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Anyone get that feeling of pure euphoria/ecstasy after eating following a period of malnourishment? What is that?? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently went for a period of about 1.5 months in which I was eating very little due to some psych trauma work I was doing and a lifelong history of ARFID. I eventually started to get symptoms of malnourment and decided to get it under control. On the first day, I had a smoothie, a multivitamin, and an iron supplement. Sometime about 1-3 hours after that, I started to get weird chills like when peeing after holding it in for a while, but also wanting to stretch. Then, I just started feeling FANTASTIC. Not good as in I was miserable and now I'm fine. I'm talking about better than the peak of the best orgasm I've ever had. This lasted for about 20-30 mins. I was just rubbing my skin and stretching my muscles, which would activate it even more. I had never experienced that, nor had I ever heard anyone share that they've experienced something similar.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Also, what the heck was that??

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I’ve gotten a milder version of this when doing a very intense physical job day after day and then eating a huge dinner at the end and replenishing all nutrients. I called it “the belly orgasm.”

I’m just guessing / triangulating that what you experienced is further down the same road but to me it makes sense. The body in survival mode behaves very differently to the body in “everything on my end is all good, no real feedback, brain’s in charge currently” mode.