if that was helpful but I hear you- it can be really disconcerting to eat so much and think- why is this happening? where is this this overflowing plates of food going?

Isn't it werid the way the herb combos can totally alter your appetite? In my early treatment I was like sooooooooo starving and that was like 20 minutes after I ate. I ate ginormous amounts of food like i had a tapeworm and I kept losing weight. So frustrating yet right now I am quite the opposite- I am not hungry or thirsty and I have to guide myself to food and water. I wonder - maybe the ginseng does something to your metabolism? in any event I have been on ginseng and it did not necessarily do that to me for me I was STARVING on the goldenseal oil of oregano.   I think  you just got to roll with it and give your body what it needs. I recall after awhile I stopped having the SUPER appetite and it was the same formula. It seemed to be not so much the actual formula itself but how my body was adapting to and with the formula- it eventually planed out or we changed something and I was not so ravenous anymore. the ginseng can act as an amplifier to the other herbs you are taking sometimes. I think it depends on how you are using it in combos and what dosage to get certain effects? not to mention it has its own special effects alone. So I'm thinking it just activated things in some way for you- maybe it like increased your digestion powers or maybe you just need extra nutrients right now. in any event you are doing the right thing by giving your body what it needs! Matia has told me that IC patients aren't always absorbing all the nutrients they take in so that's why we can eat so much and not really sometimes gain or lose weight. I don't know if that was helpful but I hear you- it can be really disconcerting to eat so much and think- why is this happening? where is this this overflowing plates of food going?

Yeah, my husband thinks I'm a pig!, LOL. Sometimes I pile so much on my plate and then am so embarrassed afterwards to feel hungry!  For me, every time I increased the SF more the hunger increases... it only petered out after she added another herb to the mix but kept the SF high level.  Though sometimes I just feel super hungry still.
My faux-pregnant belly certainly doesn't look hungry! Ugh, gross.

ahhh me too.  im a food maniac!  my mom is always concerned when i come home that im not feeding myself! hah.  this treatment is so weird.

I've been on both american and siberian ginsengs and always had major increase in appetite.  I would eat and then 1 hr later feel like I had never eaten and couldn't wait to eat again.  Other herbs combos have made me feel like this too but don't compare to the hunger I get with ginseng herbs.  I don't remember if it went down after a while of being on them but I guess it's normal.